Tuesday, January 25, 2005 AD Reaping the Benefits of My Own Clevericity Years ago I discovered that if you want use cellophane tape to attach paper to something, but you want not to ruin the thing you are taping, first put down a strip of tape on the paper object, and then attach a strip or little roll of tape from that to the other surface. Hmmm...I'm not describing that very well. Here's a for instance: You know how you're supposed to reuse inter-office envelopes over and over again, but they often get quickly ripped up by repeated taping? (The little ones, not the big ones with the twisty string mechanism.) Well, put some tape flat on the surface under the flap, and then the tape you put on the flap will be readily removable from it. Got it? Well, it also works for taping stuff to walls (and similar surfaces). Put a strip of tape on the paper object, then stick a little roll of tape to that before attaching it to the wall. Then when you pull it off the wall, you can pull the little roll of tape off the paper without ruining the paper because it's had the lamination-in-miniature treatment of being protected by the strip of tape. Anyway, I took down a bunch of cards and notes from the shelf over my sink. I'd attached them years ago via the method above, so the tape came off easily and the backs of the cards are still legible and untorn. I am, as a result, delighting in my cleverness at having done it this way...and giving credit for it to the One who made me thus, but Who doesn't really need to be clever because He never needs to figure things out. Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 1/25/2005 12:45:00 AM
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