What have you ever done with a brick?
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March 30th, 2010
Asking this strange question for a brainstorming session. A brick, you ask? Yes, a brick. A red, heavy, ordinary brick. Besides the obvious (ie: build a wall) what have you ever used a brick for? Have you recently done anything useful/strange/crazy with one? What would you do if I said I would give you $100 to “do something with this brick?” What uses can you come up with for an ordinary brick? Silly/funny/odd suggestions welcomed! All suggestions much appreciated! PS: If you’re gonna say “Throw it at someone/something” please explain WHY you would.
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Use it as a door stop in my bathroom. Currently there’s an old shoe doing the job, but I’d like to reunite it with it’s mate so I can actually wear that pair of shoes.
Heat it up in the oven,wrap it in a towel and put it with the barn cat as she’s giving birth,or let a newly adopted puppy sleep with a warm wrapped brick at night.
Well, last week we made people fish bricks out of a swimming pool during try-outs.
They were try-outs for the school’s Quidditch team actually, but that’s beside the point…
I’d display it in an art museum on a pedestal and give it the title “The Downfall of Humanity.” People would think it was really deep, and I’d make millions off it.
No imagination here: I’d throw it through some store’s display window. Why? Entropy must increase—it’s Nature’s way.
When I moved from private school to public school, I carried a brick in my purse because there was/ is a lot of gang activity at that school. Yes I used it once and knocked the kid out.
Are you entering the “How-can-I-sell-a-brick-on- eBay contest”?
1. propped a door open
2. laid it and may of its fellows in my garden for patio areas
3. used it and fellow to build bookcases [college days]
4. used it as an impromptu hammer
5. thrown it
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6. grind it for pigment
7. collect it if it had unusual stampings
@squidcake Quidditch team???? without brooms?
BTW i have seen a brick—actually many of them—in a museum as part of a piece about implied force. The bricks [about a half ton’s worth] were suspended somehow in an inverted pyramid above the museum visitor’s head.
An iPod repair kit. ‘Simply beat Brick against iPod until functions cease.’
A water saving device in a toilet tank.
Taped the first class postage paid envelope from the junk mail to a brick and sent it to them.
My kids painted bricks with a Christmas theme for a school project for door stops (Which makes no sense since we live in Kansas and the last thing we’ll be doing in December is propping doors open…..) Other than that, the house I bought is over 100 years old. There is one section of lawn off the back deck that, was apparently at one time, a brick flooring of some kind. A driveway maybe? Anyway, off the subject, anytime I want a brick to line a flower bed or something I just mine the lawn off my back deck….
Measured W’s brain against it to verify my opinion that he was as thick as it.
@jayduff Been reading Outliers?
When I was little I use to lift them up to find worms under there. Then I would feed them to my birdies.
Now I use them to make ramps.
I’d give it a nice bath and then have my way with it afterwards.
@Val123 Yeah ramps, I put a sheet of wood up a sidewalk and put the bricks on the ends of it so it won’t slide off. Mostly for skating.
I’ve cooked on a hot brick before.
I’ve also made bricks.
Brick lined ovens are the best way to bake breads and pizza. They retain heat and radiate it more evenly than you can get out of most modern ovens.
One of my subordinates, many years ago, was having trouble concentrating when we were practicing our drill and ceremonies and he somehow got confused between his left and right sides when doing facing movements. So, as a reminder for him, I made him carry a brick in his left hand for several hours so he could properly distinguish between his left and right.
@Val123, I was camping. The brick was sitting by the fire and had gotten hot, so I made a grilled cheese on it.
I have a brick that I got from my Dad’s high school when they tore it down. It has the date, location and everything – it’s a “collector” brick.
If you gave me one today, I would break it up and make large pebbles to use in the bottom of my geranium planter to keep the soil from going through the holes.
You know the three holes that are in a brick? I used them as a hideout/trench hole when I was playing war with my Smurf plastic action figures. Came in handy when I was 9.
They used a red brick as an award for stupid things people do in my old office. It started with a maintenance man who was told to paint the curb at the west end of the parking lot red. The boss got a phone call from a friend asking why his guy was out on the busy street painting the city’s curb.
When asked the guy said @You said to paint the West curb and West High School is over there.
Every year, when someone made a really stupid mistake they would get a red brick award.
My mother used them in place of her small dumbbells to do her exercises when she was away from home.
Accidentally knocked out my two front baby teeth.
Good thing I was only five at the time, but my adult teeth also got chipped a little by the impact.
I’ve warmed up a brick in a fire to use as a foot warmer. I painted one orange in third grade. I’ve used one as a hammer when I was little. I used one to practice shot putting, just to see if I could shot put. I can’t.
When I was a kid we would often use bricks for goalposts when playing football/soccer to the yanks.Along with jumpers or nearby trees.As for ingenious uses for a brick, i’d replace anything Steve Martin does with one,bound to get more laughs,way more charisma & cheaper too.
Thanks all for such great input!
I use broken bricks (and cinder blocks) to even out the wooden steps on two decks. The soil here is clay and retains water; thus the house resettled and ends up off the true.
@janbb I was thinking the same thing when I read this question. In my head I was going “Malcolm Gladwell Reference FTW!”
Do NOT use bricks to hold down the plastic tarp on a homemade slip n slide. Doy, Mom.
When my son was 3 we were in the back yard and he says, “Mom! Watch this!” and threw a half a brick straight up in the air, and stood there grinning…until it came down on his head. Blood everywhere! You know how those shallow wounds can bleed. He really is a smart boy! Just sometimes it was hard to tell.
Like @anartist, I have used them to build book shelves and shelves to put all the pots with my cacti/succulents on. I have also used them for garden edging. To fill up garden pots so they don’t need so much soil.
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