January 25, 2009

• Thou art AMAZING, o Xanga readers!

  EDIT: credit to where credit is due at bottom.

   

  i am so very happy. because 45 was the end of my creativity. and my teacher said “100 or nuttin.”

  so here it is you lovely people you:

  100 things to do with a paper clip. besides clip paper:

  1. Hold your pants up

  2. Use it in the place of a button

  3. Back scratcher

  4. Magnetize it and use for a magnet

  5. Connect them and make a necklace

  6. Connect them and make a bracelet

  7. Earrings

  8. Hold pantyhose up

  9. Pick a lock

  10. Make a rubbing

  11. Key chain holder

  12. Clip them to your fingernails and tap the counter with them

  13. Clip them to your teeth for fangs

  14. Toothpick

  15. Connect them for a chain

  16. Play limbo with the chain

  17. Use the chain for Christmas tree decorations

  18. Use to hang ornaments on the tree

  19. Use the chain for a measuring guide

  20. Use for pins in “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”

  21. Self-defense weapon–poke out an attacker’s eye

  22. Clean your nails

  23, Clean the cracks between the tile

  24. Soap carving

  25. Etching your name into the gross bathroom wall

  26. Bookmark

  27. Balloon popper

  28. Reshape into an art sculpture

  29. Straighten and play “Pick up Sticks”

  30. Straighten and use as mini-drum sticks to beat to the music

  31. Shape into a heart and give it to your valentine

  32. Reshape into a napkin ring

  33. Make it into a ring

  34. Reshape into stick people and make a village

  35. Reshape into stick people and make an army. Stage a battle with the village.

  36. Use as pins for sewing

  37. Use as pins to stick into voodoo dolls

  38. Stick into marshmallows and make 3D sculptures

  39. Stop clothes from sliding off hangers

  40. Make a chain and use as a jump rope

  41. Make a chain and use as a clothes line

  42. Straighten out and use for shish-ka-bob sticks

  43. Reshape and then stick one in an eraser for a pencil topper

  44. Marshmallow roasting stick (for over a very little fire or candle)

  45. Stick it into a cake to see if it is fully cooked

  46. Paint them and glue to picture frames as decoration…
  47. Put them in a drawer and hide stuff under them
  48. Use as “weight” on a paper airplane
  49. “Cargo” in a toy motorized train
  50. Glue to wood and bend a bit to make into a key holder by your front door.

  51. Clip to nose and pretend to be a bull.

  52. As a money clip

  53. As a fish hook

  54. To clean your nose (carefully).

  55. To clean your ears (very carefully). Maybe with a cotton ball on the end.

  56. Melt down and use as dental filling (Panamanians do with pop can tabs).

  57. Hook many together and make play “chain mail”

  58. As a replacement for a $25 change key on an ATM safe door lock. (Requires pushing two very small buttons at once and the holes are exactly the size of a paperclip)
  59. Pushing those little reset buttons on electronics.
  60. Use them to test electric motors and solenoids by connecting the hot to a ground on the motor.

  61. Use to close a bag of chips to keep them fresh
  62. Give a handful to a child and just see what happens
  63. Keep your shoes on when you’ve lost your shoelaces
  64. Hold glasses together when you’ve lost the screw
  65. Unbend and create a small hook to retrieve things you’ve lost in tight
  spaces
  66. Unbend and use to clean out a strainer that has dried food stuck in
  the holes
  67. Unbend and use to draw pictures in wet sand
  68. Cover several with different colors of electrical tape and twist
  together in creative ways to make a beautiful work of art
  69. In a pinch, use them like a trail of breadcrumbs so you can find your
  way back home
  70. Paper clip fight!!! Just throw them at each other
  71. Hide them around the house on a rainy day and have the family try to
  find them (like Easter Eggs)
  72. Hide them around the house and make up a map and/or give clues of
  where they are – like a treasure hunt
  73. Make a chain, hang it on a wall and use it to creatively display your
  child’s art
  74. Unclog a can of spray paint
  75. Unclog the pump of the bathroom soap dispenser (you know – when the
  soap dries in there and nothing will come out)
  76. Use to secure the knot of a ribbon when you don’t have some one to
  ‘put their finger on it’ so you can make the bow tight
  77. Use to secure party decorations on the wall (for example, clip a
  streamer to the pull of the blinds)
  78. As a joke – give someone a box (or a handful) of paperclips, tell them
  you found the perfect gift to explain to them what they mean to you. Watch in amusement as they try to figure it out.
  79. Use as an exercise in some kind of self-reflection class – list the
  ways you are like a paperclip (I LOVE this one, Cherrylynn!:))
  80. Use as inspiration to write a poem
  81. Keep your hat on in windy weather
  82. Use as inspiration to paint/draw a picture
  83. Unclog the little holes in a salt shaker/other seasoning jar
  84. Use to hold together fabric when designing clothes
  85. Use them to hold the hem of my pants up when I’ve ripped
  out the seam

  86. Use to hang a framed picture on the wall

  87. Use them as inspiration to complete an extra credit assignment in your educational psych class J

  88. Nose ring

  89. String them together and sort out buttons or beads on them

  90, String them together and sort out safety pins on them

  91. Cover with clay to reinforce the neck of clay sculptures

  92. Necklace closure/extender

  93. Hold charms on a bracelet or a necklace

  94. Use as an extender on your pants button to give some more room after Thanksgiving dinner

  95. Bracelet closure/extender

  96. Twisty tie to close trash bags

  97. Twisty tie plants to a stake to help them grow straight

  98. Poke through holes punched in paper and then twist it to hold the sheets of paper together

  99. Use as a weapon, combined with a rubber band for more effect

  100. Use them to play “Tiddly Winks” (Does anyone else remember that game?)

  101. String them on your glasses to not lose them

  102. Stick them in a clay base to hold pictures

  103. Stick them in a clay base to hold recipes instead of getting them all smudged while you cook

  104. Bend them to make dollhouse furniture

  105. Use to balance a nail in place (instead of your finger) when you are going to hammer it into the wall

   

   

  numbers 46-50 by smiling_spunk

  numbers 51-57 by sonnetjoy

  numbers 58-60 by Tom@revelife

  numbers 61-87 by my amazing cousin, Cherrylynn

  number 88-105 by my lovely mum

   

  *my teacher loved it. and..i was the only one in the class who actually did it. “100 or nuttin!”

   

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