Tissue Lifter

Ever feel annoying in the situation like this? When your tissue stock in the box is very low, the next tissue will not come up and your fingers just can't reach it inside the box. Well, let's make a simple tweak. I called it "Tissue Lifter".

First, measure your tissue box, the length, the width, and the height. My little box is 10 cm x 10 cm x 8 cm.

Now find a hard cardboard. You need two pieces of hard cardboard at the size of the length and width of your tissue box. Well, slightly smaller so that they fit in the box. Here I use my Xiaomi Mi Band box. I think it is a very thin plywood wrapped with paper. It is a good box indeed, but somehow I think I will no longer need it laying on my desk.

Well, this part is really hard to find when you need it, but you can try your local hardware stores. I get this from dismantling my X-Mini speakers at earlier time. The height is just perfect, 8 cm just like my tissue box. You can use a slightly lower spring, one or two centimeters lower than the box's height will do good in this project. Remember not to use high tension springs.

I use two springs for my mini tissue box. If you have a bigger box, then you might need three or four springs to balance the top cardboard, where the tissues sit.

I stick the springs diagonally at the corners with hot glue. Placed your springs so that the top cardboard is well balanced either with load or not. Wait for few minutes to get the glue dry, then flipped it and stick to the other cardboard.

This is the tissue lifter. Just put it into the tissue box and put the tissues on it. As I said before, use light tension springs, so when the tissue stock is full the box is still well closed. The springs are pressed to almost flat.

Now we have no worries for low stock in tissue box. But you still need to prepare buying the refill pack in the market ;)