lunarjade
08-15-2008, 02:49 PM
So I found some new things in the trash yesterday while I was at work. Looked like a box full of write offs from one of the tourist shops in the mall. I picked through it and didn't find much of interest.
There was two display case things though and they were in fine shape. I don't know why they decided to get rid of them. So I grabbed them up. The only other thing I took was this lanyard. I didn't care for it but I wanted the buckle off of it.
It was all good until I needed to take the display cases home. I take the bus and didn't have an extra bag so I grabbed one of the stores bags and put them in. But it wasn't big enough to really hold both of them and let me carry both items. The bus would be busy enough and I didn't want to stick each one in its own little bag.
Then I remembered the lanyard I had found. Looking it through the handles and clipping it back on itself helped to make a useable handle that would let me carry the one bag home.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd252/lunarjade/Misc%20pics/IMG_1152.jpg
I've never seen much use in a lanyard. You can end up with so many of them from different events. So when a different purpose came up for one I was actually surprised by it. But it worked great!
So I wonder does anyone have any ideas for other uses for lanyards? Or stories in which they needed something at that moment and used what they just had lying around for an innovative workable idea?
There was two display case things though and they were in fine shape. I don't know why they decided to get rid of them. So I grabbed them up. The only other thing I took was this lanyard. I didn't care for it but I wanted the buckle off of it.
It was all good until I needed to take the display cases home. I take the bus and didn't have an extra bag so I grabbed one of the stores bags and put them in. But it wasn't big enough to really hold both of them and let me carry both items. The bus would be busy enough and I didn't want to stick each one in its own little bag.
Then I remembered the lanyard I had found. Looking it through the handles and clipping it back on itself helped to make a useable handle that would let me carry the one bag home.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd252/lunarjade/Misc%20pics/IMG_1152.jpg
I've never seen much use in a lanyard. You can end up with so many of them from different events. So when a different purpose came up for one I was actually surprised by it. But it worked great!
So I wonder does anyone have any ideas for other uses for lanyards? Or stories in which they needed something at that moment and used what they just had lying around for an innovative workable idea?