![]() ![]() The second one on the video shows how two sewing machine bobbins and a paperclip make an easy fidget toy. Use it the next time you are waiting in a doctor’s office. The first example on this video shows how to make a fidget toy out of colored paper clips. Box tape is sooo hard to remove if you can’t slice through it, and usually when you need it a Stanley knife or ordinary knife don’t happen to be around. Straighten a paper clip and slice through packing tape on boxes instead of pulling and tugging. Ok, they aren’t decorated but they will keep hair up and out of your face while you work. To secure a bun, straighten a large paper clip and stick it through the hair to keep it in place. It provides some priceless photos of the recipient’s reactions. It can be labelled as rattle snake eggs that have hatched, or cockroaches scuttling inside the card. ![]() Usually, people don’t get to open it fully as they throw the card and run. When the person starts to open the card is rattles. Watch this to see how a soda cap, paper clip, and a rubber band can be placed inside a card. ![]() This saves going out and buying expensive magnetized stationery. Wrap straightened out paper clips around pens and pencils and attach them to a magnetic strip on your fridge or at your desk (just not close to your computer). They are so small, but they may save the day at some point. Always have a few of the smaller and a couple of larger paper clips on hand in EDC. There are articles out there with lots more uses, but we thought we would hone it down to the more useful tips. We have listed 83 ways to use paper clips. I hope you’ve enjoyed some of my paper clips collection and maybe next time you use one or receive one in the post, you will look at it with new eyes and give it the respect it deserves!ĭo you dig paper clips? Any nice ones you can tell us about? Happy monday everyone.Put the paper clip to use in cleaning the hard to get at areas in the house and keep kids busy and entertained with arty projects based on paper clips.įinding original uses for common items is a sign of a divergent thinker, according to researchers. Trust them to find something this lovely. These butterflies clips i bought from anthropologie last year. The writing set is from the wonderful japanese and korean artbox. The writing paper is andy warhol.Īgain, a present from a friend. I’m sure they’re still available so for any stationery expert out there, feel free to tell us. I got these as a present so am not sure where they’re from. Staying with bethge-hamburg, here is another sort of clip that has many uses. To me, there’s a huge difference, they are so much purer and warmer! I hope you can see the difference between the brass and the 24 carat gold-plated clips. Of course, now i’m delighted i wasn’t frivolous:) I found out much later that both the shop, calligrane in paris and the limited edition paper clips were no longer in existence. Me, who usually lives in abundance, have been rather stingy with them. Beautifully packaged, 24 carat gold-plated and in a quantity of 50 clips, i had to have it. Quite a few years ago, while in paris, i came across a limited edition of the bethge moon clips. They’re not a patch to the original and i can spot them a mile away! I bet you thought only fashion and furniture is copied? Ha.īelow you will see them in black and brass. There have been numerous copies that spring up from time to time. This must be the perfect design and shape. What do you think?Īs a confessed stationery addict, i’ve collected interesting paper clips for years and thought i will share them here with you. Apparently, paper clips are deemed to be more essential to our lives than fancy gadgets such as the popular iphone 4. Today, i would like to pay ‘homage’ to the paper clip, invented by a norwegian inventor in 1899. It celebrated around 40 breakthrough inventions most people probably take for granted. Products in the exhibition included: sticky tape, sticky plasters, tissue paper to teabags and light bulbs to barcodes, all of which have changed lives around the world. For those of you that missed the incredible ‘the hidden heroes – the genius of everyday things’ exhibition at the science museum, which sadly finished on 5 june 2012, please spend the 3 minutes watching t his video which illustrates some of the products chosen for this exhibition. Interestingly enough, design classics have stood the test of times. Emails, twitter, facebook, pinterest, it’s all accessible 24/7 and quick and fast to use. We live in a fast-paced, technology driven society and a lot of us sometimes express our need to ‘switch off’, ‘take a break’ or ‘re-balance’.
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