7 Useful Things You Can Do With Old Magazines And Catalogs.
We all receive copious amounts of junk mail as it's thrust through our letter boxes everyday.Various promotional leaflets and magazines pile up and before we know it we can be left with unwanted brightly colored paperwork, that we don't quite know what to do with.It seems like a real waste to just throw it all away, especially in todays economical and financial climate.Here are 7 of the best and most useful ways to deal with all of your old magazines.
Turn them into beads.
Begin by tearing them up and mixing them with 2 parts pva glue and 1 part water, until you have pappier-mache.Roll them into little balls or other shapes and wait for them to dry.Pierce a hole on the middle and paint with a clear varnish or with clear nail varnish and wait for them to set.
Keep your knee or thigh high boots looking new.
When left to their own devises, boots will bend under the force or gravity.These can leave them looking crumpled, creased and a bit worse for ware.This can be disappointing especially if you paid a lot for them.One way to combat this it to roll up two of your old magazines into tubes and place them vertically in the boot.They then work as boot tree, holding them up and keeping them looking new.
Kids craft projects.
On a rainy day children can get bored, what better way to keep them entertained on these occasions then to cut up and create crafts and art work out of your old magazines.You can get them to make their own playing cards, or a mosaic or even invent their own game.Magazines, glue, tape and scissors can keep them busy for hours.
Free wrapping paper.
If styled and designed appropriately, unwanted magazines make a great gift wrap.You can either fashion your own original sheet of wrap by cutting out and sticking pictures however you see fit, or you can find a piece that has good enough artwork on it's own to pass as reasonable, wrapping paper.If you think people will assume you a cheep skate, think again, they often admire your personal flair and most wrapping paper only ends up in the bin anyway, it's the actual gift most people are really interested in.
Make paper chains.
Don't waste money buying paper chains, make them out of your old magazines.Paper chains are suitable for any event, celebration or occasion and are the easiest of things to make.All you do is cut your magazine into rectangles, fashion them into hoops sticking either end together and then fitting another rectangle into a hoop through the previous one, and so on and so forth.You can make them as bold, bright and as long as you like and you can hang them anywhere in the home, office or hall.
Scented draw liners.
These are one of the simplest and quickest ideas of them all, you just tear out a piece of paper from one of your magazines and spray it on both sides with your favorite perfume, deodorant or with some scented oils.Then place it at the bottom of your draws or in your wardrobe and viola, an easy way to keep you and your clothes smelling gorgeous.When the scent fades, just replace it with a new one.
Recycle.
Newspapers, magazines and leaflets can all be recycled and yet less then a third are, this is shocking.Even with everything we know about the fragility of our environment and the opportunity to be able to recycle them, people still don't.If you really can't find any uses for your old magazines and you just want to get rid of them, please do the planet a favor and recycle them.