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Unexpected New Uses for Home Office Items

Make your office supplies work double time with these new twists

Unexpected New Uses for Home Office Items
Mark Lund
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Transparent Tape
  • Prepare to pucker up. For a smoother finish, press the sticky side of a piece of tape to your lips to remove dry skin (that is not cracked) before applying lipstick.


  • Identify plants. Use clear tape to cover seed markers in the garden. You’ll be able to read the names all season long, rain or shine.


  • Try a new color. Find out what “Hot Tamale” nail polish will look like on you. Place a small piece of tape on your fingernail, then brush on a test coat.


  • Arrange flowers. Clear tape, when applied across the mouth of a vase in a grid formation, makes an invisible guide for arranging flowers.


  • Seal the frayed end of a shoelace.


  • Get hung up. Before hanging a picture on a plaster wall, put a small piece of tape where the nail will go. This will prevent the plaster from chipping when you hammer in the nail.


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