# What artistic and/or functional household objects could you make with pieces of your own body?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-artistic-and-or-functional-household-objects-could-you-make-with-pieces-of-your-own-body/614060 "2012-02-26T16:51:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-artistic-and-or-functional-household-objects-could-you-make-with-pieces-of-your-own-body/614060/1 "2012-02-26T16:51:35Z")

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Browsing my past posts, I was reminded of [how I got started](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13119503&postcount=21)on my current project:

> [@Say that I had a large bag of teeth . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-that-i-had-a-large-bag-of-teeth/559902/21):
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> No. The artist in me commands that I go on a massively unhealthy binge diet of every item that can be found in a Wal Mart’s frozen breakfast foods section, starting with [chocolate chip pancakes and sausage on a stick](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_TVVDdbRQQfg/SCxo5rN7xbI/AAAAAAAABRw/dj7Ig9y1_9Q/1196540314171.jpg). After a year or two of this, with my weight ballooning up to 400 pounds, I shall then go on the [Subway diet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSzw5XyVQfY) and drop to 180. And _that_ is where I shall find all the additional skin I need to create my own set of lampshades as well as a photo album of my journey, naturally to be bound in my own skin.

Top that. And no cheating, you have to do it yourself and remain alive to admire your own work.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-artistic-and-or-functional-household-objects-could-you-make-with-pieces-of-your-own-body/614060/2 "2012-02-26T16:53:29Z")

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You could knit yourself a hair-shirt.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-artistic-and-or-functional-household-objects-could-you-make-with-pieces-of-your-own-body/614060/3 "2012-02-26T17:31:56Z")

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A battering ram.

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**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-artistic-and-or-functional-household-objects-could-you-make-with-pieces-of-your-own-body/614060/4 "2012-02-27T02:53:25Z")

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I suppose that, if you collect your own excrement, shape it into oblongs and bake it until it’s hard enough, you might be able to build a house out of the “bricks”.

Not sure that I’d want to visit you, though. And I’m not sure that shit counts as “parts of your own body”.