Put some in a sealed container then shake to make a rudimentary percussion instrument. My kids have done this using loo roll tubes with paper held in place with a rubber band over each end, although they used lentils instead of old staples.

I spend ages at work folding them over and making staple “chains”…

i believe you can recycle them just like any other metal, but you’d have to have a good place to store them until you had enough worth to recycle.

If you can straighten them out well enough, you could try reusing them in the stapler (try a few at a time). Or just poke two similar holes in what you want to staple and push through to reuse.

In the future, see if your office can get one of those paper staplers (no metal) for anything 5 pages or under.

Put them on a magnet base and use ‘em to make cool little sculptures.

Make a small plaster cast of what ever you want, melt a load of staples with a blow torch into it (Don’t breath the fumes). Pristo presto you have a steel ornament.

I’m with Trish on collecting them in bulk then taking them to your local scrap metal mechants’. Either find a nice neat little container with a split/hole at the top to collect them…or liking the Chris Baskind..use a large magnet(which can be coupled as a paperweight), to collect them. In the office you can have little containers on everyone’s desk and let them get in on the game too…you can collect in bulk :) it’s all getting very exciting…..but I’m still here staple picking old letters for shredding!!!! Shessh!

In the future, instead of buying a regular stapler, you could buy one of those neat stapleless staplers.

I have seen a woman is Seattle removing the
staples from telephone poles. She does this all day every week day. I’m sure it’s more profitable then begging.

She seems to clean the poles about 3 to 7 per day.

Maybe someone should ask her about her
habit. She can be found in the Crownhill
neighborhood of seattle

I believe we can place a common recylcing bin in the office area and collect enough to take to the recylcing center. Any other suggestions are welcomed.

Anita

Going with the robot pubes idea, maybe they can be donated to an art studio or someone who creates sculptures from metal, they could use them to add ‘texture’.

The staples can be used to make a house number on a polymer clay tablet. Make sure you use dark color clay so the staples will be visible. Squeeze each staple into clay to form numbers, or letters, burn the tablet by instructions, cover with polish. Now hang it, or use as decorative item.

Bang them around a strip of fabric, rubber or leather, glue fabric on the inside. You have a unique bracelet.

Decorate candles with them. Push staples into the candle to make a pattern or initial.

Use them as wire for homemade jewelry.

Form tiny letters out of them for homemade cards or scrap booking.

When working with small screws, beads or other parts, improvise a tiny box out of new staples. Brake the stock of staples into a square. Brake the other square in a way that it fits inside first square to form a box. Keep small parts in it.

Also, making two of those boxes and gluing them around tiny wooden cube, you’ll create a cute key chain trinket.

Using a small match box as a guide ( or any other box no wider than the staples), glue the line of new, unbroken staples to the side, then snap away the extra. Do it on each side before glue dries up. Use decorated box for storage, as a frame, or a shadow box.

RObot Pubes?