With everything we learn, we also learn to use some of the tools from one skill for another, totally unrelated project.
Today, I was tracing a pattern and thought to use painters tape to hold it down. The tape comes off easily, without tearing the paper(pulled off carefully) and there are no pins to get in the way of the rulers.
Finding that I had misplaced my pattern rulers, I used some landscape templates that I had, instead!
It was then that I remembered that, when cutting wood, I often use my seam gauge to find the proper place to clamp a guiding board.
Then, there's the kitchen-pilfered roll of waxed paper that we use to keep glue from sticking to parts that we don't want to glue...
On occasion, I have used a large flat-head screwdriver as a weed remover and have used a small paint brush to pollinate plum and cucumber blossoms.
I'm betting that many of our smart forum members have other items that they have used as crossover tool helpers. I'd enjoy reading about it and sharing ideas.