Everyone Will Be Saving Cardboard When They See This Genius Idea!

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  @HAXMAN · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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  @homeloveeverything2932 · 2 years ago

  For those of you with kids… My family didn’t have much money when I was a kid. &nbsp;So many of my friends were given Barbie houses for Christmas. &nbsp;I wanted one but my parents couldn’t afford it. &nbsp;I then came up with an idea when I went with my mom to go grocery shopping. &nbsp;I convinced her to let me bring home 8 boxes the store didn’t need that used to hold canned goods. &nbsp;I glued those boxes together, used my mom’s scrap fabric, used popsicle sticks, etc… I learned to look at things with a creative mind. &nbsp;I ended up building the coolest and best Barbie doll house ever. &nbsp;The neighborhood girls liked mine much more than their store bought ones. &nbsp;Two years later I babysat for some kids. &nbsp;The little girl wanted a dollhouse, but her family didn’t have the money for it. &nbsp;I surprised her one day when my brother helped me walk my homemade Barbie house over to her. &nbsp;This little girl was so thankful!

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  @DanVogt · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m a prop maker, here&apos;s how I would approach it. First stick, with any kind of tape, crumpled balls of newspaper (various sizes, anywhere from the size of a marble to a Bible) to the cardboard boxes, then wrap the form in chicken wire (zip ties to connect segments) THEN hit it with a mallet /hammer. This will retain the organic deformations best. Then plaster gause wrap two layers over the chicken wire. Hair dryer will set it in 5 mins. The result will be a feather light plaster form and you can reuse the boxes for the next one, even the chicken wire if you put a plastic dam in between. Then apply the cement (less dry volume will mean it doesn&apos;t set so fast, dry, or have to be applied so hurried, as you did, to keep it above the chicken wire - my method will save ingredients, money, &nbsp;and be vastly lighter). Concrete additives can be used for added strength (perhaps avoid fibreglass in favour of natural fibres like straw/ hemp or heshen cloth are all great). You can make the form complete (without an open base/hole) to give it more surface structural tension thus stress is better displaced. Optionally apply a texture with a rubber stamp (or I personally would just roll another stone over it to make the impression, stamping it to look real, talc to stop it sticking). That&apos;s how I would have approached it.

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  @powertothesheeple5422 · 2 years ago

  😂 I&apos;ve been slowly dragging boulders about this size off my yard and into the woods for the past 2 years. Maybe I need to put them up on marketplace 🤔

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  @shirleyl5582 · 1 year ago

  I am building a boulder over a tree stump. &nbsp;When I got the price for grinding the stump I thought there had to be a better way, remembered this video and will save a couple hundred bucks to cover the stump with one of your beautiful boulders!!!!

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  @maryfisher9888 · 2 years ago

  Probably someone already said this, but if you make a wet slurry with cement or that mix and dip some pieces of an old bedsheet or rags in it, then you can drape it over your cardboard or chicken wire, and use less mix. I had a friend who made garden statues this way.

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  @jwiki1 · 2 years ago

  I believe that those of us who don’t have a lot of money are the people with the best creative ideas. It’s awesome!!

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  @rubentagaban8861 · 2 years ago (edited)

  One small suggestion that worked great for me: &nbsp; After setting up the chicken wire, I covered the entire set up with wet newspaper. It prevented the wet mortar mix from falling thru the chicken wire, and the moisture helped the mortar stick faster. The newspaper was a cheap way to get the job done.

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  @GospodinJean · 1 year ago

  Now, dig a secret undeground bunker and use fake rocks as air intake holes and doors

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  @patriciabush4590 · 2 years ago

  Because I&apos;m a weak little 5 ft 77 yr old woman I&apos;d probably make it pretty close to where I want it. Thanks for this fun project for my flower garden.

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  @ashtonbrumbaugh6853 · 2 years ago

  Idk why the YouTube algorithm recommended this to me, but dude, I&apos;m glad it did. Didn&apos;t even care about the rock even though that is a cool method. Your guy&apos;s vibe is just awesome

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  @whatsupdoc3385 · 2 years ago

  Own a pool management company and started making rocks for clients a few years ago... Through trial and error I found skip the boxes, use zip ties and chicken wire to get your shape, then paper mache the whole thing a few coats let dry in-between, and the mortar over the whole thing. I can do a dozen at a time start to finish in one day easily. Allows the h to build and fit them together at the same time.

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