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Fri 15 Feb 2008

How can I reuse or recycle old subway or train tickets?

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Subway ticket Jen of the tape dispenser suggestion had another query:

Another suggestion is all those old metro cards that I’ve been keeping… I’m not sure what I want to do with them yet. Any suggestions?

I’m such a sucker for keeping old train tickets too - credit-sized bits of card - because like so many things, they seem like they’re really useful. I’ve used them folded up under wobbly chairs/tables in restaurants on occasion but this really isn’t enough to justify keeping as many as I do.

So suggestions?

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Make art for you wall in the form of a collage or montage.

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Use them as homemade business/contact cards to hand out to people.

Put them in your bike wheels so they make a cool sound when your spokes hit them.

Sell them to people trying to get a metro ticket, then run away before they realize it’s an old ticket (just kidding).

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If you surf on the catalogue of the public libraries of Paris, you can find a wonderful book with special origami patterns for subway tickets :-)

I’ve made quite a lot of jumpig frogs with metro tickets, my little sisters simply loved them!

Online catalogue of the Parisian libraries:
http://dac-opac-pret.paris.fr/cyberpac/

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Use them as reference bookmarks for things you read that you might want to refer back to later (you can tear/cut them into smaller pieces).

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This may sound silly. But you can use them as TP and save twice as much paper.

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this is obvious if you’re in college: use them as filters to smoke weed! ;P

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Cute bookmarks.

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