Most of us aren't all that resourceful. If the futon we bought from IKEA is missing one of the tiny screws from the manual, we dial the 800 number and wait for them to ship it to us. But there are people who have built incredible solutions to some of life's most basic problems using stuff that you've thrown out because you thought it was useless. Here are five people who prove that calling anything else useless might be the most hypocritical thing you've ever said ...

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Don't have the money for a bitchin' ride but live in the former USSR? No problem; you most likely have some sort of innate ability to turn garbage into mobile gold.

If there's one thing we learned from Napoleon and Hitler, it's that Russia is nothing but a hellish frozen landscape. It makes sense then that one of the Russian people's main pastimes is taking random junk and turning it into snowmobiles.

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That unnamed retiree is dominating Mother Nature in his homemade snowmobile composed of old motorcycle parts, a carousel seat and even an old novelty coke bottle. The awesomely effective machine cost barely anything and took him less than a year to build. He's far from the only Russian to use garbage to kick the tundra's ass. Ever wonder what happened to that weightlifting bench Chuck Norris tricked you into buying, and everything else on TV tricked you into throwing out without ever using?

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Why, a Russian built a snowmobile out of it, not to mention that inner tube you forgot to tie down while driving down the highway.