coffee

Coffee Maker:$10, Christmas Light Timer:$4, Fresh coffee waiting for you every morning when you wake up: Priceless!

Or just drink it.

Kludge koffee is far more terrible than it sounds. ~Not-So-Handy Andy

Here in Seattle, office workers are known to just open up and stick their mouths under the drip. ~NSHA

From the submitter:

"When the catch-closure on my spring-loaded coffee maker lid broke with no replacement part available, I simply employed the ol' MacGyver bungee system!"

Submitter ricardo says he was being ninja to not wake up his parents.

Necessity in the mother of invention. So I guess Near-necessity is the weird uncle of invention.