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This slideshow will show you how to make a quick and easy retention strap/tether for your garbage can lids using paracord. A paracord strap will keep your garbage can’s lid tethered to the garbage can, so that it doesn’t get lost or blown away on windy days. It’s no fun coming home on garbage day to find the lids from your garbage cans nowhere in sight, possibly blown somewhere in the neighborhood down the street, in someone’s hedges, briarpatch, or backyard, or into a gutter, ditch, or storm drain out of reach.

Supplies:

-Garbage can with lid
-3 feet of paracord, but you can use more or less depending on how long you want the tether to be.
-Awl

Optional supples:

-For thick plastic or metal garbage cans, a drill and 1/8" drill bit can be used to make the holes in the can and lid, if an awl won’t work for you.
-A small metal or plastic washer may be glued in place around the hole on the inside of the can and lid for added strength, so the knot isn’t pulled back through the hole, but I’ve never found one necessary .

Use your awl or drill with 1/8" sized bit, to make a hole in the garbage can and the lid, where you want the paracord to fit through. Make sure the holes are placed where they won’t interfere with the lid securely closing on the can. Push the awl through and twist to round out the hole.

The hole should be just large enough to push/pull your paracord through, starting with the garbage can first, just so you don’t have to hold on to the lid while you’re working. Put enough paracord through to be able to tie your stopper knot at the end of the strand.

I’ve just used an overhand stopper knot to keep the strand from pulling back out through the hole and it’s worked fine for me with years of use. A drop of super glue on the knot will further secure it if you worry that it’ll come loose. You can use many other types of stopper knots, but there’s no need to get fancy.

After you’ve attached the cord to the garbage can, repeat the process with the other end of the strand and the lid.

You can get decorative with the paracord strap and add a cobra stitch/Solomon Bar/Portuguese sinnet, hitching, or spaced out knots along the length, to impress your neighbors, the dog walkers, joggers, and your local sanitation workers. But, I wouldn’t put to much effort into it where it might also draw attention from bored miscreants that feel the need to cut the cord and destroy the strap…

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I filmed this at the Brooklyn Arts Center at St And

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Sorry, but my camera couldn’t handle the awesomeness and kept giving me the error "buffering overload", so a few seconds may be missing from the end of each video (usually right in the middle of a solo!).
I filmed this at the Brooklyn Arts Center at St Andrews, Wilmington NC 9-13-2011.