What happens when your favourite tennis ball passes away?

No. It doesn’t go to tennis heaven. Instead, it reinvents itself for the betterment of mankind.

All you need are two things: a pen knife and creativity.

1. Chair mufflers

Absolutely hate the screeching noise your chair makes when it goes across the room? Or more importantly, hate those scratch marks on your parquet floor? Consider it solved.

2. Childproof EVERYTHING

Why spend money on corner guards when you can give corners a little bit more balls? Slit open the ball and push it right into that sharp corner. Voila, no more nasty bruises.

3. Protector of walls

Doors slamming into the wall? Paint starts to peel or worse, a crater is slowly forming? Time to protect your walls by slamming a tennis ball (slice a third off the ball first) into a doorknob.

4. Jar opener

There are days when jars just won’t open, no matter how hard you try to twist them.

Banish those days with this nifty trick.

Puncture the ball and cut along the seams. You should get something like a “U”.

5. Stress ball

No instructions needed.

6. Paper weight

Cut a slit and pour sand or small stones into ball. Seal the ball with tape. Goodbye flying papers.

7. Holder of things

Cut a slit and the ball transform into:

Coin holder, photo holder, key holder. You name it, the tennis ball will hold it.

8. Massager

What you need: long sock and old tennis ball. How: Put tennis ball into sock, use it like you are drying your back after a shower. Why: Shiok and cheap.

No long sock? Just the tennis ball will do. Roll it under your foot or on your back against the

floor/wall. Still shiok and cheap.

9. Floor cleaner

Because of its felt surface, the ball is a good scruff cleaner on wooden floors. Cut a “X” and stick it into a broomstick and scrub along.

10. Tea light holder

Want to add a romantic feel to the room. Tennis balls to the rescue again. Cut the tennis ball in

half, glue it to a tray or nice wooden block. Put in your tealights. Light the flame. Play some Lionel Ritchie songs. We got feels.

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