Trenary, Michigan has a unique annual race called the Outhouse Classic. The premise is simple: build an outhouse with wood and/or cardboard, put it a toilet seat and a roll of toilet paper, mount it on skis and push it to the finish line!

Link | More pictures of outhouses

This one is from waaaay back, but very neat nonetheless! (via the famous Cellar Image of the Day archive – you’ll spend hours looking through their awesome collection of pics!)

(via Wugsy)

Update 1/28/06: Turns out that this DIY water heater was made by Patryk Sielski from Warsaw, Poland. Patryk wrote:

I live in an academic hostel of Warsaw University of Technology. Unfortunately, we don’t have hot water in our rooms, it’s only in kitchen and toilet outside. This inconvenience caused me to think about hot water. Commercial heaters are to expensive to students, it’s also a problem to assemble without temporary cutting off the water. Beside of that, the fuses would be immediately blown.

The cheapest device that have an electric heater is a cordless kettle. Some glue, a bottle and a pipe… voila! The hot water flows.

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