Paperclips in the Office

Besides being standard office equipment paperclips do have a variety of other uses. Okay let's say that you get super duper, beyond a shadow of a doubt, bored out of your mind one day...Grab your little bucket of paperclips and allow the power of the paperclip to amuse your day in a variety of most useful ways.

You can make yourself a lovely paperclip necklace, bracelet, tie clip, or set of cuff links. (That aught to have a few people in the office sitting up and taking a little closer notice of you.)

Straighten your paperclip into a wire line, stab it into your eraser, and you now have a handy memo holder which you can store all your receipts on. Straightened paperclips could also be used as a shish-ka-bob, stir stick, toothpick, or as a set of pick up sticks (That should cure your boredom).

Popped a hem, or lost a button, well you know exactly what you can use to fix your appearance back up to office standards. Grab that wonderful little item that we know as a paperclip and let it put your clothing back together again. Is your hair a mess? Use a paperclip as an attractive hair barrette. Put a little cotton on the end of your paperclip and you have a swab to clean out your ears or belly button area.

Paperclips also make a wonderful little fish hook although I am not quite sure what kind of office you would be working in if you really needed one of those?

Paperclips can also be used as a lock pick, guitar pick, or just something to clean under your nails with. Decorate up your desk by building yourself a paperclip ring holder, picture hanger, or fine art piece.

Need an instrument of torture? Not a problem. If it is deemed absolutely essential under current office conditions then keep a straightened out paperclip close at hand.

Purchase gold paperclips to hand out as the all important office "Golden Paperclip Award". Yeah everyone will appreciate that gesture. And if the boss is getting on your nerves, and you feel the need to unwind a little, simply untangled one end of your paperclip to make a fantastic roach clip.

It seems that some controversy surrounds the mystery of who exactly was the first person to invent the paperclip.

Paperclip history is indeed a little confused on who it was that invented the paperclip. In 1899 Johan Vaaler (a Norwegion) had his version of the paperclip patented in Germany (Norway did not have patent laws at that time) which allowed Norway to lay claim to the invention of the paperclip.

In the United States Samual B. Fay patented his twisted wire paperclip in 1867 followed shortly after by Erlman J. Wright's wire gizmo patent in the year 1877.

Now add to this confusion the fact that someone found an advertisement for 'Gem' paperclips for sale in Britain dated 1894. Gem paperclips had not been patented, but the machine that made these little clip wonders is, leading many to believe that Gem may have been the first paperclip. The tiny piece of twisted wire known as the Gem paperclip is still the most widely recognized paperclip in the world.

There really was a fellow who successfully traded a little red paperclip for a house, but don't get too excited, it wasn't all as easy as it sounds. There were a number of transactions involved before the deal reached the acquisition of a house.

A Canadian by the name of Kyle MacDonald decided to attempt to see how far upwards he could trade when beginning with a simple item such as a little red paperclip. He traded the paperclip for a pen, the pen for a doorknob, and worked his way upwards from there. After fourteen successful transactions he reached the amazing deal of acquiring himself a house from that little tiny red piece of wire that he began with, the paperclip sure is an amazing item, isn't it?

A paperclip for a house? <---Read the details. That has definitely got to be the greatest paperclip trade in history. Way to go Kyle...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_clip

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi769.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm