ReadyMade: Instructions for everyday life

1. Dismantle the headphones and remove the speakers.

2. Use a pin to poke a small hole in each of two playing cards, then glue the speakers to the cards, lining up each speaker with the hole.

3. Use the awl to poke a hole in the back of each tin, then thread the speaker wire through the holes.

4. Reconnect the wires by twisting them together and burning the plastic coating off with a lighter. Then tape them off

5. Place the foam padding from the headphones inside the tins, open side up, to cushion the speakers.

6. Trim the cards to fit inside the tins, place them inside (use glue if necessary), and crank it, dog. The sound’s a little tinny, but loud enough for making out.

Next Up:
Berry Useful Baskets

AUTHOR: Anthony Discenza

As the blazing summer sun bores through the ever-depleting ozone, we’ll be cooling our underwear in the fridge and avoiding any activity more strenuous than sipping a daiquiri. We don’t want any of you working too hard either, so let’s keep things light for next issue’s MacGyver.

We’ve availed ourselves of fresh strawberries, that first herald of summer harvest, by loading up on several boxes’ worth. We applied copious quantities of cream and nestled them in those little sponge cakes made for this sort of thing. But it wasn’t until much later, gorged and insensate, that we realized we had literally dozens of green plastic baskets, growers’ containers of choice for not just berries of every variety, but also for toybox tomatoes, button mushrooms, and other, less-identifiable flora found in today’s increasingly imported produce sections.

There they sit, stacked up in a neat pile, with no conscionable place to go. So it’s up to you, reader, to bail us out of this mesh with one of the clever, elegant, and supremely functional solutions we’ve come to expect from you. Submissions due by July 24th. The ripest of the bunch wins a free subscription and a ReadyMade T-shirt.

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