Ten Practical Uses for Your Credit Cards

But wait: Don’t throw them away. Just stop using them as they were designed to be used — that is, to pay for stuff. Save the actual cards. Because they’re useful in all sorts of ways you might never have considered.

Here are ten ways we’ve repurposed our unwanted credit cards. But the possibilities are infinite. How would you use yours? Post ideas and links in the comments section below, or email pictures of your handiwork here.


Ten Practical Uses for Your Credit Cards

Monopoly money

Picture frame


Snow goggles
(Also formerly known as “Eskimo sunglasses.”)


Dolls’ picnic table


Burglary tool
The original alternate use for credit cards.


Golf putter
Make sure to have the back of the card facing outwards; otherwise, the protruding card numbers will make it hard to aim! (This really works — click here to see a video of the credit-card putter in action.)


Coinage
If the economy collapses, we’ll have to use something for money.


Light-switch cover


Credicopter
A hand-held mini-helicopter augmented with credit cards for extra lift. Click here to see the credicopter actually flying!


Cocaine cutter
The other original alternate use for credit cards.
(Note to law enforcement: Baking powder. Not actual cocaine.)