There, I Fixed It
November 19, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffRemember our post on the blog Repaired Things? You do? Well that is quite flattering, thank you so much.
Anyhoo…as we wrote at the time, many people these days don’t have the dough to replace their broken stuff. Where Repaired Things catalogues more-routine home solutions, There, I Fixed It goes one better, documenting “epic kludges and jury rigs.” What’s a kludge? From the blog’s About page:
Kludge – An ill-assorted collection of poorly matching parts, forming a distressing whole.
-Jackson Granholm, Datamation Magazine February 1962
-Jackson Granholm, Datamation Magazine February 1962
So here are some great examples of man’s inhumanity to things in his or her quest to inventively save a few bucks. Click on an image to see it full size.
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More popular kludges here.
