25+ crafts - the use of plastic cards in everyday life for those who have hands and ingenuity

I won’t discover America if I say that we live in the era of plastic cards. Banks, shops, brands, clubs produce them for different purposes. Sometimes all deposit, credit, discount, savings and other cards are not placed in any wallet. And over time, we just stop using some of them. Question: Is it possible to use plastic cards in everyday life when they are no longer used for their intended purpose? After all, throwing it away is the most irrational. Answer: it is possible. In this case, there are many more that will be invented.

Just a map

It turns out that even in its original form - a rectangle of plastic - cards can be very useful. For example, I wind decorative cords for needlework on them: they are stored compactly and are not confused. I will give some more examples:

• Knife. This function is especially relevant somewhere at an outdoor picnic. It is not always convenient and safe to take a knife with you. But the card is compact, convenient, moreover, it is not traumatic.
• Scraper for a car. The card is ideal for cleaning windshields from snow and ice in winter.
• Putty knife. And what? Plastic can successfully replace this tool during repair work. They say that cards are sometimes even more convenient than a professional tool.



• Shoehorn. A portable assistant will help out if there is no real spoon at hand.
• Ruler. A plastic slice will help to quickly draw a small flat line when there is no real ruler nearby.
• "Portionist". The card can divide bulk solids into equal parts. For example, for cooking, cleaning products, masks: take 1 part of it, 2 parts of it ... Is that familiar? Using the card, these parts are conveniently separated.
• Keyboard cleaning tool. The thickness of the card makes it easy to squeeze out all the garbage that magically accumulates between the buttons on your keyboard. And if you wrap the card with a damp cloth - and the dust too.

An excellent multifunctional toy will come out of the plastic card. Give it to the baby. You will be surprised how many ways of applying it to him he will find. It will be a table, rug, sled, crib, money and God knows what else.

Card plus hands

If you conjure a little (crop, bend), then the card can get a ton of all sorts of different utilities that are useful in everyday life:

• Tab for books. Book lovers will definitely like it. If you cut out the similarity of the holder from the card (for example, in the shape of a bird or palm), it will separate the desired page and hold it together.



• Holders, organizers for cords, wires, headphones from the phone. A few holes and slots - all the work.
• Holders wires office equipment on the table. They always fall and get lost somewhere on the floor. The card will help to “tame” them.



• Stand for phone or remote control from the TV. You can come up with many options: just cut out the desired shape or build an entire structure.
• Building patch. Unnecessary holes and recesses in the walls can be easily fixed by cutting out a patch of the desired size and shape from the card. Glue to help us.
• Camera flash deflector. Especially relevant for photographers.
• Mediator. Who plays the guitar will appreciate it.



• Office knife for opening letters. The design is somewhat reminiscent of a bottle opener, it works perfectly.
• Organizer for small items. After making several holes in the card, you can attach for storage, for example, resistors or fishing hooks, bait-baits. All in one place and in your pocket.
• Battery cover. On the remote controls from the TV, these covers are always lost! And if you cut the replacement out of a plastic card?

Card, hands, creative

And if everything is fine with your imagination, and even where you need your hands (there are no problems with cutting, cutting, melting, bending, gluing, gluing), then plastic things can turn out beautiful things:

• Small flowerpots for compact plants. Cards are glued according to the principle of boxes without a lid. Or you can decorate with cards a finished rectangular container of a suitable size.
• Exclusive jewelry (by the way, far from always stupid): earrings, pendants, bracelets, rings. It is only necessary to cut suitable parts from suitable parts.
• Named pendants or key rings. If you correctly cut your personal data from the card - why not? Exclusive!



• Frames for mirrors, paintings or photographs. Unique decor with your own hands!
• Mosaic from cut pieces of cards. It can be laid out, for example, panels, countertops, coffee tables, kitchen aprons, card holders, bills or even segments of the garden path. Or maybe something else?



• Marking Plates. Name, grade, sowing date - all this is applied with white paint on a card pre-painted in black. Ideal accessories for advanced gardeners or gardeners! Only attach to the holders do not forget.
• Exclusive chandelier. It will take a few cards and a Soviet chandelier with many "crystal" pendants. It is instead of them that we fasten our cards.
• Children's puzzle. If you put several cards next to each other and paste a general picture on them, and then cut it all, such a puzzle will serve the baby for a long time.

Finally, I remind you that it is prudent to keep existing cards in your wallet. Indeed, in the event of their damage, you will have to pay the bank for a reissue. But unnecessary ones are another matter. Unnecessary - give a second life!

Or maybe you will come up with new opportunities for them?

The hidden functionality of plastic cards was studied by Olga Cherenetskaya

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