using junk mail

Do you have a lot of junk mail? I think we all do. I was reading an article in a free magazine that Satoshi picked up. The article talked about how to turn junk mail into a trash can. (This spurred me to practice making them and eventually turned the magazine into LOTS of little trash cans.)

These are perfect for when you are watching tv or working at the computer and eating something and need to put say the shells into something but don't want to get up to throw them out....or maybe when you go on a picnic or road trip and you want to put some dry trash into something to throw away later. Hopefully, these pictures and my writing will be clear enough for you to understand. (I wish I had video...)

Take a rectangular piece of paper, most junk mail is...and fold it in half and then in half again.

It should look like this. Now, flip it over so that the folded edge is on top.

Take one of the folded edges and bring the edge to the center to make a triangle...it should look like this. Do this for the other folded edge too.

Your paper should look like this. (there should be a gap between).

Now, take the edge on the left and bring it over to the right, like you are flipping a page in a book. Do this for the other side too. (you shouldn't be able to see the gap)

Now, bring the left edge towards the center and the right edge also towards the center. Do this for the opposite side also. It should look like a pentagon.

Fold the straight edge of the pentagon up. Do this for the opposite side.

Now, stick your hand into the "pocket" and open up the box.

Press down on the center of the box to make it flat.

When you open it up, it should look like this. The bigger the rectangle the bigger the box, the smaller the smaller the box.

If you don't open it up, you can stick it into your purse/bag to keep with you whereever you go, you could probably even use these for "that time of the month"....and don't have to waste t.p. (toilet paper) to wrap those "things" to throw out.

So, junk mail which almost always has a negative image doesn't have to be, you could have your kids (the "big" ones too) make them and travel around with them. I'm going to start using them in the kitchen since I don't have a disposal.

If there are parts of this that don't make sense, I'm sorry, maybe if you take a look at the first photo, it will be self explanatory. If not, email me, I'll try to answer your questions.