Need Creative Ideas for leftover....

David Bargetzi · Post by **David Bargetzi** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:09 pm

Campaign Flyers. They are falling out of my mail sorter, stuck in every door. I have piles of them in my car. If there was any chance I wouldn't know who was running for what it was obliterated by a colorful flier. I have millions.

It seems that someone should come up with a wonderful craft idea for collages or something to use all that glossy blue and red and black. Perhaps some sort of board game. Something besides mere recycling. After all, there will be more....I expect.

Jeff Endress · Post by **Jeff Endress** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:23 pm

David

I would be an advocate of making them into origami cranes, and hanging them to dangle in the breeze blowing through your front porch.....

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-crane.html

If you make a thousand cranes, your wish will be granted. But, if using political flyers, I'd be very careful what you wish for.

Jeff

Tim Carroll · Post by **Tim Carroll** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:44 pm

You can always keep the winner's material to hold to any promises or statements they made while they are in office.

After I ran in '05 my wife filled a scrapbook with a one piece of each literature that I had as well as some of the competitors.

See if the Historical Society has any desire for them.

Growing up in the Niagara Falls, NY area, the main library maintained a collection of political materials and literature dating all the way back to the beginning of the 1900s. They would rotate the collection at different periods of time.
Perhaps Ken Warren's people would like to add that as a possible addition to Library.

Steve Hoffert · Post by **Steve Hoffert** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:46 pm

You could leave a stack on the toilet tank....First for reading then for.....

Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:47 pm

it's getting chilly, you could use them to start your fires.

c. dawson · Post by **c. dawson** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:26 pm

it'd sure be helpful if candidates would print their materials on recycled paper, or paper that was good for composting ... then they truly would be a benefit to the public

David Bargetzi · Post by **David Bargetzi** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:35 pm

c. dawson wrote:it'd sure be helpful if candidates would print their materials on recycled paper, or paper that was good for composting ... then they truly would be a benefit to the public

Great point.

Gary Rice · Post by **Gary Rice** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:44 pm

That, or maybe buy a billy goat?

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:18 am

TIM CARROLL wrote:You can always keep the winner's material to hold to any promises or statements they made while they are in office.

Tim

This is what I have done in the past. Then as each promise is fullfilled I take sissors and cut out that promise, and burn it in an ashtray, to let the promise free.

Well, what I mean is, that was what I would do if...

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Todd Shapiro · Post by **Todd Shapiro** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:32 am

Steve Hoffert wrote:You could leave a stack on the toilet tank....First for reading then for.....

Steve took my idea I was going to suggest using them the way our grandparents and great grandparents once used the Sears catalog.

Phil Florian · Post by **Phil Florian** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:51 am

Todd Shapiro wrote:
Steve Hoffert wrote:You could leave a stack on the toilet tank....First for reading then for.....

Steve took my idea I was going to suggest using them the way our grandparents and great grandparents once used the Sears catalog.

Political material is rough and gritty, though. While deserving of that fate, I feel it might do more harm than good.

Steve Hoffert · Post by **Steve Hoffert** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:25 pm

I actually wrote on each piece my own political commentary and "Return to Sender" and gave them back to the mailman. He told me that the bulk rate mail does not get returned merely thrown into a big basket then discarded.

Another fun thing to do with junk mail that has a return envelope is to remove your name and stuff everything back into their envelope or tape it to a brick and send it back. It costs them $$ plus it's loads of laughs.