It's not brilliant, but I swear that a butter knife can do next to anything. Screw driver. Ice pick. Crow bar. You name it.

I'm missing a knife from my flatware; I'll bet that's what happened to it!

I had a shoe with a hard chunky heel that doubled as a hammer for many years. And my butter knife gets quiet a work-out. My handy husband was shocked when he saw all my improvised tools!

While at college, my mom sent me a goodies box with some canned soup.

During finals, at 2 in the morning I was starving, out of money, and hungry. Only problem? I had no can opener. But I did have a butter knife and a brick....

To my surprise, it worked! I just hammered the knife through the top of the can with the brick until I had cut far enough to pry open the whole thing. Didn't spill any soup either!

I know this isn't mind blowing or anything, but I have a rock collection, and anytime I can't locate the hammer it sure comes in handy having all of those rocks laying around!

stapler as a hammer to hang a picture at work.

It's not unusual to see me in the showroom take off my shoe and hammer in a nail. Nothing more frustrating to than to be standing on top of dresser (or sometimes even a ladder), nail in place and look down to see the hammer on the floor. The customers find it entertaining.

my mother-in-law's boyfriend swears that you can use a can of bactine spray to fix a flat tire. he's hispanic anything he does like this he refers to as "mexican engineering"!

I once put together an entire IKEA entertainment center using only a butterknife. It took forever, but that thing held up through 3 moves and many years of use. Now I'm married to a contractor/carpenter so I'm never without tools when i need them!

I saw a weatherman use a frozen banana once to hammer a nail in a board!

I often have one or two in the freezer anyway that are on their way to becoming banana bread so I like this one.

I have used a a tape dispenser as a hammer (a big ole one that you keep on your desk and replace the roll of tape- not the clear plastic disposable dispensers).

If I need to crush or flatten anything in the kitchen (ie nuts, nilla wafers, a chicken breast) I often report to a wine bottle.

I concur that Butter knives rock!

I have been known to use a meat tenderizer to put together my IKEA furniture. :D

I have found myself in need of a mixer a few times at work, but am without one. I did, however, have a wooden spoon, and a DeWalt power drill... It worked like a charm!

I'm kind of the opposite. I always have a hammer at hand and use it to do other things. The claw can be used for digging in the garden to plant bulbs or to scratch that itch on my back that is just out of reach.

I use channel locks to open jars in the kitchen.

I can't remember what it was originally for, but I have a bent nail in my tool box that has come in handy dozens of times. Just a 16 penny sinker with a 90 degree bend about 1/2 inch from the tip. Every now and then I think about tossing it out, but something always comes up that makes me glad I kept it.

I hate working with a level. I usually put a golf ball on the shelf as a level. When it sits in the middle and doesn't roll must be level.