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JayDax
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JayDax asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

Has anyone got any good alternative uses for old CD/DVDs? ?

I have hundreds of them lying around. from old magazine disks to long since updated software. Surely there must be alternative uses for them ( I already have enough wind chimes/mobiles)

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  • 1 decade ago

    If you are creative or artistic then paint a picture or glue one to the disc. One it is dry the buy a small battery operated clock from a craft store and attach it thru the hole in the disc. Makes a good cheap gift for the comp geek. Possibilities are endless.

  • 1 decade ago

    Use them for bike reflectors. OR hang the shiny sides up on your wall for light reflectors. Make coasters out of them. hang them in a cherry tree to keep the birds away. Or on a garden fence to keep critters away.

  • 1 decade ago

    OMG i want a ton of useless cd's like that!!! i'd just line them up, connect them, and hang it on a wall, OR if you want, you can do what i think is REALLY cool and break up the discs and make mosaics

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  • 1 decade ago

    I once did an entire wall of my bedroom with old CDs...just stuck em up with two sided tape to make a cool geometric pattern. They also make good skeet if you're into shooting. Just please clean up the mess afterward.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Kinetic mobile suncatchers.

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought this was pretty neat..this person made theirs into CD clocks..you could always do this and sell em :D

    http://www.mcuniverse.com/print.990.98.html

  • molly_
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    There are CD/DVD recycling programs.

    http://www.thecheapbook.com/blog/?p=8

  • G
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Coasters, frisbees, rear-view mirror hangers, earrings, mirrors, skeet shooting targets.

  • 1 decade ago

    Microwave them (WARNING: could break microwave)

    or

    Throw them at the wall until they break It's fun just clean up afterwords

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