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Uses Of A Paperclip

Yes, I was sad enough to come up with this! My good friend Sarah read a book that said that the average person would only be able to think up around 20 in their lifetime, so I set out to try and find 100. Well, I'm up to 62 now, but I'm starting to get a bit stuck on ideas... if you have any to add to this list, please say so in my guestbook!

1. Use to clip pieces of paer together
2. Book marker
3. Hair clip
4. Lock picker
5. Use to scratch things
6. Bend into a ring
7. Bend lots together to make a bracelet/necklace
8. Make barbed wire
9. Replace wires in a circuit with joined up paper clips
10. Reset watches, organisers etc.
11. Make a chain
12. Magnetise to make a compass
13. Acupuncture
14. Earrings
15. Solder together to make glasses
16. Straighten and give to a mouse as a tap-dancing stick
17. Make into a sculpture
18. Make into a hook and eye
19. Melt down to produce other things
20. Use as needle
21. Make into keyring
22. Use for end of compass
23. Sew onto material to make futuristic/metallic dress
24. Tie-clip
25. Spike to hold bits of paper etc.
26. Make into a wind chime ornamant
27. Use as nails
28. Use as a paintbrush
29. Make into a spring
30. Put marks on it to make a ruler
31. Make netting by weaving them together
32. Making into washing pegs
33. Use to fix zip link
34. Use as hands of a clock
35. Support for small plants
36. Hair pin
37. Bend into thingy to find water underground
38. Solution mixer
39. Get batches together to use a weights
40. Use as a currency
41. Stick paper onto it to make into a flage
42. Use as toothpick
43. Use in piercings
44. Stick lost onto piece of wood to make metal brush
45. Use as brace wire
46. Use as darts
47. Use for curtain hooks
48. Disguise as a kilt-pin
49. Torture implement
50. Use as plectrum
51. Magnetise it to make a magnet
52. Drill a hole in it to make a drinking straw
53. Disguise as a pipe cleaner
54. Make stilts for mice
55. Bend into a hook/spoon thingy for science experiments
56. Stick lots together to make an Alice band
57. Use as cocktail stick
58. Glue lots together to make a wire fence
57. Use as a coat toggle
58. Use as a really big staple
59. Use as chopsticks
60. Heat them and use as mini curling tongs
61. Use for spikes to keep pigeons from sitting on window sills etc
62. Use as a picket fence