A weird use for guinea pig cages!

Funny you should mention that, because putting one together (as a storage unit, like so) is how I broke my fingertip :doh: still worth it though, it's very useful.
 
Ouch! Well thankfully no humans or animals were harmed in the building of this set!
 
One of the connectors (not one I was actually pushing on, either, it was weird) snapped back onto my fingers with a considerable amount of force. Freak accident, but I didn't get it checked out at the time because I thought it was just bruised. That was in October, lol, I should've had it seen. Still put the rest of it together the following day and it's now a DVD rack/spare fleece holder/router stand/something else I can't remember. And it balances well on my uneven floors too.
 
Ow ow ow. I've broken a finger once and didn't realise it. In my case it was from falling out of a bus, I broke my left little finger but it wasn't obvious. The joint doesn't really straighten all the way, it's been like that ever since.
 
Yeah, whatever damage I did was at the top knuckle (which is where it pinged off), I showed my mum a photo because I was trying to explain why something so small was giving me grief and she's like "Hmm, that looks like my arthritis." I think that means she no longer assumes I'm being overdramatic 🤷‍♂️ There's an obvious lump, but no swelling.
I had no idea how much I used the index finger on my non-dominant hand til I did it, lol, turns out you use it for quite a bit! Makes it fun trying to refill my vapes or open childproof caps.

Edit: and if you don't mind my saying, "falling out of a bus" is a great excuse for breaking something, and certainly better than "getting pinged by a piece of plastic" :))
 
😂 I feel I have to clarify that the bus wasn't moving. I was trying to get out at my stop and took the quick way down.
 
Homestead Mom said:
My “cage” was given to me as a shelf set. Now that I have the gp, I can only find 7 pieces, and three connectors. I’m not giving up finding the rest though.
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Keep the faith. My husband just found a connector in the compost. In the finished compost, that is, and we haven't been emptying it so it must have been there a year or two!
 
Cheekypigs said:
Did you know you can make shelves out of them? And keep things in them?

Can't remember where I came across this mad idea, but I decided to give it a try. Amazing the things people think of, isn't it?
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I read somewhere that the grids were originally made for this type of storage rack. Someone came up with the clever idea that they would make cages and added Corex as a liner.
I have a rack made from spare grids in the cupboard under the stairs to store piggie fleece and bags of food. The grids certainly come in very useful!
 
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