Mary (macka) received her stuffed envelope yesterday for the Paper Scrap Swap that I had sent. Here’s what she had to say: “WOW what a great assortment of paper scraps. You really sent a great variety and stickers too. I know I am going to have fun using them. Thanks so much.” Let the paper party begin!

I added a bunch of different papers that included:

• Halloween cardstock
• Glittery opaque velum
• Baby zoo animal paper
• Summer brites cardstock
• Stickers and more

I made this book the other day. It’s a concertina binding which I then added a coptic style binding to, to make the spine hold together.

Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the spine.

My book binding inspiration (and instructions) came from this book. I’m going to try to make some more books this week.

It’s amazing what you can do with just a small piece of scrap paper.  One of the woman from the Muse Council, Michelle, brought this scrap paper to our last meeting.  I liked the aqua color so I decided to use it.  I cut out circles, glued them into my upholstery button tops, then added little bees.  I poured resin on top.

I have a bunch of  upholstery button hardware. I’ve been using the 1″ diameter button tops to make charms. When I found this smaller variety recently at an estate sale I decided to try some smaller resin charms.  I drilled a hole in the them, slipped a head pin inside and wire-wrapped a loop at the top to make my charms.

I made a set of five leaf and flower resin charms from my upholstery button tops. The little brass flowers are vintage findings. The leaves are from glue-on necklace bales.

I decided to experiment a bit with the resin and upholstery button covers. I added some think vintage paper with text and put transparent mulberry paper over the top. The resin seeped underneath the paper giving it some darkened spots.  I’m still deciding if this is a good look or not.  I think the darkened spots make the paper look aged.  You can’t really see the mulberry paper.

I made a couple of resin leaf and flower charms. They would make a cute pair of earrings.

I have a lot of upholstery button hardware.  I think you’ll be seeing a few more resin charms…and who knows what else.

nom nom nom.
this is for nick. <3

so, i tried blogger.
tried livejournal.
tried myspace blog…

to no satisfaction.

wordpress is the best.
i am returning here.
and here is where i shall stay.

Your order came today.  You break the seal on the paper pack.  You cautiously flip through the paper, eager to see it, smell it, and get acquainted, but you are careful not to bend the corner or ripple the edge.  And, when you pull the pictures out and get ready to scrapbook, is there a part of you that is a little hesitant?  You want to create, but waste an entire piece of cardstock for the background that will barely show *or not*?  I think not.

Enter the “junk paper.”  Oh, we’ve all got it: paper that you no longer want…perhaps it was an impulse purchase, a white paper insert from your album pages, or a piece that just isn’t to your liking.  So, repurpose it!  Want not, waste not: make it the “back” of your page.  Assemble your art on top of it.  And, no longer waste that precious cardstock.  Make more pages from your paper pack…

Oh, yea, baby!  I got your back!

Unforgettable Paper Pack

Tara Hamilton,

Independent Consultant, Close To My Heart

here’s a way to go green and to save money by reusing paper: make your own post-it notes. office supply stores, even discount and possibly some grocery stores, sell repositionable glue sticks. (keep them separate from regular glue sticks or your kids will be frustrated when trying to finish a project for school.) they look like traditional adhesive but they’re restickable. instead of buying more post-its or decorative pads of paper, which you’re just going to throw away anyway after you’ve bought all the groceries on your list, reuse paper you’ve got all over the house. such as,

• the backs of coupons from those unsolicited packets you get in the mail
• the extra sheet of blank paper that always comes out at the end of a batch of things you’ve printed off wikipedia
• the back of some mapquest directions you no longer need
• the back of homemade ads for lawn care that people stick on your front door knob
• the backs of store receipts

homemade sticky notes are also useful for

• cutting out store ads to remind you of random items you keep forgetting to buy (like printer ink, dish soap, grilling charcoal)
• newspaper clippings for events or classified ads
• rebates/ warranties you don’t want to lose
• an encouraging note from a friend you’ve saved so you can look at it often
• your child’s progress report/ reminder about a school event
• dilbert cartoons for your cubicle

Posted this in gaia forums…
i get more response there.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/chatterbox/i-want-them/t.46085991/

I joined the De-Stash-along 2009 craftalong on Craftster.org!  Oh, fun, fun, fun!  I really need to pare down what I have and stop buying stuff just because it’s on sale! 

So, anyway, I went out and took pictures of the garage workshop and of my piles of scrap paper I intend to use up one of these days.  I hope that in sharing my addiction that I can actually make some progress toward de-stashing what i have! 

Here’s a photo of the garage shop:

And here’s the pile of scrap cardstock and miscellaneous tid-bits that I want to get rid of.  I save every piece of scrap paper I make because I keep telling myself, “I may be able to use that later!” 

I make almost all of my lists on scrap paper. Yes, it would be nice to have my lists on nice stationary or other pretty paper, but since it gets thrown away after a short period of time, why spend the money on fancy memo pads?

If I print a coupon or something that does not fill the entire page, I will cut out what I printed and then cut up the rest of the paper (usually in quarters or thirds) to use for scrap paper.

Some of my scrap paper also comes from junk mail or newspaper inserts. If one side is blank, I will cut the paper into quarters and add them to my pile of scrap paper in my desk or my miscellaneous drawer in the kitchen.

Always be on the lookout for scrap paper. And when you can, use both sides before throwing it out. Much of my printer paper has both sides used. Just be sure to cross out the side that you are not using, so you don’t get confused.

Check out other tips at BlogMommas.com.

Hey guys, I’m looking to buy scrap papers like white bond paper, newsprint and carton/corrugated boxes. The more, the merrier and the best part of it all, I’m willing to do pick-ups! (Depending on quantity of course)

I’m also looking for a lot or warehouse to rent or lease. Looking at around 100sqm, around the Manila area. Willing to consider other areas as well.

Please feel free to message me here or contact me via YM: jason_qua. I’m almost always online.

Thank you homies!

MUDGE’s Musings

We embark this weekend on a business trip to a conference in Boston. As conferences usually take up a great deal of uptime, without the downtime associated with a normal schedule, we will probably cover many of our daily blogging deadlines with Blasts from the Past!

The conference itself, designed to illuminate the social networking phenomena in the context of business and corporate conduct, may provide the opportunity to blog, as blogging in the corporate environment is one of its key topics. So we may be able to mix business interests and responsibilities with our avocation in this space. Should be interesting!

There’s most read, and then there’s favorite. This is a post which yr (justifiably) humble svt is, regrettably, but not regretfully, not at all humble about.

Blast from the Past!

A post we really, really loved to write, and read, and re-read…

From last summer, originally posted September 10, 2007 and originally titled “China – Two interesting aspects”.

MUDGE’S Musings

China is always in the news. Two stories from the past few days illuminate why in some interesting ways.

First, from the LA Times, a look at how we have become victim’s of our unlimited appetite for everyday low prices.

Analysts expect prices in the U.S. to creep up as safety standards are reevaluated. Buyers and retailers may share the impact.

By Don Lee and Abigail Goldman
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 9, 2007

SHANGHAI — Get ready for a new Chinese export: higher prices.

For years, American consumers have enjoyed falling prices for goods made in China thanks to relentless cost cutting by retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target.

But the spate of product recalls in recent months — Mattel announced another last week — has exposed deep fault lines in Chinese manufacturing. Manufacturers and analysts say some of the quality breakdowns are a result of financially strapped factories substituting materials or taking other shortcuts to cover higher operating costs.

Now, retailers that had largely dismissed Chinese suppliers’ complaints about the soaring cost of wages, energy and raw materials are preparing to pay manufacturers more to ensure better quality. By doing so, they hope to prevent recalls that hurt their bottom lines and reputations. But those added costs — on a host of items that include toys and frozen fish — mean either lower profits for retailers or higher prices for consumers.

“For American consumers, this big China sale over the last 20 years is over,” said Andy Xie, former Asia economist for Morgan Stanley, who works independently in Shanghai. “China’s cost is going up. They need to get used to it.”

The low hanging fruit of lowest prices for decent quality has run into a rising standard of living in China, and the results have been ugly.

The bulk of the world’s toys are made in southeastern China, where wages have shot up in the last couple of years amid greater competition for workers and increases in minimum wages and living costs. Booming demand has pushed up commodity prices. The appreciation of the Chinese yuan, up 9% against the dollar in the last two years, also has hurt some factories, as they are paid in dollars.

Follow the link to the rest of the story, reported from Shanghai.

[Per L-HC's reformed process, please click the link below for the complete article -- but then please come on back!]

Los Angeles Times: Fixing Chinese goods will be costly

So, what with rising wages, increases in commodity prices, the unexpected new costs of safety inspections, prices for toys, tilapia, luggage, and an entire big box store full of consumer necessities (and not so) will go up.

So, now let’s turn to the other side of the consumer equation, courtesy of the always perceptive Daniel Gross of Slate.

Pundits bemoan our trade deficit with China. But those container ships aren’t heading home empty.

By Daniel Gross
Posted Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, at 7:59 AM ET

Economists make a big deal out of all the junk we import from China: tainted pet food, lead-laced toys, and enough cheap plastic tchotchkes to load up a landfill the size of Montana. And American industries are clearly being drenched by the rising tide of Chinese imports, which totaled $288 billion in 2006. But as imports from China loudly rise, American exports to China are quietly rising at an even more rapid pace. Would it surprise you to learn that a lot of those exports are … junk?

In an act of macroeconomic karma, materials thrown out by Americans—broken-down auto bodies, old screws and nails, paper—accounted for $6.7 billion in exports to China in 2006, second only to aerospace products. Junkyards may conjure up images of Fred Sanford’s ratty collection of castoffs. But these days, scrap dealers are part of a $65 billion industry that employs 50,000 people, who together constitute a significant arc of a virtuous circle. The demand of China’s factory bosses for junk—which they recycle to make all the junk Americans buy from China—creates jobs, tamps down the growth of the trade deficit, and might help save the planet.

Exports to China second only to aerospace products? Junk?

And this is a good story for all of you greens out there (MUDGE is always happy to assist his environmentally sensitive fellow citizens. Feel free to use yesterday’s post to wrap fish.):

The booming China trade isn’t simply good news for shareholders of Metal Management, whose stock is up 67 percent in the past year. It’s good news for tree-huggers. Every scrap of scrap put on a slow boat to China is one less scrap that winds up in a landfill or an incinerator. Asia’s insatiable demand for scrap has boosted prices, thus encouraging companies to suck more reusable junk out of garbage piles.

An interesting twist, eh? The imbalance is less so. That’s always good news.

Take a look:

[Per L-HC's reformed process, please click the link below for the complete article -- but then please come on back!]

The junk we send to China. – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine

A couple of things about this story are intriguing.

1) The story refers to corrugated paper, a key element of MUDGE’s once family business. $130 ton for scrap corrugated boxes (the brown shipping containers everything wears to market) is an astounding price.

2) The idea of sending scrap overseas resonates in a slightly unpleasant way with us ancient curmudgeons. MUDGE was born after WWII (believe it or not!), but the lessons of that conflict were fresh.

In the years before Pearl Harbor projected the U.S. belatedly into a conflict that had started up in Asia in the early Thirties, scrap iron and steel in massive quantities made its way across the Pacific to, wait for it, Japan.

It was a bitter realization that many of those junked Model T’s and scrapped steam heating radiators were sent back to our combatants as Japanese aircraft and ships and bombs.

Is it too paranoid to make an association with cheerfully sending our scrap to a rapidly arming and increasingly assertive about its global destiny China?

So, two interesting China stories, one from each container port.

And did you catch the punch line from the LA Times piece?

Meanwhile, Skyway is gearing up to open a factory this fall in Vietnam, where wages are lower.

“I think the consumer will not accept the full impact of price increases from China,” Wilhoit said. “We’re going to have to do things differently, like Vietnam, to get the same quality stuff on the shelf and make money.”

The mind boggles.

It’s it for now. Thanks,

–MUDGE

These are pictures of two recycled notebooks I made. Thankfully, my mother likes to study languages by writing down words repetitively, so these notebooks are useful around the house.
It is surprising how much one-sided paper is thrown away every day in institutions that have a printer and copier. I’m happy to see paper being used to its every square inch.

I’ve seen notebooks like these being sold on Etsy and at the Paper Source (the one they carried had folded the pages so that the printed side of the paper would not be visible. Thus the pages were bulky), but so far, the best thing to do is make these yourself and use them at home — you probably don’t want to sell your personal documents via printed matter in the notebook.

I hope to find a way to collect non-private documents so that they can be made into distributable notebooks.

This is a game called This is A Watch
I want to try it in drama class tomorrow :] 

Game Type: Concentration

Age Range: 7+

Number of Participants: 5-20

Materials: As many one syllable objects as participants- pen, book, etc.

Explanation: The object of the game is to pass the object or objects around the circle without stopping or breaking the rhythm of the script– eventually, the group should be able to complete a circle in which everyone has an object.

How to Play: The participants sit in a circle. One person has a watch (GIVER), which she will hand over to the person on her right (RECEIVER) once the lines are completed. The first time, the watch is passed from one person to the next, following the script (see below) until the watch is back at the beginning. Once everyone knows the lines exactly as written, the group can try two objects. The person with the watch again passes it to the right, but the person to the left of her hands her a pen AT THE SAME TIME that she is handing over the watch. This means that the person with the watch is saying both parts of the script – the GIVER’S and the RECEIVER’S part. The chart below will illustrate.

(The GIVER has a watch, and turns to the person on her right, the RECEIVER)

When there are two objects in the circle, someone is the GIVER and the RECEIVER simultaneously, and must say both sets of lines.

ARROWS indicate to whom the comment is directed

Notes: It is best to move from one object to two, then to three, and so on from there. Do not add another object until the group has successfully completed a circle with the number before. This is not an easy game for everyone to master, but nearly everyone can with some perseverance. I have taught this game to over two hundred different children, and only one of those did not learn it – he quit trying after the first time. Most likely, some participants will catch on faster than others, and become frustrated with those who are having difficulty with the rhythm. As soon as this occurs, it is time to say “Well, we have all been working very hard at this game. The next time we try it, maybe we will be able to give everyone an object.” Usually, the participants are eager enough to master the game that they will practice with others until you see them again. It may help to have the lines written on a large piece of paper for visual learners, and if you have an assistant or two, demonstrate the game with them.

 i got this game at:
http://www.creativedrama.com/theatre.htm

take it easy.

things happen, no matter how crappy the situation may look…
there is always some light on it somewhere.
look for the silver lining.

seriously though.
some people are just too angry with the world.

what happened to…
“live life with peace and love” ?

seriously dude, chill out. :]

Jim Sturgess.
Ah! I just absolutely adore him!

You don’t even have to look at him…
his voice alone can grab you.

Ah!
My first celebrity obsession ever!
xD

Oh, my…
i will meet him someday

Scruffy.
Haha.

Don’t ask… :]

Now, this is really just a nonsense blog. Get ready.

It’s Tuesday.
I just got back home from Publix and my mom is doing laundry, like always.
We started talking about how today didn’t feel like Tuesday, or a day at all for that matter.
So what day is it? Or rather, what day does it feel like?
We decided today was Sumotuwethfrsa day since we don’t know what day it feels like.
So everytime we want to ask someone what day is it, we are simply just going to ask “Sumotuwethfrsa?”
Which means “what day is it?”, obviously.

So, why Sumotuwethfrsa?
Just take the first two letters of each day of the week and slop ‘em together.
It starts on Sunday.

And for all of those brilliant readers out there…
this is how its pronounced:
Sue-Moe-To-Wuh-Thuh-Fruh-Suh. One word.

Soon enough my mom and I are gonna have our own language.
Good luck keeping up with us.

I made a page about me that you can see to the right of this site.

But for all you lazy people who don’t feel like looking, here is the link.

MUDGE’S Musings

China is always in the news. Two stories from the past few days illuminate why in some interesting ways.

First, from the LA Times, a look at how we have become victim’s of our unlimited appetite for everyday low prices.

Analysts expect prices in the U.S. to creep up as safety standards are reevaluated. Buyers and retailers may share the impact.

By Don Lee and Abigail Goldman
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 9, 2007

SHANGHAI — Get ready for a new Chinese export: higher prices.

For years, American consumers have enjoyed falling prices for goods made in China thanks to relentless cost cutting by retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target.

But the spate of product recalls in recent months — Mattel announced another last week — has exposed deep fault lines in Chinese manufacturing. Manufacturers and analysts say some of the quality breakdowns are a result of financially strapped factories substituting materials or taking other shortcuts to cover higher operating costs.

Now, retailers that had largely dismissed Chinese suppliers’ complaints about the soaring cost of wages, energy and raw materials are preparing to pay manufacturers more to ensure better quality. By doing so, they hope to prevent recalls that hurt their bottom lines and reputations. But those added costs — on a host of items that include toys and frozen fish — mean either lower profits for retailers or higher prices for consumers.

“For American consumers, this big China sale over the last 20 years is over,” said Andy Xie, former Asia economist for Morgan Stanley, who works independently in Shanghai. “China’s cost is going up. They need to get used to it.”

The low hanging fruit of lowest prices for decent quality has run into a rising standard of living in China, and the results have been ugly.

The bulk of the world’s toys are made in southeastern China, where wages have shot up in the last couple of years amid greater competition for workers and increases in minimum wages and living costs. Booming demand has pushed up commodity prices. The appreciation of the Chinese yuan, up 9% against the dollar in the last two years, also has hurt some factories, as they are paid in dollars.

Follow the link to the rest of the story, reported from Shanghai.

[Per L-HC's reformed process, please click the link below for the complete article -- but then please come on back!]

Los Angeles Times: Fixing Chinese goods will be costly

So, what with rising wages, increases in commodity prices, the unexpected new costs of safety inspections, prices for toys, tilapia, luggage, and an entire big box store full of consumer necessities (and not so) will go up.

So, now let’s turn to the other side of the consumer equation, courtesy of the always perceptive Daniel Gross of Slate.

Pundits bemoan our trade deficit with China. But those container ships aren’t heading home empty.

By Daniel Gross
Posted Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, at 7:59 AM ET

Economists make a big deal out of all the junk we import from China: tainted pet food, lead-laced toys, and enough cheap plastic tchotchkes to load up a landfill the size of Montana. And American industries are clearly being drenched by the rising tide of Chinese imports, which totaled $288 billion in 2006. But as imports from China loudly rise, American exports to China are quietly rising at an even more rapid pace. Would it surprise you to learn that a lot of those exports are … junk?

In an act of macroeconomic karma, materials thrown out by Americans—broken-down auto bodies, old screws and nails, paper—accounted for $6.7 billion in exports to China in 2006, second only to aerospace products. Junkyards may conjure up images of Fred Sanford’s ratty collection of castoffs. But these days, scrap dealers are part of a $65 billion industry that employs 50,000 people, who together constitute a significant arc of a virtuous circle. The demand of China’s factory bosses for junk—which they recycle to make all the junk Americans buy from China—creates jobs, tamps down the growth of the trade deficit, and might help save the planet.

Exports to China second only to aerospace products? Junk?

And this is a good story for all of you greens out there (MUDGE is always happy to assist his environmentally sensitive fellow citizens. Feel free to use yesterday’s post to wrap fish.):

The booming China trade isn’t simply good news for shareholders of Metal Management, whose stock is up 67 percent in the past year. It’s good news for tree-huggers. Every scrap of scrap put on a slow boat to China is one less scrap that winds up in a landfill or an incinerator. Asia’s insatiable demand for scrap has boosted prices, thus encouraging companies to suck more reusable junk out of garbage piles.

An interesting twist, eh? The imbalance is less so. That’s always good news.

Take a look:

[Per L-HC's reformed process, please click the link below for the complete article -- but then please come on back!]

The junk we send to China. – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine

A couple of things about this story are intriguing.

1) The story refers to corrugated paper, a key element of MUDGE’s once family business. $130 ton for scrap corrugated boxes (the brown shipping containers everything wears to market) is an astounding price.

2) The idea of sending scrap overseas resonates in a slightly unpleasant way with us ancient curmudgeons. MUDGE was born after WWII (believe it or not!), but the lessons of that conflict were fresh.

In the years before Pearl Harbor projected the U.S. belatedly into a conflict that had started up in Asia in the early Thirties, scrap iron and steel in massive quantities made its way across the Pacific to, wait for it, Japan.

It was a bitter realization that many of those junked Model T’s and scrapped steam heating radiators were sent back to our combatants as Japanese aircraft and ships and bombs.

Is it too paranoid to make an association with cheerfully sending our scrap to a rapidly arming and increasingly assertive about its global destiny China?

So, two interesting China stories, one from each container port.

And did you catch the punch line from the LA Times piece?

Meanwhile, Skyway is gearing up to open a factory this fall in Vietnam, where wages are lower.

“I think the consumer will not accept the full impact of price increases from China,” Wilhoit said. “We’re going to have to do things differently, like Vietnam, to get the same quality stuff on the shelf and make money.”

The mind boggles.

It’s it for now. Thanks,

–MUDGE

Simple Boredom Fighters

• Blow bubbles with bubble gum
• Blow on a beer bottle
• Blow on a blade of grass
• Crank up some music
• Cut out photos and paste them on Popsicle sticks and have a puppet show
• Eat
• Eat 6 spoon full of sugar, a soda, and another think that makes you hyper and then you won’t be bored anymore, you will end up finding something to do… trust us
• Experiment with makeup
• Get a bubble blower and then blow some
• Get a tootsie pop and see how many licks it takes to get to the center of the tootsie pop
• Laugh out loud
• Learn how to fake an accent
• Make a humorous crank phone call
• Make an entertaining phone answering-machine message
• Make up poems or songs about your boredom
• Nap
• Play cards
• Play Dead
• Play house with yourself
• Play with marbles
• Pop zits and blackheads, clean lint out of belly button, q-tips, and find those hidden treasures of the nose
• Practice your arm pit farting skills (Advanced participants try with your hand cupped on the back of your knee)
• Pretend that you are not bored
• Read some comic books
• See how long you can hold your breath
• Send a tune with keypad numbers on the phone
• Sing even if you can’t
• Spin until you’re dizzy
• Stand on your head
• Stare at the ceiling and try to make something out of the dots
• Write your name in permanent marker on all your underwear

Inside Boredom Fighters

• Break into a friend’s house and clean it
• Call a wrong number and talk to whoever answers.
• Catch a fly, then put in a jar and stick in the fridge (this cools their metabolism down), then tie the fly to the end of a thread 15in. and hold the other end of the thread while you watch it fly around (We have tested this and it works – a lot of patience is involved)
• Chase your best friend round the sofa
• Dance around your living room naked
• Doodle or cartoon
• Dress in something silly and laugh at yourself
• Fiddle around with a Ouija board
• Figure out how to get yourself on TV
• Find an address to your favorite famous person and write them a letter.
• See if they write you back
• Flip a coin 500 times to see who wins
• Get on the radio
• Give names to your body parts
• Go shop for a really cool book
• Go through the English dictionary looking up really long words like discombobulated.
• Have a carpet picnic
• Have a staring contest with yourself in the mirror.
• Kiss your elbow, if you can.
• Lay a long straight line of masking tape on the floor. Now spin around really fast then try walking on the masking tape.
• Learn a new word in the dictionary
• Learn to Juggle
• Learn to peel a banana with your feet
• Let a helium balloon float up to your ceiling and throw things at it to pop it
• Listen to a type of music that you don’t normally listen to
• Listen to really hard music and head bang
• Listen to some polka music and eat sausages
• Make a list of the fun things you’ve already done, then admire how long your list is.
• Make a trash can a basketball hoop and throw crumpled up paper for baskets
• Patch some clothing
• Phone your local government rep and see if you can convince him or her to have lunch with you
• Plan a journey
• Play bottle cap hockey…with pens as the sticks and a bottle cap as the puck
• Play dress-up with all the clothes you have in your closet
• Pronounce your friends names.backwards
• Put doll clothes on your cat and play dress up
• Rent a movie, 2 hours later go back to the same movie store and rent the sequel, 2 hours after that go back and get the third movie
• Rent some fun movies
• Roll your change
• Run around your house as fast as you can and, count how many times you can go without getting tired.
• Shave your head
• Sit at your desk with your left arm sticking out until it goes numb
• Snap your fingers as if suddenly you have a bright idea and see if you get any
• Take a company that has been getting on your nerves – find out who the person is that you should write complaints too. Write a letter to them with the most trivial or confusing complaint. Ensure you talk in circles so that the letter is well written but extremely confusing
• Take one hundred dollars out of the bank and spend it all on yourself
• Throw a huge party for no reason at all
• Turn on the T.V., put it on mute and make up dialogue
• Washable crayons are a wonderful invention. Pick a wall and invite friends
• Watch 101 Dalmatians and see if they really show 101 Dalmatians
• Watch a foreign film
• Watch cartoons (preferably funny stupid ones)
• Write a big list of fun things to do
• Write a limerick or twelve
• Write a rant letter to the paper
• Write out ten things that make you happy – then do one of them
• You and a friend pick your noses and see who has the biggest boogers

Outside Boredom Fighters

• Bring dog treats to the park and meet 25 new dogs
• Burn things with a magnifying glass
• Buy the craziest, most comfortable slippers you can find
• Climb a tree
• Find some crutches and pretend to have a broken leg
• Flip some coins into a fountain
• Flirt with people
• Go dumpster diving and see what you can find
• Go out and get your motorcycle license
• Go to a candy store and buy a ton of candy. Eat all day
• Go to the 24 hr grocery at 1 a.m.
• Have an egg toss
• Make a rope swing
• Make faces at strangers to make them laugh
• Play Frisbee
• Play knicky knicky nine doors leaving freaky anonymous notes behind
• Put bunny ears on people you don’t know (the two finger kind you know, like a peace sign)
• Skip rope
• Take your TV outside
• Try to stay up for 24 hours
• Volunteer for a charity
• Walk around a public park, every so often pretend to trip on a ‘invisible’ wire.
• Watch kids play – and then join in