Tue 11 Jul 2006

Now that the lovely internet is here for my every need, I can’t remember the last time I used a phone book. But still, every year or so we get phone books, Yellow Pages, Thompson directories…
They sit on our shelf for a little while, gathering dust and taking up space, then, during one of his many ill-timed cleaning frenzies, John will suddenly want to get rid of them and won’t rest until they’re out of the house or at least relocated to somewhere not in his frenzy path.
So any ideas what we can do with them?





john
July 14th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I keep an old phone directory around and use pages from it as disposable clean-up rags.
Great for all the different things that come out of our cats.
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Rosie
July 14th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
they cna be used as steppers..two or more.. and also a good exercise is to put your foot on the “step” and then lean over you outstretched leg.. gently
Stretches the ham strings and is a good exercise for sciatiaca suffres
Rosie
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Emanla Eraton
July 26th, 2006 at 2:38 am
You can shred them up and use them for packing material
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Emanla Eraton
August 15th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
You can also shred them up and use them for starting fires in wood stoves, fireplaces, or barbecue grills.
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dancing girl
September 19th, 2006 at 11:17 am
I have recycled these with waste paper collections in Australia and New Zealand. If the paper is similar to newspaper I don’t see why not?
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Anonymous
May 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
You can’t do that in the UK because the glue used apparently gums up the pulping machine! And the yellow dye makes the paper unusable. So they say.
You can opt out of getting Yellow Pages in the future by calling 0800 671 444.
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drew
November 20th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
definitely use the pages for cleaning mirrors and glass, nothing works better for streak free clean than yellow pages or newspaper.
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Joan
December 12th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
shred and compost
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Cadan ap Tomos
December 13th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
I have heared that yellow pages paper is very good for making papier mache. Not that i’v tried it…
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Janet
May 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Put packing tape round it, and use as a kneeling pad for the house or garden
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Tamara
May 19th, 2008 at 2:44 am
fold it up and use it as an envelope… do your writing on a label
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