Summer fun with Phone books!

Often a new business or resident would have to wait for their listing until the next year. We live in a time when the phone book as become as useless as cassette tapes! It is faster and more efficient to use the internet for 90% of our calls (99% of mine).New businesses can be online within weeks not months if listing are done correctly, which companies like BizNdex can help them achieve.

In the meantime what do you do with all of those phone books that are being dropped off other than recycle them. Here are some creative things you can do with those phone books.

1. Door Stopper

2. Make a booster seat for your child. Most of us probably remember sitting on a phone book to reach the dining room table better. Go a step further and cover the phone book with some cotton batting and a fabric remnant to make it even more comfortable.

3. Use them, sheet by sheet, as an alternative to paper towels. Clean windows and mirrors. Go a step further and use your own homemade glass cleaner, too.

4. Have a fire place, outdoor fire pit, or charcoal grill? Use your phone book pages for kindling.

5. Crumple the pages into balls to use as packaging filler for delicate objects.

6. Next time your kid needs to papier mache something, use pages from your old phone books.

7. Shred or tear the pages and use them as bedding in your worm bin.

8. Or, shred the pages up and add them to your compost pile.

9. Use stacks of the pages (10 pages thick or so) to kill the grass where you want a new garden bed. Simply lay the stacks of pages over the grass (overlapping them a bit),…

10. When chopped up and mixed with cement it makes an excellent building material that is highly insulation.

On line is where businesses should be because consumers are no longer using phones books to look up numbers.

Have other creative ideas for using the yellow pages phone books? Leave your comments below!

Tony Darrick Baker  

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