Fun Fact: Interesting other uses for an earring!

Use as a bulletin board tack

Lend a little personal style to your bulletin board. Use mateless pierced earrings to tack up pictures, notes, souvenirs, and clippings.

Make a magnet

Give your fridge some glitz. Use wire cutters to cut the stem off an orphan earring and glue it to a magnet. What a great way to emphasize how pleased you are with that perfect report card when you stick it on the refrigerator.

Clip your scarf

Did you lose one of your very favorite earrings? You can still work the survivor into an ensemble by using it to secure a scarf. Just tie the scarf as desired, then clip or pierce it with the earring.

Make an instant button

You're dressed to go out and you discover a button missing. No need to re-invent your whole outfit. Just grab a clip-on earring. Clip the earring on the button side of the clothing to create a new “button,” then button as usual with the buttonhole. If you have time, move the top button on that favorite blouse to replace the lost one and then use the earring at the top of the blouse.

Decorate your Christmas tree

Scatter clip-on earrings around the boughs of your Christmas tree as an eye-catching accent to your larger tree decorations. Or use them as the main adornment on a small tree or wreath.

“Extraordinary Uses For Ordinary Things” from The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.