Any suggestions for creative uses for old unwanted CDs?

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I've got stacks of old CDs which were freebies on magazines/AOL installation discs etc, and it seems a shame to just chuck them away. What creative uses could I put them to?

― C J (C J), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang them on fruit trees to scare away the birds.

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I've debated taking up skeet shooting.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There's always the microwave.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Won't that just blow up my microwave though, Ned?

― C J (C J), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but you will get some audiovisual entertainment out of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah! You are just a home-wrecker with a smiley nice guy disguise :)

― C J (C J), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael White completely OTM here in a sort of "hm, wonder if he also reads Hints from Heloise" sort of way.

Or you could also use them as impromptu beverage coasters. You could hot glue some felt (that's been cut to size) to one side of the CD and that could be the side that rests on the table.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I could paint the non-felted side, too!

I wonder if they become pliable when heated in the oven? I could mould them into little plant pots or something.

(I've already used them to scare off birds in the veg garden, Michael, and they work very well indeed)

― C J (C J), Saturday, 24 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/images/sunnov4.gif

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Put them in a pie.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Put your dick through the hole and send a picture to Vale and Juno. (Sorry, that's kind of an early 90's joke.)

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Get a permenate marker and write or draw some kind of weird desing that no one can make out on the back and say it's some musician's signature, and sell it on eBay

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I've already used them to scare off birds in the veg garden, Michael, and they work very well indeed

You could play them and scare off all living creatures.

― Skottie, Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

stack them all on top of each other, offset slighly each time, and find out how far the stack can reach horizontally. theoretically it's limitless!

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

send a picture to Vale and Juno

Hahaha. So were you more of a Search and Destroy or a Re:Search fan?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've debated taking up skeet shooting.

-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), April 24th, 2004. (Anthony Miccio) (later)

does anyone else find this completely hilarious?

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Skeet Ulrich?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

well, y'know, that lil' jon song or whatever where they keep saying skeet... well it means jizzum, i am juvenile.

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

PULL!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Better yet, with Sharpie and Ebay:

Blackout any details on the CD label that would make it identifiable. Then randomly make black Sharpie patterns on the underside. Now put it on Ebay under an IDM alias of your choice and proceed to start a fledgling record label.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/06/dzn_CD-Sea-by-Bruce-Munro-10.jpg
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/06/dzn_CD-Sea-by-Bruce-Munro-2.jpg
http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/06/dzn_CD-Sea-by-Bruce-Munro-1.jpg

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/29/cdsea-by-bruce-munro/#more-84977

― jed_, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

wow

― Flowers By Pete (admrl), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

~40TB

― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_WasteLandscape-by-Elise-Morin-and-Clemence-Eliard-1.jpg

http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/08/dezeen_WasteLandscape-by-Elise-Morin-and-Clemence-Eliard-6.jpg

― jed_, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

That is beautiful, not everyone can make art out of trash. Something to think about, all of that electronic waste. Office Depot said it took old computers but it wouldn't take mine. :(

― Has a Dingy Ringer on Its Hootie Ha ha (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)

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