And…. Just like that we are done. All of the sheets and trackers were turned in earlier this week.
John Drost went above and beyond to ensure any extra books, pallets odds and ends have been removed from the warehouse both inside and out.
Thank you to everyone that helped with this tremendous effort.
Just in case you still have any books at your house or in your car, here are few ideas of what you can do with them.
Check out Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/truecaller/crafts-for-old-phonebooks/
And from around the web:
In the House
Emergency toilet paper (Note: may not be the best for your pipes or septic system.)
Stack them under the table cloth to elevate a nice centerpiece.
Fold pages at angle from top outside corner to mid at center to make a door stop
Bullet-proof your house! Build 6-foot book shelves along all exterior walls within your house and line them with phone books. They make the best bullet stops there is, and it makes you look like an intellectual .when people stop by. Another option to do build these “bookshelves” alongside the front and back doors. It’ll give you something to duck behind when you have unwanted company…with guns.
Stack them to create a make-shift booster seat.
Insulation
Washing windows
Hollow one or two out to make some hidey holes for valuables
Wrap Christmas decorations and other fragile items to protect them in storage or shipment.
Wrap compost in it to carry to the bin, then just throw the whole thing in so you don’t have to worry about washing a dish or bucket out.
Uses for phone books in arts & crafts
Floor cover for little artists
Tear out the pages and use them for papier mâché
Coat pages in petroleum jelly. Roll them up and dip them in wax. Makes emergency candles that are also waterproof.
As a teenager I would use them as scrap books. Cover them with all kinds of art.
Save them and turn it into paper snow flakes. It’s what I do with my used non returnable textbooks
Pattern paper
Origami practice
Outdoors, Fires, and Animals (Pets)
Target practice
You can pack them in a box or wrap them up together for a safe backstop for dry fire practice with a gun.
Bullet penetration/expansion tests
Mix with ashes and lamp oil or kerosene to make fire logs
Tear out a few pages and stuff them into empty toilet paper tubes. Great firestarter.
Cage liners, especially shredded, for rabbits, birds, feral cats, etc. (better if mixed with hay)
Lay under tomatoes, under the straw for weed help
Tear them up and use them to smother weeds, putting mulch on top. Works better than the black plastic stuff, and the best part is that they degrade completely.
Use with this awesome tool to never run out of seed pots!
Shred for compost (except for the cover, which was probably treated with chemicals)
Worm bin
Jason
