Sure, paper clips end up floating around junk drawers and clutter desk tops, but they’re good for more than just organizing papers. These bendy wires can be quite handy in pinch — and they can make a ...

I love being able to repurpose things I have lying around the house, and my collection of paper clips just got a bunch of new assignments after I learned about all these great ways to use them. When ...

If the pull-tab has broken off of the zipper on one of your bags or pieces of clothing, a paper clip can serve as a great temporary fix. Simply hook the end of a paper clip through the zipper slider ...

When studying, you often need to move from page to page repeatedly. You can use little pieces of paper to create quick bookmarks, but those can fall off while you work. Paper clips, on the other hand, ...

Real Simple magazine found that a standard paper clip holder works well to hold bobby pins. You could also hold any type of light metal item such as straight pins, safety pins, screws, penny nails, ...

As I struggled for inspiration for the next Rooney Bin, I looked at the clutter around my computer: papers, a campaign button, pens, a chunk of lava from vacation, keys and paper clips. Paper clips? I ...

In late 2009, the London-based blogger James Ward and the artist Ed Ross began a movement to celebrate "stationery"—the term for office supplies, basically, in the U.K.—that they called the Stationery ...

Let's suppose you need to measure the mass of some water, and you want to construct a scale to do it. But you are in a normal house filled with normal stuff. There’s no fancy scientific equipment. Can ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A Pittsburgh dentist admits he used ordinary office supplies to do root canals on his patients. The paper clips were bought at an office supply store, then permanently inserted into ...