- Mixing plates for epoxy
- Target practice
- Prop up a crooked lamp or piece of furniture
- Use packing tape to strip off the reflective layer and admire the transparent disc
- Corollary to above: cut out rectangular pieces as small windows for project enclosures
- Corollary: replacement "lens" for flashlight
- Crappy disposable frisbees
- Use as reflectors to take revenge on neighbors for light pollution
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I used to cut them up to use them as kaleidescope mirrors. (The reflected colours make them almost better than normal mirrors)
Edit: I just remembered another one! tie multiple along a string and hang it up as a bird scarer. (Bonus if you make some other place for the birds to be happy (as repayment))
Coasters.
Hi, could you elaborate?
- Put a CD/DVD on a surface
- Put a drink on CD/dvd
- ????
- Profit
My bad, had a brain fart when I first saw “coasters” 😂. Searched it up, apparently a pretty common repurpose.
- Roll CD on edge
- Make terrible pun about it being a roller coaster