How can I reuse or recycle old subway or train tickets?
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?
(Photo by eurok)
Make art for you wall in the form of a collage or montage.
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).
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/
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).
This may sound silly. But you can use them as TP and save twice as much paper.
this is obvious if you’re in college: use them as filters to smoke weed! ;P
Cute bookmarks.
I know its a little disgusting, but I sometimes keep a few in my wallet to use as toothpicks – I have a gap between two teeth that a normal toothpick can’t fit into, and I’m always getting bits of apple stuck there, plus I get the train every day!
As I said, its a bit disgusting because of the possible dirt and grime, but as my Grandad always said “You have to eat a ton of it before you die!”
Put them in the spokes of your bicycle!