My dad is MacGyver

Even before going green, recycling, and reusing became a byword my father was already into it. My dad is really obsessed about not bringing too much trash in the house so he made a shopping bag out of old denim jeans. Its very practical because we wont be lagging too many plasticbags around and we can refuse it as much as we can. And with the plastic bags that we managed to bring home, we keep them in one place for reuse later. Or one of my aunt would bring whatever we have saved and use it to wrap the fruits she sells.

Then there were the wooden toy cars he made for us. He'd gather the small wood remnants from somewhere or from his own projects and his saw and hammer it into very sturdy toy trucks. As for the wheels, he'd iether reuse those he found from somewhere or fasion it from old rubber flipflops. He'd then use left over paint to color it. And added mudguards and paltenumbers. It would then be an object of envy in the nieghborhood with kids who only had plastics for toy cars (which we couldnt afford by the way). They would'nt dare laugh at our toys coz if they would we'd challenge them to a mash up which we know their plastic toys wouldnt be able to withstand. I'll ask my dad to make one so i can take a photo of it and post it here.

And speaking of flipflops. We go around in flipflops and most of the time the what-ever-they-call-it that goes around your toes gets broken first. What'd he do? He replaced it with rope. How's that? It was really cool coz nobody else in the neighborhood had anything like that and we knew no matter how rocky the mountains we will be traversing it will never give way. Anyway i saw this summer of love eras photo of my dad he was wearing the same kind of flipflops that he fixed for us.

Then he brought us beach combing for discarded bottles, plastics and soda cans one early morning and then stocked it in our backyard. We gathered more of them then he sold it to a junkshop. What did we do with the money? we bought icecream!

My dad injected the diy blood in us and incouraged us to be resourceful by utilizing what ever is around us. He can make usefull things out of discarded things. That's why i say my dad is Macgyver.