When the children bring notices home and I don't need them, I rip them in half and use them as scrap paper. I leave them near the phones. The ones I use are the ones that have empty back sides
I have been doing this for years of school children.
By Lorraine from Venice, FLA
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You can buy a product (look on the internet) called padding compound to make your own peel off scratch pads. You just make a stack of your scrap paper, brush the padding compound onto the ends of the paper stack and let dry. When completely dry, you can just tear off a sheet when you need it. So much nicer than keeping a stack of loose paper.
I've been doing this for years. I have a small 3 drawer unit I have near my printer. The drawers are 8 1/2 x 11 size. Some of the papers that come in my kids backpacks get left whole and put in one of these drawers and then I can use the blank side to print off coupons, notes or whatever. Some of the sheets I cut into 1/4th's and those go in a drawer of note paper. It's just as handy for me to grab a piece of note paper out of that drawer.
All my kids are grown and gone now, but this is something I used to do. I never bothered with the "padding compound," but would sometimes use my office paper cutter to make the job of quartering pages go faster.
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