Did you know that you can make a lot of useful things from clips?

The human brain is sometimes able to generate simply startling ideas, some of them are weird, others are useful, others are just gay. Most of the inventions are born in moments of extreme boredom, especially this assumption is true for various household items, or rather, unconventional ways of using them, which are often invented by people. Well, how could the manufacturers of ordinary stationery products suggest that it is possible to make a bookmark or a funny toy, an ornament or open it a door lock and even handcuffs from staples?

All ingenious is simple

The birth of a classic paper clip that looks like two ovals twisted from a piece of steel wire 8 cm long had a rather thorny path. The year of her birth can be considered the 1899th, when the Norwegian engineer Juhan Voler was shown several variants of this office item. Then he did not believe that it was possible to make a sold and popular product from staples, and refused to deal with this project, but he was successfully developed by the British. The company Gem Manufacturing Company Ltd released in mass production this invention, not having lost with such a solution.

In addition to its direct designation - fastening paper sheets, the miniature metal stapler got a second life in the form of a wide variety of variations. Crafts from staples are bookmarks, pickpockets, bijouterie, postcards, interior decor and toys.

You will not believe!

For residents of severe Norway, the clip became a symbol of resistance to the occupation fascist troops. The inhabitants of this country wore it on clothes in protest and unity. This historical fact became the reason that ordinary and uncomplicated stationery has several monuments, some of which are located in Russia, and even the architects could not ignore the clip by creating several variants of buildings in the form of a swirling piece of wire.

The use of a paper clip, however, is not limited. Here are the top 5 proofs that it is possible to make completely rational and useful things from clips:

• Use as a "dog" for zippers on clothes, shoes or a backpack;
• The bent end of the paper clip makes it easy to clean the clogged hole of a small diameter (in a garlic pressure jar, a salt shaker, a tube of glue);
• A clip is an excellent limiter for the constantly missing edge of the tape;
• Men who wear a tie, but often forget to put on special clamps that hold this accessory in place, can use a small assistant from the world of the office;
• Classics of the genre are bookmarks from clips, and we will devote the next section to them.

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Agree that losing the right page in a book, diary or even a simple magazine is always an unpleasant and irritating moment. Especially angry is such a loss, when the necessary information must be found in record time. Avoid this help familiar to many from the school desk desk. Of the clips, this accessory is very easy to make, the photo shows several options for how the wire can be twisted, giving it an original shape.

A quality paper clip is made of fairly dense metal, otherwise it will simply not be able to hold the sheets together, and therefore making such masterpieces by hand will be problematic, the needleworkers use flat or round pliers for this.

Torsion and bending of the wire can be avoided if you decorate the paper clip with something. There are absolutely no restrictions: flags of ribbons or paper, buttons, flowers, beads and rhinestones glued to the edge of the paper clip, will make of it a stylish and exclusive bookmark.

On the eve of the holiday

Many needlewomen hardly suspected that it is possible to make from a clip-on a wonderful girly toy-hanger, which can easily be transformed into a magnificent Christmas decoration. This is an excellent solution for organizing the wardrobe of your favorite baby doll. Also later, on the cute miniature hangers from the locker for Barbie, it's enough to glue paper sweaters and different Christmas attributes and make in a simple way excellent Christmas toys made of paper clips.

Another option is to use original office accessories - to make a postcard from clips. For this, it is best to choose not classic steel, but multi-colored office clips. Colored shells on the wire can be all kinds of shades, it's very easy to lay out differently shaped figures from such bright ovals - snowflakes, fir-trees or flowers.

Office Love

Another holiday, which can be decorated with a paper clip, is Valentine's Day. A real find for this is the heart of the clip. Making it simple is easy, you just need to bend the longer oval up, making the center of the heart. The most effective look will be crafts made of wire braided, the best is to take the traditional for this romantic holiday colors - pink, red or lilac.

After the transformation, this clip can also be used for the direct purpose - to join a stack of sheets, also the heart of a paper clip will decorate a very tiny valentine or a large postcard, it can attach a note on a gift or a bouquet of flowers.

A little hooliganism

Most likely, if the readers of this publication were men, it's a little offensive to them that the majority of tips and methods for transforming the clip are ideas for girls. Indeed, it is much easier to make a necklace from a paper clip or some other pretty trinket, but especially for young (and quite mature) hooligans we have found a way to create amusing entertainment from office supplies.

Here is a mini-slingshot, no doubt, brighten up a boring lesson at school or a dull day in the office. To make it, you will need one clip (it is better to take a large one), a thin massacre for money and shells. As a shooting material, you can use small strips of paper, folded in half in the middle.