there I fixed it

You think you have to be a big spender Mr. Rockefeller fat cat to afford a toilet seat warmer? Not when you have some socks lying around! With a wish and a prayer, some technical know-how and the ability to overlook installations that look like they are literal garbage, you too can be a DIY master. Not everything has been invented quite yet, hence these useful and interesting innovations to make life easier.

Images of incredible ingenuity, weird sights and common problems, all of reportedly slavic origin. Looks like some more rural parts of the U.S. but with--dear god that's a lot of snow. For some more strangeness, here are some strange Russian dating site photos that are truly uncomfortable.

If necessity is the mother of invention and laziness is the father, then these are the estranged uncle.