Three thoughts on . . . binder clips

Thought number one:  A single string and a bunch of binder clips team up to make a pretty good substitute for a bulletin board. 

I have an exposed brick wall in my Command Center, and I don't really want to cover it up with a bulletin board, but I also want a place to post things. So for the past few years, I've had just a single strand of rope across the wall, and I've "pinned" papers to that with binder clips. You can still see the string underneath my twine-bulletin board below.

Binder clips are not only good for paper, they're also good for grabbing onto things that normally don't hang (like a tube of toothpaste or a stuffed animal), and turning it into something you can hang from a hook, if you like hooks . . . which I do, as you can tell from this old "hang it all" post.

Thought number two: Thank goodness that binder clips don't snag on other papers (like paper clips do), or let things fall out (like file folders do). 

I really like using binder clips to organize related stacks of papers --- for example the first set of student essays, the second set of student essays, etc.--- and then lay these stacks flat on a shelf.   In the place of a file folder tab, I just label another small scrap of paper that I fold over the exposed edge, like a mini wrapper, and attach it with a binder clip.

Thought number three: binder clips are almost indefinitely reusable. 

I guess being me, I kind of had to say that. Hooray for things you can use in multiple ways, and use over and over again!