Your best MacGuyver Moments

Published on

2 July 2025

You may remember a conversation about millennials and their toolboxes. If we’re a generation that often doesn’t have the right tool to use we get creative.

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We all have an inner MacGuyver

We all remember MacGuyver could take a piece of bubblegum, paper clip, and a Castle Light, and make a bomb? We’ve all had our own MacGuyver moment – when we get creative with our tools.

Here are some of our favourite MacGuyver moments we heard from you:

“Using braai tongs to reach top shelf items because I’m short”
“Using a flour sieve on my hair as a replacement for a diffuser when I blow-dry”
“When the fanbelt in my car broke I used my stockings as a replacement”
“When I dropped my phone in water I put it in the oven at a very low temperature and it worked!”

Phil de Lange

Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.