How can I reuse or recycle old subway or train tickets?
Jen of the tape dispenser suggestion had another query:
Another suggestion is all those old metro cards that I’ve been keeping… I’m not sure what I want to do with them yet. Any suggestions?
I’m such a sucker for keeping old train tickets too – credit-sized bits of card – because like so many things, they seem like they’re really useful. I’ve used them folded up under wobbly chairs/tables in restaurants on occasion but this really isn’t enough to justify keeping as many as I do.
So suggestions?
(Photo by eurok)
Make art for you wall in the form of a collage or montage.
Use them as homemade business/contact cards to hand out to people.
Put them in your bike wheels so they make a cool sound when your spokes hit them.
Sell them to people trying to get a metro ticket, then run away before they realize it’s an old ticket (just kidding).
If you surf on the catalogue of the public libraries of Paris, you can find a wonderful book with special origami patterns for subway tickets :-)
I’ve made quite a lot of jumpig frogs with metro tickets, my little sisters simply loved them!
Online catalogue of the Parisian libraries:
http://dac-opac-pret.paris.fr/cyberpac/
Use them as reference bookmarks for things you read that you might want to refer back to later (you can tear/cut them into smaller pieces).
This may sound silly. But you can use them as TP and save twice as much paper.
this is obvious if you’re in college: use them as filters to smoke weed! ;P
Cute bookmarks.
I know its a little disgusting, but I sometimes keep a few in my wallet to use as toothpicks – I have a gap between two teeth that a normal toothpick can’t fit into, and I’m always getting bits of apple stuck there, plus I get the train every day!
As I said, its a bit disgusting because of the possible dirt and grime, but as my Grandad always said “You have to eat a ton of it before you die!”
Put them in the spokes of your bicycle!
Do something like this:
http://subwayticket.blogspot.com/
fold them in a certain way to make a cool tower
(place one portrait and the other over it landscape, fold the potrait ones ends over the landscape and turn 90 degrees. repeat until tower is huge!!!
☆☆☆ U could always shred them and make confetti…hehehe ☆☆☆
I did that once! It worked.
You can use them to roll joints. Actually they are perfect for the job
A fresh reply from 2012, to a post from 2008. I collect these train tickets too. thought it was stupid so threw a whole lot when moving house. collected more again and now I have got a tiny idea for a project. but now the machine keeps taking my ticket. haha. so I was looking for anyone who could donate their tickets for the project. lol.
A fresh reply from 2012, to a post from 2008.
And that’s encouraged me to leave a new reply too! Clare from Three Beautiful Things recently wrote about how she uses old train tickets as both a sort of diary and bookmarks:
I save my train tickets for bookmarks, and I write notes on them about the journey. Sometimes it’s just where I was going, or the purpose of the journey; other times it’s a few words to jog my memory about the day (‘a row of birds’; ‘cable theft in Maidstone’; ‘the proud man’). … When I need a bookmark, I take out the oldest ticket (it goes back about nine months at the moment). When I finish the book, I leave the ticket in. Where the book goes, the ticket goes.
A truly lovely idea! Do read the whole story about it for more lovely details :)
Slice them up and make them into a paper chain =]
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151018990950394&set=a.10150317921720394.579320.526725393&type=3&theater
I’m doing my A-levels at the moment and thought my copius pile of train tickets could make very handy revision cards which are expensive at the best of times!