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Three Phone Books Too Many
July 28, 2007 |
Yet another phone book company delivered a book of “friendly” yellow pages to our front door this month — for a total of three giant phone books from three different companies — for our two-person household. I don’t remember the last time I used a phone book (poor l’il archaic thing), but we tend to keep at least one copy handy.
What to do with the other two? After sitting in a pile for several months, they find their way to the recyling center. Or I use a book as a makeshift cutting pad for my X-acto work. Do you do anything creative with your used or unwanted phone books?
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I dislike that too!!!!!
I use the extra phone books for a few things-first I have one as my ‘glue/paint’ book. You can do all your messy gluing/painting for scrapbooks/art stuff on the phone book, then rip out the dirty pages, while keeping your worksurface clean!
I also use one for pressing flowers. the papers absorb really well, and you can put ALOT of stuff in a phone book.
I like to use the pages for collage crafts or to make small envelopes to mail little notes in.
Let’s say you go to a gas station and the toilet seat is really dirty. Rip a few pages out of the nearest yellow pages. Maybe you chose the Attorney heading. Wrap them around the dirty seat.
Some pets (eg rabbits) like to play with telephone directories. Otherwise I use them sometimes for gluing, painting, I thought about using some of the pages in collage but so far haven’t done that.
Great ideas (um, yes, even the toilet liner idea). Crafty Green Poet, I’ve seen some wallpapering techniques with phone books that make some really interesting patterns. The paper is a far-cry from acid-free scrapbooking-type paper, but I think it would still make a great tissue-like collage paper.
I’ve chased phone book delivery guys down the street telling them to take their phonebooks back. I have a no soliciting sign (no handbills, etc. . .) and these are just books of ads. Really! Each “yellow pages” boils down to ads guaranteed to reach all the residents of any given city. Then a lot of recycling center specify “no phonebooks.” I’m not sure I could say I’ve recycled them in a creative way. My daughter used a stack of them before we broke down and bought a booster seat.
My dh used the ever handy duct tape to cover the phone book and we use it as a booster seat for our son.
phone book pages are newsprint which is very absobent. when i use my deep fryer i put the phone book pages as a base layer, then cover with some paper towel ( i’m sure there are lots of germs on phone books! ) that’s how i drain my french fries. i don’t feel guilty just throwing them out and i save a lot of money not using tons of paper towels. our local phone company always leave a huge stack of them in the main foyer of my apartment building and after a few weeks i take the leftover ones nobody needs so they are relativly clean. happy french fry day!
Opt out! Someone from this group posted this link on my blog: http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/
Not sure if it really works, but something to look into!
I use two phone books as a computer monitor stand, so my neck won’t ache as I’m working on my computer. I also have a phone book under my desk as a foot rest. I’m short and my feet don’t quite touch the ground in my office chair.
I do this at home and sadly at work.