I remember watching a Martha Stewart segment wherein she showed a wonderful shower curtain made by threading a few hundred jewel cases together with fishing line.

She made fine wind chimes that way as well. They didn't exactly "chime" as much as they "clacked" but they were just beautiful. There's nothing like sitting on your front porch listening to the clack of jewel case windchimes and watching rust grow on the cars up on blocks in your front yard.

I took the temples from an old pair of glasses I had around (you know the ones that are too big to be fashionable?). Using a cleverly fashioned bridge made from a u-bolt epoxied between two jewel cases, I affix the temples to the sides and, voila! glasses to use for a diguise when I want to go out in public without being recognized, and hounded by my thousands of fans.   ...or the police.

I keep thousands of old jewel cases in the back of my pickup truck. They add extra weight to help me get around on snow-slick streets in the winter. Then, if I should get stuck, I can shovel some beneath the tires and they give just that extra needed traction to get unstuck!

I also like to go to the nearby mall and pass them out to strangers. They always seem to appreciate it.

You can use old jewel cases and your Microsoft Publisher and make vanity CD covers and imagine yourself a recording artist/star. Sometimes I feel like being a rock star. Other times a country star. Most of the time though, I just want to be a folk star.

Old CD cases can be crushed into fine pieces and used as landscaping mulch. It adds sparkle to your otherwise dull landscaping. Kinda like gilding those lillies.