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

Question: is it possible to use plastic cards alternatively in everyday life when they are no longer used for their intended purpose? After all, throwing it away is the most irrational thing. Answer: you can. At the same time, many more ways exist and will be invented.

Just a map

It turns out that even in their original form - a plastic rectangle - cards can be very useful. For example, I wrap decorative cords around them for needlework: they are stored compactly and do not get tangled. Let me give you a few more examples:

• • Knife. This function is especially relevant somewhere on an outdoor picnic. Taking a knife with you is not always convenient and safe. But the card is compact, convenient, and not dangerous.
  • Scraper for cars. The card is ideal for clearing snow and ice from windshields 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 you don’t have a real spoon at hand.
  • Ruler. A plastic cutter will help you quickly draw a small straight line when you don't have a real ruler nearby.
  • "Portion man." The card can divide bulk solids into equal parts. For example, to prepare a dish, a cleaning product, a mask: take 1 part of this, 2 parts of that... Sound familiar? It is convenient to separate these parts using a map.
  • Keyboard cleaning tool. The thickness of the card makes it easy to scoop out all the junk that magically accumulates between the buttons on your keyboard. And if you wrap the card with a damp cloth, there will be dust too.

A plastic card will make an excellent multifunctional toy. Give it to the baby. You'll be surprised how many ways he can use it. It will be a table, a rug, a sled, a crib, money and God knows what else.

Card plus hands

If you do a little magic (cut, bend), then the card can give you a lot of other useful things that will be useful in everyday life:

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

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

• • Stand for phone or TV remote control. You can come up with many options: simply cut out the desired shape or build an entire structure.
  • Construction patch. Unnecessary holes and recesses in the walls can be easily repaired by cutting out a patch of the desired size and shape from a card. Glue will help us.
  • Deflector for camera flash. Especially relevant for photographers.
  • Mediator. Anyone who plays guitar will definitely appreciate it.

• Office knife for opening letters. The design is somewhat reminiscent of a bottle opener and works great.
• Organizer for small items. By making several holes in it, you can attach, for example, resistors or fishing hooks, baits, and lures to the card for storage.Everything is in one place and in your pocket.
• Battery cover. These covers always get lost on TV remotes! What if you cut a replacement out of a plastic card?

Map, hands, creative

And if your imagination is all right, and you have the right hands (there are no problems with cutting, cutting, melting, bending, pasting, gluing), then plastic courts can make wonderful things:

• • Small pots for compact plants. The cards are glued together like a box without a lid. Or you can decorate a ready-made rectangular container of a suitable size with cards.
  • Exclusive jewelry (by the way, not always stupid): earrings, pendants, bracelets, rings. You just need to cut the right parts from the right parts.
  • Name pendants or keychains. If you correctly cut out your personal data from the card, why not? Exclusive!

• • Frames for mirrors, paintings or photographs. Unique DIY decor!
  • Mosaic of cut card parts. It can be used, for example, to lay out a panel, a coffee table top, a kitchen apron, a business card holder, a banknote holder, or even segments of a garden path. Or maybe something else?

• Marking plates. The name, variety, sowing date - all this is applied with white paint on a card previously painted black. Ideal accessories for advanced gardeners or gardeners! Just don’t forget to attach it to the holders.
• Exclusive chandelier. You will need several cards and a Soviet chandelier with many “crystal” pendants. It is instead of them that we attach our cards.
• Children's puzzle. If you put several cards next to each other and stick a common picture on them, and then cut it all, such a puzzle will serve your child for a long time.

Finally, let me remind you that it is prudent to keep valid cards in your wallet. After all, if they are damaged, you will have to pay the bank for reissue. But unnecessary ones are a different matter. You give a second life to the unnecessary!

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

Olga Cherenetskaya studied the hidden functionality of plastic cards

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