A Thousand and One Uses For A Worthless Diet Book

[Gemini the Younger]

As a newbie, I've been scouring the boards for information on the LDL Way of Eating. (WOE)  So far I've read posts from at least a thousand members (Okay, I exaggerate a little. The actual number is 999. ) who are tossing their old diet books--and don't we all have good sized collections?--and keeping only their copies of Let's Do Lunch.   I started thinking that it might be fun (and a real ice breaker for all of us new recruits, as if this friendly site needs one!!!) if we put our minds to brainstorming and came up with A Thousand and One Uses for a Worthless Diet Book.  I'm currently using one of mine to press wild flowers and another's hidden under a tablecloth, propping up a wobbly table leg...you get the picture.

Just an idea...

[mom]

take them to the lake, cabin or other primitive place you go and use them for toilet paper. or fire starter just don't give them to unsuspecting friends

[isthis4me]

teehee, I donated mine to the local book store  I am making a book of recipes here * like NEETS meatloaf    until my book comes, then what isnt in there will be in the : LDL supplemental cook book: 

[LittlePrincess]

Use them to make art journals!  I will volunteer to take them off of your hands if you want. 

(In Faith)  LP

[MissMellie]

Great idea Little Princess!!  You must be a stamper, scrapbooker or general crafter.  Now I know what I'm going to do with all of my old diet books.  Thanks for the inspiration.

[Gemini the Younger]

As a newbie, I've been scouring the boards for information on the LDL Way of Eating. (WOE)  So far I've read posts from at least a thousand members (Okay, I exaggerate a little. The actual number is 999. ) who are tossing their old diet books--and don't we all have good sized collections?--and keeping only their copies of Let's Do Lunch.   I started thinking that it might be fun (and a real ice breaker for all of us new recruits, as if this friendly site needs one!!!) if we put our minds to brainstorming and came up with A Thousand and One Uses for a Worthless Diet Book.  I'm currently using one of mine to press wild flowers and another's hidden under a tablecloth, propping up a wobbly table leg...you get the picture.

Just an idea...

#4- Donate them to my church's Sunday School.   We wouldn't let them READ those books, of course, but the pile would reach as high as the ceiling, so we'd let the children try to stack them as high as they can when we do our lesson on the "Tower of Babel!"  Then we'd run for cover when our tower started to collapse.  The rubble will probably fill the whole church hall.

 
Great topic!

I love #4, Mary, but fat with their pages of worthless information, those books would better serve as building blocks for a Tower of Babble, not Babel!  Add a horn or two and the kids could stage a skit on the Walls of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho...

[Gwennaford]

I love #4, Mary, but fat with their pages of worthless information, those books would better serve as building blocks for a Tower of Babble, not Babel!  Add a horn or two and the kids could stage a skit on the Walls of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho...

Gem, I think our word "babble", (meaningless chatter) came from the Bible story about the Tower of Babel where they alll spoke a different language so nobody knew what was going on.  Exactly like in the world of diet books!  So my vote is that Mary's name stands.  It is #7 on OCDG's (OCD Gwennaford's) unofficial list of uses.  Your idea to build a Wall of Jericho is #10.

1. Pressing flowers (Gemini the Younger)
2. Propping Table leg (Gemini the Younger)
3. Toilet paper (mom)
4. Fire starter (mom)
5. Donate - does this qualify as a use (isthis4me)
6. Make a bonfire (Mary)
7. Build a Tower of Babel replica in Sunday School(Mary)
8. Shred for green packaging (Mary)
9. Make art journals (LittlePrincess)
10. Build a Wall of Jericho replica in Sunday School (Gemini the Younger)
11. Make Origami (Gwennaford) http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm
12. Make paper beads (Gwennaford) http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/18889/2241

[AnnieR]

I'm using a couple of really thick ones in my kitchen.... not to do what they say

I can't reach a spot in my cabinets where I keep those super big, only use once a week pans... Standing on the phone book just wasn't cutting it.  Plus, the phone book has value-- wouldn't want to spill something on it using it on a kitchen floor.
But a couple of those ol' worthless diet books can be used a tossed aside whenever....

[Gwennaford]

1. Pressing flowers (Gemini the Younger)
2. Propping Table leg (Gemini the Younger)
3. Toilet paper (mom)
4. Fire starter (mom)
5. Donate - does this qualify as a use (isthis4me)
6. Make a bonfire (Mary)
7. Build a Tower of Babel replica in Sunday School(Mary)
8. Shred for green packaging (Mary)
9. Make art journals (LittlePrincess)
10. Build a Wall of Jericho replica in Sunday School (Gemini the Younger)
11. Make Origami (Gwennaford) http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm
12. Make paper beads (Gwennaford) http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/18889/2241

13.    Disposable step stool (AnnieR)

[MissBizzyLizzy]

to get the gum off the bottom of your shoe...instead of using the precious paper towels 

[Gwennaford]

to get the gum off the bottom of your shoe...instead of using the precious paper towels  :teeth:

That's #14.  Gotta keep 'em numbered so OCD Gwennaford doesn't have a fit!   

[MissBizzyLizzy]

how can you possibly handle calling it OCD...when in alphabetical order it is clearly CDO    that's what we call it at my house...lol 

[Gemini the Younger]

how can you possibly handle calling it OCD...when in alphabetical order it is clearly CDO    that's what we call it at my house...lol 

  There goes my drink spewing out my nose again!  The kid's got you there, Gwen.  But I know you'll be posting a comeback--probably COD!

[MissBizzyLizzy]

[Jazmyn]

LOLOL Lizzy and Gwen I am totally cracking up here! She got ya on that one Gwen /wink

Mary OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 

LOL Thanks Gwen and Lizzy for the much needed laugh!

~Jazmyn 

[babyaustin]

How about my daycare kids use them for coloring books.

Speaking of OCD, my husband is and is on meds for it, so when they opposites attract, they are not kidding because I am the most unorganized person I know and it drives him nuts that I have piles of papers everywhere. It drives me nuts when he puts my piles together because even though they look terrible, there is a reason for each pile. Now don't picture my house to be a pig sty LOL because I do keep it clean, but I do have proabably three piles of my paperwork, bills etc.. that could be filed away but who has time in a day.
Deb

[Gemini the Younger]

Priceless, Mary!  I remember reading that to cure a headache, the ancient Egyptians drilled holes in the skull to let the evil spirits out.  Will our attempts to lose weight seem as bizzare to the inheritors of our diet books when they open that capsule?    Oh, and about your Jericho production...I think I could do a good job of directing, a la Cecil B. DeMille, especially since my thunder thighs make any pants I wear look like jodhupurs.  Lights!  Camera!  Action!