In the spirit of Going Green (it's a slow day), here are a few suggestions:
Cleaning the spaces between your computer keyboard (use the sticky side of a used Post-it to get any crumbs)
Cutting the ends off to make labels for your hanging file folders
Attaching to CD cases to identify them as yours
Luggage tags
Making short grocery lists on the back
Entering "free meal” drawings at your favorite eateries
Makeshift bookmarks (instead of folding the corner of the page down – I HATE THAT!)
Getting that last little bit of chicken salad out of your teeth
Putting personal notes in the lunch bag of someone you love
Fingernail cleaner
Use as a wedge to balance a wobbly table in a restaurant
Noisemakers for your bike (remember clothespining playing cards to the fenders of your bike so they would struck by the spokes on the wheel creating a motorized sound?)
Wallpaper
Build a card castle
Shred them to make confetti
Tape them together to make drawer liners
And my personal favorite:
Use as a Tool Of Deception For People You Don't Like. Carry a few old business cards belonging to someone else in your wallet. When you encounter someone you wish you hadn't, hand them one of them as you leave
4 comments:
I read this a few days ago, and as a result I'm getting all sorts of novel uses out of business cards ... thanks! I was amazed today to see that, yes, a standard business card and a standard hanging-file-folder tab insert do indeed seem to be exactly the same width. What a fine world it is, where things work out so well!
Business cards are wonderful tools to write short stories. If you bind them all together at the end of the month, you'll have a mini short story book. Thanks for the inspiration.
The corners are good for picking your nose too.
Nose pickers, yet another fine and valuable use for business cards.
Jim,
Would I lie???
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