You’ve heard of girl math and girl dinner, but do you know about girl tools? These are simply things females use to get the job done, even if they were never intended for that purpose. If you ever fixed your glasses with eyelash glue or opened a wine bottle with a Bic pen, you did it with girl tools.
A post on Threads of women sharing the ways they use girl tools has gone viral. Grace Laubenthal asked the Women in STEM community for their favorites after revealing, “I once used a bottle of lotion to nail a tapestry to my ceiling.” Thousands have posted their ingenious girl tools and these are some of the best.
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- “Need to crush spices? Can of beans. Hammer something? Can of beans. Weigh some fabric down? Can of beans. Light arm workout? Can of beans. Still a couple inches from reaching something up high? Can…of…beans.”
- “I keep my chainsaw tools in a @lululemon bag.”
- “If you haven’t used a butter knife as a screwdriver, I don’t trust you.”
- “Girl measuring tape is my favorite. Hold your hands this far apart and walk from the item to the space where you want to fit the item. It’s fool proof! (It’s not but that won’t stop me)”
- “Girl I once lost my keys and broke into my house with a broken piece of frisbee that my dog had eaten and sh*t out in the front yard.”
- “I’ve ironed a shirt with my Chi flat iron.”
- “I keep an airport mini bottle in my tool box to use as a level.”
- “Does using a jack to turn a ratchet because the lug nuts were on too tight count?”
- “I use a muffin tin to keep small parts separated—and present and accounted for—while assembling things.”
- “Used nail polish and my mini UV light to color match a scratch on my nephews new motorcycle after insurances quoted him $300. Can’t even see it anymore”
- “I’m a girl from Germany, so I can open a bottle of beer with nearly anything. Sheet of paper is my favorite.”
- “It’s not MacGyvering, it’s MacGirlvering!”
Source: Scary Mommy
