DIY gifts for people good with their hands (or think they are)

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Are you short on cash this year? Or have waaay too much time on your hands? Or maybe have a lot of bacon lying around? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might want to check out Popular Mechanics’ list of 10 DIY gifts, which include a marshmallow gun, knife holder and bacon soap (not recommended for eating).

You can probably make these gadgets if ‘you’re the type of person who likes getting his hands dirty fixing, servicing, and building your home, car, and garage hobbies,’ according to Popular Mechanics. Sure, that sentence doesn’t make much sense, but hey, you like ‘building garage hobbies.’ Grammar is not your specialty.

Even those of you who don’t like building garage hobbies might want to check out the DIY gifts, which include perfume, noise-canceling headphones and crooked knives. And it should probably be noted, if you’re the type of person who thinks you excel at fixing/building things but your endeavors usually end with an emergency call to the plumber/electrician/poison-control hotline, maybe you should not DIY.

-- Alana Semuels