BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers

Subject: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 08:47 AM

Knowing the creative minds at Mudcat, I know I can get answers here. I doubt they'll be music-related, but you never know!

Keeping bagels or donuts fresh and neatly displayed?

Carrying the camping TP?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:02 AM

Don't they normally come shrink wrapped?

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:05 AM

I'm getting the stacks of 100 in the screw-lock plastic bell jar.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:13 AM

Cover 'em with goatskin and use 'em for bodhrans.

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:17 AM

Put artificial flower arrangements in them and sell them at craft fairs. People will sell...and others will buy...anything at a craft fair.

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:17 AM

Keep all those free CDs full of crap programmes, free internet hours, and the occasional virus, and use them as drinks coasters. Apart from mobiles and bird scarers, it's the only good use I know for these CDs.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:28 AM

So use the containers for coasters and pending craft projects? :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:31 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:33 AM

Beuaty AND fuction! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:37 AM

fuction out the wah-zoooo!

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: John Hardly
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:44 AM

You know how you're always getting those annoying bullet holes in your car windows?

Well, I've found that, rather than having to duct tape whole rolls of clear plastic to make a new window, simply duct taping a jewel case over the offensive bullet hole works just fine.

Works fine around the house too! In fact, with a little copper foil between the cases you can have a lovely, if uncolorful, stained glass window. I find that it will get stained on its own just fine.

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:46 AM

WYSIWYG -

I keep the "current backups" in jewel boxes for easy access; but when I make a fresh backup, I use the same jewel boxes (sometimes they're even labelled) and put the old ones back on the spindle in the bulk box. That won't use up all of the bulk cans, but it's a lot more compact for the one or two generations of "obsolete" backups that might possibly come in handy if one of the new ones happens to drop a file or two.

Now what to do with the rest of the bulk cans - and what to do with all those third and fourth generation backup CDs ...

I guess I'll just watch the suggestions roll in.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: GUEST,~S~
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:47 AM

I could use the big 100-stack containers for wahzoo storage.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: GUEST,~S~
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:50 AM

Backups???????????? People DO that? (Just kidding)

If I cut or melt a slot in the "base" part I can have a handy bank easy to crack back into later! If I line it with used shelf paper I can surprise myself with what adds up in there...

Diabetic needle disposal (if glued shut)....

Eeeeww, used condoms....

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 11:32 AM

Fortune telling instead of a crystal ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: open mike
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 08:00 PM

tiny greenhouses for bonsai plants?

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Troll
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 08:07 PM

Fill 'em with cement and stick a dowel rod or a piece of bamboo in the cement before it sets. Then add a little dayglo tape and... What's that dear? Oh. Coming right now.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 08:42 PM

Well, me and the trusty Wes Ginny Slide Rule on top of this one big time...

You take 'um an' pulverize 'um and then with a little resin and hardener you have the perfect meaterial fir doing castings... You know, like them little dogs, 'er eagles you see at crafy shows... Then you paint 'um up to look like nice and then you rent a 10X10 spot at an Arts & Crafts Fair, sit in the hot sun for two days and come home and count out the $47.50 you netted (after expenses)...

($47.50 for all that work and sittin' in the sun fie two days?)

Ignore that last idea. It was the WGSR's...

Ahhhhh, they are recyclable... Thorw 'um in with the rest of the plastics...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 09:58 PM

I used to have a really funny poster-- a diagram that included a man's watch pocket (I believe) as the "booger storage vault." (I wish I had it still!) Anyway I was thinkin' I could use the CD cylinder like that. Better-- set it out at the next MudGather as a spittoon! Oh the humanity! Oh the DNA! Think what talent could be cloned out of THAT!

Or a pee bucket for children up in the MudDorm...

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 10:15 PM

Well there goes the neighborhood... Poor ol WYSusan, respected preacher's wife and all around decent human being, has just rediscovered that *bong* that's been locked up, along with a pair of bell bottom jeans, in the foot-locker in the basement labeled, "60's stuff".....

B;)

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 12:48 AM

It seems like just about any durable container gets used for craft stuff around here. I have two packrat children, descended from packrat parents. "Don't throw that away--we might be able to use it for something!" (I am the child of children of the Depression--it seems to take a while to shake those habits). But as that grandchild of the Depression, I also see a great deal of waste in all of the containers we use only once today. Do like Bobert says--throw it into the recyle bin. Maybe that CD container will come back spun into yarn for a sweater or bonded into a board for a plastic piece of lumber of a park bench.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:20 AM

Ever thought of asking your local school if they can use them? Pretty handy storage containers for pens, erasers (choosing her words carefully here), sharpeners and craft bits.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: Micca
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:32 PM

There is one very good use for those bulk CD containers ("cake boxes" they are called in the ads in the UK), Our CD player(the one built into the stereo) takes a caddy that holds 6 CDs, when you need an empty slot to play a CD but dont want to spend time searching for the jewel case, keep the "cake box" by the stereo and pop the ejected CD safe and dust free in there until you have time to put it away properly. There are times when even 15 cadys dont seem to be enough!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Uses for Empty Bulk CD Containers
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:36 PM

great yarn holders.