Belt hack
This morning at work, my belt broke. It’s one of those lame reversible belts that people like me love, and evidently I’d reversed it one to many times. The buckle severed itself from the rest of the belt, making it pretty worthless.
In this situation, I could have made a quick dash to the mall to buy a replacement. But I was busy. And I’m resoucreful. So I hacked it:
Now you’re probably thinking “that looks terrible” and you’re right. But there are a few important considerations. First, this belt hack required all of one rubber band and about 60 seconds. Second, when I put the belt back on you could hardly tell it was broken. Check it out:
Not bad, I say.
[Epilogue: Don't worry, I'm not a total bum--I purchased a new belt after work today.]
Filed under hack, work : Comments (1) : Jul 23rd, 2007 by tadfad
July 25th, 2007 at 12:17 am
My nice thin black belt I would wear to the office with my business casual attire started breaking maybe two weeks ago (the plastic-y material cracked in a way real leather probably would not) and I continued to tape it together and wear it to work, even though the tape started to show as layer after layer was added. I finally just bought a new belt over the weekend - and it’s reversible! Is it black? Or is it brown? Oh my god it’s both!
Nice work saving your belt.