Category: Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies
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Plastic Pipe Furniture
Making Plastic Pipe Furniture Alth 1981 Submitter: This book has finally stopped checking out at our library so I can gladly weed it. This furniture probably IS cheap and easy to make (make your own plastic dining room table and chairs!), but I have to disagree with the author’s assertion…
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Everybody In the Tub
Hot Tubs: How to Build, Maintain & Enjoy Your Own Elder 1975 Submitter: This book, acquired in 1976, was weeded from a community college library. One can only guess if the reason this book was part of the collection was that there was a Wood Technics program at the time.…
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Good Clean Fun – Soap Carving!
Soap Sculpture Gaba 1969 Submitter: Okay, first off, I always thought soap-carving was something of a joke–something that you hear about, but in which nobody ever actually engaged. I think the only real reference to soap-carving I ever saw was a “Peanuts” cartoon where Linus was describing to Charlie Brown…
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Let’s Play Indians
Let’s Be Indians Parish 1962 This book is still in reasonable shape given its age, although it probably hasn’t been touched since I snagged it for this website. Maybe it slipped through the cracks on weeding since the call number on the spine was wrong. (Weak excuse, but I will…
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Make-it Book
McCall’s Giant Golden Make-it Book Peter 1953 I am so glad several university libraries are holding on to this relic. This just screams 1950s. It still is in some school libraries holdings and I wonder how well it must be holding up after a nearly sixty years. Of course it…
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Pop Topping
Pop-Topping Pop-Top Terp, Patton, and Freeman 1975 Submitter: I’m a librarian for a community college and recently weeded this book, which I found so ridiculous and enjoyable that I kept it for myself. The covers are great; the photos inside are unbelievable! These people were so crazy about pop-topping that…
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