So, two years ago you ordered a box of 500 business cards, but as a virtual assistant, most of your work is done at home. You don’t have a lot of regular opportunities to hand them out, and you end up needing to update them before you’ve used them all. Of course, you can just recycle them, but first, consider these 15 creative ways to use those old business cards:
- Use them as bookmarks
- Leave short notes for family members
- Create new ones
- Use them for crafts
- Build a card castle
- Fold them in half and use as a money clip
- Use them to level a wobbly desk
- Shred them to make confetti
- Wallpaper your office (maybe a stretch, but still…)
- Make cubes (this is COOL!)
- Use them as name labels for books
- Tape them together to make a drawer liner
- Use them to clean tiny cervices (like the space next to the oven, in between the keys of your keyboard, around the bathroom sink, in between tiles…you get the idea)
- Use them to get organized
- Give some to the kids (trust me, this provides at least 20 minutes of entertainment and gets rid of about 30 cards at a time…more if you have a kid that eats paper.)
What do you do with your old business cards?
Written by Alyssa Gregory
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Alyssa, perfect solution for the gritty areas in my car that can’t be vacuumed out per tip #13.
Truth be told, the cards I have now are about 5 years old but I love them and can’t bear to part with them even though I know they need updating. I might use tip #3 to get more mileage out of them even though, as you remarked, we VAs don’t have that many occasions for handing them out.
I tweeted your article.
Hi, good post. I have been woondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be coming back to your site.