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A papery predicament
By AllisonMiles in Business Notebook
July 25, 2008

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I spent most of last night doing laundry and straightening up my apartment. The place was in desperate need of a cleaning and it's still not quite there, but it was a productive night.

But as I folded clothes and scrubbed down counters, I came across a problem I bet 90 percent of my reporter counterparts face all the time. The sheer number of newspapers I keep inside the apartment.

It's not that I don't read them - I mean, it is my job, after all - but I keep them on hand so I can cut out my clippings. And since I don't sit down and do that every night (although I guess I should consider it) they tend to pile up.

It got me wondering, though, what I could do with all the papers once I was through with them. They usually make their way to the recycling center but I'm sure there are a few fun projects out there, too.

Any ideas out there? Some digging around online brought up several pretty interesting ideas -  greeting cards with collages, a paper mache piggy bank and even a pair of newspaper slippers, although I think I might pass on that one. (I've seen what newsprint does to my hands and I don't wish that fate on my feet.) 

Anyway, I'm just curious. If anybody out there has any brilliant ideas, I'm all ears. :)

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  • OLDRUSTYBUCKET1 OLDRUSTYBUCKET1 Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    ALLISON: When you clip out your ink, be sure to leave the publication name and date attached for later verification when you need all that on one piece of newsprint for submitting your work for contests. Hopefully, this'll pay off for you someday. It has for me.

    July 26, 2008 at 10:59 p.m.

  • pat pat Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    I know in Corpus when I lived there the city pound and the animal shelters all had a use for newspapers. You might check with the Dorothy O'Connor  Pet Adoption Center, the Adopt-a-Pet Center and if Victoria has one, the city pound.

    July 25, 2008 at 3:02 p.m.

  • AprillBrandon AprillBrandon Report a ViolationReport a Violation
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    Ah, yes, so glad to see I am not the only one with this issue. One time I was going through my giant stacks of newspapers and found some from six months ago. All I needed was a few dozen cats and a few more stacks of newspaper and I'd be that "crazy lady who lives down the street."
    Now, I'm not sure if this would work with newspapers, but I was watching one of those home improvement shows a few years ago and instead of using wall paper, they tore out pages from books and pasted those to the walls in an interesting pattern. Just a thought.

    July 25, 2008 at 2:15 p.m.