A Million Great Uses For Binder Clips

Okay, so maybe they isn't a full million uses for binder clips here, but a million sounded a lot better than 50-ish. I love binder clips, they are an organizational workhorse, a true multitasker!  I keep a stash of colourful ones for organizing every room of the house.  Here are (nearly) a million uses for binder clips around the home.
  
In the kitchen...

• Use as a chip clip to keep food packages closed.
• Or take it one step further and use them to actually hang the snacks on your pantry door!  
• Place a wet sponge in a large binder clip so that it will dry well.

 

• Use them to hang your rubber gloves under the sink! 
• Use them to keep garbage bags from slipping down into your trash can.

• Use them to close half-used bags of frozen veggies

• Use one to keep things from rolling around in your fridge (or anywhere you might have wire shelving....) 
• Use a binder clip clipped to the side of a pot to hold a candy thermometer. (Oh how I wish I'd seen this one YEARS ago!)
• Use one as a recipe card holder.

In the dining room...

•  Use to keep sets of cloth serviettes together..
• Use them as wine charms at your next soiree. 
• Use as place card holders for a fun tablescape

• Use them to attach labels to the foods on a buffet.

In the Bathroom...

•  Place a binder clip over the blade end of your disposable razor when traveling for safe packing.
•  Use it to squeeze the last of the toothpaste from the tube. 
• They can even help you clean the shower head!

In the closet...

• Use to hang neckties from an ordinary hanger
• Use to hang boots.
• Use to label cubbies in hanging closet organizers.

In the office...

•  Keep hanging files from sliding too much. 
• Use them to hang a calendar from command hooks.

• Clip one to a desk or nightstand to keep USB cables handy. 
•  Use it to add a pen holder to practically anything.

• Turn the cover of any binder into a clipboard

• Attach labels to baskets or bins
• Stick adhesive labels to the bottoms and use them to label shelves 
• Use them to route cables out of sight.   
• Use them to sort and organize paperwork, of course!

In your crafty space:

• Keep ribbon and notions rolled up and stored tidily.  

•  Use to hold fold-over binding in place while you sew.
• And in place of pins when sewing many layers of fabric together.
• Make a DIY yarn bowl.
• Use them to hang paints from a pegboard hook.
• Use binder clips to store gift bags and tissue papers. 
•  Put a clip on the ends of wrapping paper tubes to keep them from coming unrolled.

•  Use them to hold items together while glue dries.
• Use them in the making of some fabulous DIY recycled notebooks

In Your Purse....

• Clip coupons you plan to use to your grocery list.
•  Use a binder clip to keep money in your wallet separate from other funds when necessary.  I do this when my kids have birthday money that's been given to them and I don't want to accidentally spend it or when I have to remember to give money to somebody.
• Clip a pen to an inside pocket so you can always find it

More Ideas...

• Use them to hang pictures or postcards on a string.
• Combine them with thrifted frames to make a simple gallery wall for your children's art. 
• Hang a tag from one for an easy label for photo albums. 
• Use them to make baby bib clips. 
• Store games and children's activities in ziplock bags and hang them from a towel bar using binder clips.
•  Use them to make a smart phone amplifying speaker out of a Pringles can.  Seriously!

What did I miss?  Do you have a favourite way to use binder clips around the house?

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