2 Kids Doodle Pad

Kids Doodle Pad: Who knew binder clips could be so helpful, and a lot less cheaper than buying the actual tools you need! Binder clips are cheap and always accessible, and even though they were created for one purpose, here are many other ideas on how binder clips can make life a little easier! (via Celine1107)

3 Binder Clip Cable Catcher

Binder Clip Cable Catcher (via jessica)

4 Hold Your Grocery List in Your Cart

Hold Your Grocery List in Your Cart: Carrying an endlessly versatile binder clip around in your pocket makes you see the world differently. Bring it to the grocery store, for example, and that grocery list that normally has nowhere to rest can attach to your cart as a kind of heads-up display. Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versatile Binder Clip Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versatile Binder Clip Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versati Patented 100 years ago to mitigate the time-consuming process of manually hole-punching and Read more Read more (via Life Hacker)

5 Bookmark

Bookmark: Who knew binder clips could be so helpful, and a lot less cheaper than buying the actual tools you need! Binder clips are cheap and always accessible, and even though they were created for one purpose, here are many other ideas on how binder clips can make life a little easier! (via Celine1107)

6 Emergency Cuff Links

Emergency Cuff Links: If you have two pair of small binder clips:then you also have a pair of emergency cuff links. (via kottke)

7 Make a Document Holder With A Single Binder Clip

Make a Document Holder With A Single Binder Clip: When we highlighted our favorite alternate uses for binder clips, it not only brought out the office supply lovers in the crowd, but neat new ideas as well. Nine Great Uses for Binder Clips Nine Great Uses for Binder Clips Nine Great Uses for Binder Clips Binder clips are the underdog of the office supply world. Everyone can rave about alternate uses Read more Read more (via Life Hacker)

8 Pimped-Out Pencil and Photo Holder

Pimped-Out Pencil and Photo Holder: This modern looking marvel is both functional and fashionable, and it’s super-easy to make! This project will only take a minute – unless of course you’re trying to avoid doing actual work at the office, in which case you can spend hours looking through photos to find just the right ones to display… (via sonja with a j)

9 Keep Tea Bags Out of the Way

Keep Tea Bags Out of the Way: Readers offer their best tips for working out at the office, using hooks throughout the house, and keeping the bag from slapping you in the face while drinking tea. (via Life Hacker)

10 Use Binder Clips to Mend Broken Keyboard Feet

Use Binder Clips to Mend Broken Keyboard Feet: Ben Franklin got it all wrong. Beer isn’t proof that God loves us, binder clips are. They’re so cheap, and possibly the perfect hacking material to solve little problems around the office. Like this one, which helps you fix the little feet at the back of your keyboard. (via Apartment Therapy)

11 Card Holder

Card Holder: Who knew binder clips could be so helpful, and a lot less cheaper than buying the actual tools you need! Binder clips are cheap and always accessible, and even though they were created for one purpose, here are many other ideas on how binder clips can make life a little easier! (via Celine1107)

12 Use a Binder Clip to Maintain Your Knife Sharpening Angle

Use a Binder Clip to Maintain Your Knife Sharpening Angle (via About.com)

13 Duvet Cover Set-Up Solution

Duvet Cover Set-Up Solution: If you’ve tried the most common methods but still go nuts whenever you’ve got to put your duvet cover back on your comforter, consider reader claudelepoisson’s advice and turn to one of our favorite multi-purpose office supplies: the binder clip. Put on a Duvet Cover Without Losing Your Mind Put on a Duvet Cover Without Losing Your Mind Put on a Duvet Cover Without Losing Your Mind Click to view Duvet covers offer versatility to your down comforter, and although they’re Read more Read more (via Life Hacker)

14 Wrapping Paper Clip

Wrapping Paper Clip: Who knew binder clips could be so helpful, and a lot less cheaper than buying the actual tools you need! Binder clips are cheap and always accessible, and even though they were created for one purpose, here are many other ideas on how binder clips can make life a little easier! (via Celine1107)

15 Photo Wall

Photo Wall: Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2 The white walls in your place have begun to loom, haven’t they? Glaring down at you, bare as the Gobi Desert when the (via Photojojo!)

16 Cell Phone Camera Stand

Cell Phone Camera Stand (via dkfotog)

17 Binder Clip Ball

Binder Clip Ball: This Instructable will show you how to turn 60 binder clips into a ball. With 5 dollar worth of borrowed storeroom clips you can be the envy of your cube farm. While searching Instructables at work one day, I came upon the binder clip sphere, http://www.instructables.com/community/Binder-clip-sphere/ I started playing with the clips by taking them apart and putting them back together in different ways. Through trial and error, I managed to create a binder clip ball. (via 69valentine)

18 iPhone Binder Clip Dock

iPhone Binder Clip Dock (via gizak)

19 Paper and Binder Clip Light Tent

Paper and Binder Clip Light Tent (via The Mostly Color Channel)

20 Hidden Pen Holder

Hidden Pen Holder: With two simple binder clips, you can make a subtle, effective pen holder for your favorite Moleskine! (via Tenn)

21 Build a Car Mount for Your Cellphone

Build a Car Mount for Your Cellphone: Reader Ryan Mottau built this awesome DIY smartphone car mount using our favorite DIY wonder-tool, the binder clip. Here’s how he did it. Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versatile Binder Clip Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versatile Binder Clip Our Favorite Office Objects: The Endlessly Versati Patented 100 years ago to mitigate the time-consuming process of manually hole-punching and Read more Read more (via Life Hacker)

22 Shelving Unit

Shelving Unit (via Livet Hemma)

23 Binder Clip Buddy

Binder Clip Buddy: These simple buddy can be used as many things. they can be used as bookmarks, paper weights and more. (via airsoftjim123)

24 Food Thermometer Holder

Food Thermometer Holder: Readers offer their best tips for storing secure data, dealing with stolen gadgets, and holding probe thermometers while cooking. (via Life Hacker)

25 Avoid Losing Socks in the Washing Machine

Avoid Losing Socks in the Washing Machine: If you’ve been walking around with mismatched socks for much of your life, you might want to consider these instructions. Socks can be a valuable asset to your wardrobe! This guide will help you find ways to keep them from getting lost so… (via wikiHow)

26 Binder Clip Catupult

Binder Clip Catupult: This is a low to no cost project. This is a binder clip catupult that launches coins. (via Goalie1)

27 Document Wall Organizer

Document Wall Organizer (via Unclutterer)

28 Cubicle Grenade

Cubicle Grenade: I had a few friends over, we were bored and then i made this! It is a a sharp grenade made of binder clips. (via acksteal4)

29 Pencil At-The-Ready

Pencil At-The-Ready (via Coloured Marbles)

30 Fashion Statement

Fashion Statement (via David Scrimshaw’s Blog)

31 Remote Control Light Switch Dimmer

Remote Control Light Switch Dimmer: Light switch too far across the room? Hate it when you’re starting to get it on and have to get up & walk across the room to dim the lights? Impress the geek boy/girl in your life with your clever use of fly fishing line & a binder clip! I actually came up with the basic design when i was 8 and terrified of turning off the lights before my head was under the blanket (because that’s when you’re the most vulnerable to monsters). This solved that problem also quite well, proving its usefulness & practicality for all ages. (via tymm)

32 Pants Management for Bikers

Pants Management for Bikers: This is the stuff they didn’t teach us in Home Ec back at Bowdish Junior High School in the Spokane Valley (go Rockets!): How to manage your pant leg so it doesn’t get caught in the bike chain. Whi (via Bike Style Life)

33 Coffee Filter Holder

Coffee Filter Holder: Check out these cool pictures on new uses for binder clips. Brought to you by San Antonio’s professional organizer, Vanessa Hayes of Get Simplifized. (via get simplifized!)

34 Emergency Eyeglass Repair

Emergency Eyeglass Repair (via David Scrimshaw’s Blog)

35 Sweeping the Ceiling

Sweeping the Ceiling (via Megan Butcher)

36 Desk Sculptures

Desk Sculptures: What can you do with binder clips? The question should really be “what can’t you do?” From kitchen hacks to children’s toys, check out the many uses for this little office gadget. (via Wise Bread)

37 Attach Anything to Your Mac with a Binder Clip

Attach Anything to Your Mac with a Binder Clip: If you’re running a bit low on storage space on your desk, reader Max points out that most Apple computers, including iMacs and MacBooks, have a magnetic screen that’s great for storing stuff. Attach a binder clip to it, and suddenly you can store all kinds of things. (via Life Hacker)

38 Hanging pots, pans, and their lids on bedroom curtain

Hanging pots, pans, and their lids on bedroom curtain (via dashingdays)

39 Hang Recipes From a Cabinet Door

Hang Recipes From a Cabinet Door: With the explosion of food blogs in the last couple of years, there are more recipes available at the tip of your fingers than ever before. Craving chocolate chip cookies or Sriracha-flavored anything? You’re guaranteed to have several thousand versions to choose from. So that’s how they did it before the Internet… If you like to print out recipes to reference while you cook, it can be difficult to find a convenient place where they’re easy to see and don’t get in the way. But with a little modification, your kitchen cabinets make perfect recipe holders. Here are just three quick and easy (via WonderHowTo)

40 Keep Tall Boots from Slouching

Keep Tall Boots from Slouching: During the colder months, it seems like almost everyone wears boots. Even when it’s hot out, people can be spotted with knee-highs and westerns. Whether it’s for fashion or because you live in a place where 3 feet of snow is common, a good pair of boots (or five) is nice to have. The biggest problem comes in storage. In both women’s and men’s boots, if the material doesn’t hold its shape very well, they end up folding in half, which can cause a permanent crease. Or, they just keep falling over. If you have a lot of boots, eventually your closet ends up looking like this: Of course, there are (via WonderHowTo)

41 Artwork Hanger

Artwork Hanger: Who knew binder clips could be so helpful, and a lot less cheaper than buying the actual tools you need! Binder clips are cheap and always accessible, and even though they were created for one purpose, here are many other ideas on how binder clips can make life a little easier! (via Celine1107)

42 Razor Safety Cover

Razor Safety Cover (via Dinosaurs and Robots)

43 Binder Clip as Picture Frame

Binder Clip as Picture Frame: Make your home office supplies work overtime with these unexpected twists. (via Real Simple)

44 Neatly Wrap Up Cables or Headphones

Neatly Wrap Up Cables or Headphones: If you need to wrap up cables or headphones but don’t want to deal with zip ties or twisty ties, you can simply use binder clips to easily hold them together for storage. (via Life Hacker)

45 Keep Your Shower Curtain from Attacking You

Keep Your Shower Curtain from Attacking You: Most people have experienced the inevitable shower curtain attack, in which it slowly gets blown into the tub during a shower, thus the “attack.” However, you can weigh your shower curtain down by clipping some binder clips to the bottom of it. (via Life Hacker)

46 Hang Your Headphones Anywhere with Two Binder Clips

Hang Your Headphones Anywhere with Two Binder Clips: If you need a better way to store your headphones without them cluttering up your desk, reader Bruno Tagliani shares his solution: a tiny contraption built with nothing but two cheap binder clips. (via Life Hacker)

47 Deflate Things Faster with the Help of a Binder Clip

Deflate Things Faster with the Help of a Binder Clip (via h2orat)

48 Binder Clip Organizer

Binder Clip Organizer (via David Scrimshaw’s Blog)

49 Finger Workout

Finger Workout: One big mauly clip and one little mauly clip and it is amazing how much damage you can do… Materials: 1 big mauly clip 1 small mauly clip (via yoyoyo)

50 Keep Beer Stacked

Keep Beer Stacked (via Matthew Petty)

51 Keep Hanging Folders from Sliding

Keep Hanging Folders from Sliding: Lifehacker reader Mike came up with a cheap, handy solution to the problem of hanging folders sliding back and forth every time he opened a filing drawer. By attaching some basic binder clips to his drawer’s folder rails, his folders are no longer victim to the forces of momentum, and files he wants to keep within quick reach stay that way. Add folder management to a growing list of clip-enabled DIY solutions including a makeshift cable catcher, toothpaste tube maintainer and, of course, Merlin Mann’s Hipster PDA. Binder clipsis there anything they can’t do? Photo provided by Mike. Read more Read more (via Life Hacker)

52 Holding Up Sleeves

Holding Up Sleeves (via David Scrimshaw’s Blog)

53 Money Clip or Wallet

Money Clip or Wallet: What can you do with binder clips? The question should really be “what can’t you do?” From kitchen hacks to children’s toys, check out the many uses for this little office gadget. (via Wise Bread)

54 Keep the toothpaste tube squeezed

Keep the toothpaste tube squeezed: We knew binder clips hold together Hipster PDA’s, make good chip clips and do well to catch your cables before they slip off the back of the desk, but keeping a tube of toothpaste squeezed? That’s a new one on us. Got any other clever or unexpected uses for stuff? Send us photos to tips at lifehacker Thanks, TFB! (via Life Hacker)

55 Hipster PDA

Hipster PDA: This article was originally posted during the first week of 43 Folders’ existence, and, pound for pound, it remains one of the most popular page on the site. Please be sure to also visit related pages, browse our Hipster PDA topic area, plus, of course (via 43 Folders)

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