DISQUS

Brain Traffic Blog: Call for creative recycling

  • NMB · 6 months ago
    Julie... option 3 is not lame at all... just use the back of the card... like Hugh MacLeod - http://www.gapingvoid.com.
  • christine · 6 months ago
    Maybe donate them for someone else to recycle: preschools are always looking for art materials. Business cards are a nice size for little hands.
  • Chris · 6 months ago
    Shred and make a nice comfy bed for a child's pet hamster.
  • Irving Reid · 6 months ago
    Bookmarks! Now you can have 200 books on the go at one time!

    But seriously (well, not really *seriously*), business card cubes: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/cardcube.html
  • Michael Kozakewich · 6 months ago
    I like the collage.
    What if you cut through it a third of the way, on both the top and the bottom, between the brain and the "BRAIN TRAFFIC" text, and then folded the texty half into a cylinder? You could make a whole society of little brainy persons, and then build little card houses for them...
  • JulieVollenweider · 6 months ago
    These ideas are brills. Can't wait to wrangle the BT troops and create an army of tiny business card people. Thank you -- and keep 'em coming!
  • rycera · 6 months ago
    Host an alleycat (bike race), and hand them out as spoke cards for the participants.

    Or, simply clothespin one to your bike's forks so it hits the spokes and makes that cool motorcycle sound.
  • Eric · 6 months ago
    Donate them to a needy, similarly named & branded company?
  • jasonsack · 6 months ago
    I use mine for bookmarks. Never seem to have enough bookmarks.
  • Irving Reid · 6 months ago
    Eric: the only other business plans I can think of that could use "Brain Traffic" cards probably shouldn't be given any encouragement...
  • Craig · 6 months ago
    I just recently starting using the back sides of old business cards to rough out slide presentations. Really easy to shuffle/add/remove...and if you can't get the message across in the space allotted then it probably won't work as a slide either.
  • Nick · 6 months ago
    We have the same problem at Blue Flavor.... the back side of them has the Blue Flavor leaf so I am constructing wallpaper with them.
  • Nicole · 5 months ago
    Grab 52, draw some hearts and diamonds. Viola...new deck-o-cards!
  • Jean Gazis · 1 month ago
    Build a house of cards. Then knock it down! Then do it again....