Five Minute Trash

 5 Minute Crafts has what I think they called a "parenting" hack of making a hat out of sponges (I cannot find the video at the moment) so children don't bump their heads on things, and I may not be a parent, but I am an oversized child so I figured it would apply to me. I used double-sided tape for this one instead of the glue they used. I consider this a success. I will no longer bump my forehead on random corners. My brains are secure, so naturally, it is time to test how secure. I joke. I didn't go smashing my head into things.

 I found this  maxi pad hack  entertaining. Feminine products are health-related, so it's fitting for one to be repurposed as an ice pack, but it's also... strange. I appreciate the strangeness. I also appreciate that 5 Minute Crafts implies you may have a syringe lying around, much like my mother. I didn't believe she had one on hand until she pulled it out, but she's a nurse, so it makes some sense. Here are my syringe and maxi pads. I did what the clip suggested and injected the maxi pad with water, as shown here: I did not hurt my foot to test whether the final product worked, but I did freeze it, and what was supposed to happen more or less did happen. It was cold, and all that, and I suspect it would work if it had to.

  5 Minute's Sunglasses  are admittedly clever, though odd. However, I had a hard time recreating them because it was tough to get anything to set correctly for as many markers as I tried. I used EZstart Duck tape and attempted to use the following markers to darken the tape. The last is a Pentel Color Pen Fine Point #S360-118. It's difficult to read. My sunglasses were not as nearly as effective as theirs looked, and as I was making them, the tape tore, which kind of sucks. I did my best. This was the final product. I'd like to try another day again to see if I get anywhere closer to what they show in the video. I was so focused on wondering what it would be like to wear them I forgot I wear glasses ordinarily. I couldn't see a great deal without those, and the tape shades were a bit like a child had scribbled on my eyes, so overall, the experience was disappointing.

The Original Hotdog Straw 5 Minute Crafts has this absurd hack where they use a raw hotdog (they call it a sausage, and to be perfectly honest, I couldn't tell you the difference) as a wine straw after drilling a hole in it. I decided to recreate this. I cooked a Teton Water's Ranch hotdog rather than leaving it raw. Drinking from raw meat sounds like a good way to get sick somehow. I also substituted a metal straw for the drill they used in the video to remove the core of the hotdog. Using a drill the way they did looked pretty dangerous, and I want to keep my fingers, though using a straw to create a worse version of one is a bit circular and silly. These sorts of hacks are not designed to be thought about anyhow. The hotdog was a bit... hotdog-like, and it was difficult to push the straw through, especially around the midpoint where there were a few fork holes in the hotdog from the grilling process that started leaking meat juice as the straw was inserted. I wound up poking