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bellbird

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(disclaimer: i don't know if paperclips were really marketed & sold like this or it's a photoshopped ad but it seems within the realm of possibility to me, having grown up watching him fix stuff and having a mother that still has a MacGuyver approach to DIY and fixing anything. And after breaking 2 car keys in as many days earlier this year, i keep one in one of the car consoles, y'know, just in case).

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So as you do in a pandemic, when your 11 year old runs out of paper books and libraries are physically shut (and when they do open, you're just not ready to go back in to them yet), you give him one of your prized possessions, a Kobo e-reader you've had for years with not a problem so he can read e-books from libraries without sitting at his laptop (and blue light etc issues).
I'm sure you know what happens next. It won't start or do anything when pushing the various combinations of buttons the collective genius of the Internet suggests, and you resort to the straightened paperclip and resetting the thing via the tiny hole you never noticed before- if only all problems could be fixed in the same way.

Have you had to use this trusty multi-tool to save the day?
I think I've seen it gain a new level of usefulness holding mask ear loops now, who'd have thought?! Probably people like my mum.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I used that trusty multi-tool all the time to get jammed staples out of the stapler on my desk at work.
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Genius! I can't believe I've never thought to use old trusty with jammed staplers (which happens like every time I use it!) Adding it my list of easily fixed problems now, thanks!!
 
I use paper clips and lose them just as fast. I love the big ones - rubber coated - I buy them by the bulk at The Dollar Store. Also just as handy for me - a toothpick. LOL I always have some of them in my desk drawer, too.
 
Think I had to use that or a small pin to get into my SIM card slot on my iPhone last year cause I didn’t have the special tool anymore from Apple.
 
They work good to fit in the zipper when the tab breaks.. also works to hang ornaments on the tree if you run out of the hangers!!
 
cfile said:
They work good to fit in the zipper when the tab breaks.. also works to hang ornaments on the tree if you run out of the hangers!!
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Yep, done both of these as well.

I also have one in use to hold a wind chime on an outdoor plant hanger (the one that goes in the ground). The wind chime hook is too small to fit on the hanger part so large plastic paper clip bent to fit works. 4th year I've used it.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
Yep, done both of these as well.

I also have one in use to hold a wind chime on an outdoor plant hanger (the one that goes in the ground). The wind chime hook is too small to fit on the hanger part so large plastic paper clip bent to fit works. 4th year I've used it.
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Who knew there was more uses for paper clips than clipping papers together!! :giggle:giggle
 
My Dad was always knick named MacGyver when we were growing up. He'd always find ways to fix broken items around our house with duct tape and coat hangers (just a bigger sized paperclip really :giggle )
 
I had an unbent paperclip in my mini-van so I could change the time on my clock/radio ... it had these itty bitty recessed hour/minute buttons.
 
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