Scott's Top Tips shares practical home hacks and tricks that solve everyday problems. Discover simple DIY fixes, honest product reviews, and smart solutions designed to save time, money, and frustration around your home. Whether you're searching for the best power tools for home owners, comparing a cordless power tools combo, researching ryobi cordless power tools, looking for a detailed power tool set review, or deciding between different power tool sets, you're in the right place. If you're looking for a hand picker, pick up tool, or a simple diy reaching tool you can build yourself, this project is an inexpensive solution using items you probably already have at home.

Knowing how to Do It Yourself (DIY) shows you how to save money by avoiding contractor fees—especially the high service costs. This video also includes practical first time home buyer tips and advice for building a reliable tool collection, covers the essential power tools for your apartment or first home, and shares cordless tools storage ideas while demonstrating a clever homemade reaching tool. If you enjoy home diy tips and tricks, home tool hacks, home utility ideas, and practical house diy tips, you'll love this easy project.

🧹 Can't Reach It? Make This Instead!

Tired of climbing on chairs or trying to reach items on top of cabinets, shelves, or high storage spaces? In this video, I'll show you how to build a simple homemade grabber using a clothespin, broom handle, string, and duct tape. It's an inexpensive DIY solution that works surprisingly well and takes only a few minutes to build.

Along the way, I explain why the clothespin needs to be positioned a certain way, how to route the pull string for maximum leverage, and how a few simple physics principles make this homemade grabber work so effectively.

Whether you're a homeowner, DIY beginner, apartment renter, or simply enjoy building useful tools from everyday household items, this is one of those projects you'll find yourself using over and over again.

In this video, you'll learn:

✅ How to build a homemade reaching tool
✅ How to make a simple DIY grabber with a clothespin
✅ Why the pull string placement matters
✅ How to attach everything securely with duct tape
✅ How to keep the tool removable without damaging your broom
✅ How to retrieve items from high cabinets and shelves safely
✅ Why this costs only a few dollars to build
✅ Tips for making the grabber stronger and more durable

💡 Bonus Tip

A homemade grabber isn't just useful for reaching high shelves. You can also use it to retrieve lightweight items behind furniture, under appliances, inside closets, garages, RVs, campers, workshops, and other hard-to-reach places without buying an expensive commercial grabber.

⚠️ Safety First

Always use caution when working with scissors, lighters, and sharp tools. Never stand on unstable furniture to reach high objects. Building a simple grabber like this can often be a much safer alternative.

Whether you're organizing your kitchen, garage, workshop, or storage room, this easy DIY project saves time, costs almost nothing, and helps you safely reach places that would otherwise be out of reach.

Part of the Home Hacks & Tricks series from Scott's Top Tips.

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