"Need for invention is cunning"

A paper clip is the simplest stationery tool that combines documents of the same type. Sometimes paper clips are stored at home. Few people know that these simple products can become an original accessory, tool, or some detail. Below are 10 original paper clip ideas.

Idea 1 Zip slider.

Sliders on the Lightning locks often break off and get lost. Especially those made of plastic. Let's try to make an original slider from a paper clip. Insert the paperclip into the mount for the slider.

And so that it does not look cheap, it is fashionable to disguise a paper clip by putting on it a piece of insulation from a cable, for example, a TV antenna, or the Internet. Cut to size and heat with a lighter so that the insulation fits snugly around the paperclip.

Trim excess. And carefully melt the edge.

The clip on the lock can also be decorated with a beautiful cord.

Idea 2. Smartphone tool

A small, thin paper clip should be unbent at one end, and the other part should be left bent, as a handle. Such a tool is useful in order to open the slot for a memory card or SIM card.

And in order not to look for this tool every time, you should store it with your phone accessories.

Idea 3. Smartphone stand

A large paper clip will do for this purpose. It must be bent, as in the picture

Idea 4. Hinges for string cornice

Medium-sized paper clips will be an excellent fixture for a string cornice. Colored paper clips of medium size will look beautiful here.

Idea 5. We repair glasses

Very often, in the places connecting the temple to the glasses, the connecting pins fly out. In this case, a paperclip will come to the rescue. It is necessary to bend its part, bend its upper edge by about 2-3 mm, bite off a couple of centimeters from the main part of the paper clip with wire cutters

And insert it with the long end in place of the dropped pin. The wire must be bent so that it does not fly out, but bite off the excess

Idea 6. Tape edge marker

In adhesive tape, you constantly have to look for its cut line. And since the adhesive tape is thin and transparent, with a smooth and even cut, it is practically invisible. But if you put a paperclip under the film near the cut line, it will become easier to find the tape.

When you cut off the tape for work, transfer the paperclip to the new edge.

Idea 7. Storing food in bags

Paper clips will become indispensable helpers in the kitchen. Suppose you bought a bag of sauce designed for a single use, but without a cap, or cat food in a bag, but divided into 2 portions, and did not immediately lay out the whole bag. In this case, the cut corner of the bag can be folded over twice and fixed with a paper clip. Now you can put it in the refrigerator. Also, you can fix bags with dry seasonings with paper clips, and then they will not run out of steam.

Or like this:

Idea 8. Bookmark "Heart"

This idea suits lovers of reading. If you bend the paperclip as shown in the figure

That will turn out to be such a bookmark for books. These bookmarks will look more interesting if you make them from colored paper clips.

Idea 9 We sew documents

With the help of stationery gum and a paper clip, you can make a folder. If there is a hole punch and the papers are punched, a rubber band is threaded into the finished hole, and on the back it is connected with an ordinary paper clip.

Idea 10. Ring and marker for keys.

These ideas will be useful to those who have to work, and generally deal with keys. If you unbend the paper clip and align it, and then roll it into a ring on something round (for example, on a cologne cap or any cylindrical tube), you get a convenient key ring.

We put keys on the ring

And if you are constantly confused about which keys are for which doors, or even at home everyone has the same keys, then, to distinguish them from each other, you can put on colored paper clips, and by them you can distinguish the keys hanging in housekeeper. Thanks to the colored paper clips, you will never make a mistake and take the wrong keys.