Recycling or

[mpizzazz]

....why I wanted a Bind-it-all. During our ongoing decluttering of the house, I asked Ray to save any paper printed on only one side that he didn't want. Then he had 3 small notebooks that were full. They had sturdy covers and strong wire spiral bindings. I opened the wire spiral carefully and got rid of all the pages. I cut the covers down to fit 5.5 x 8.5" paper and covered the covers with an old map of France we were also discarding. I punched a zillion holes in the pages over the last few weeks with the BIA and put them all back together last night. Since they all look alike I stamped them with numbers so he knows which is which.

So the entire books are recycled and there is big stack of paper left to make about 6 more.
I had made tablets for him before but only used thin cardboard and CS paper for the covers. They were too floppy. These are much better.

[jmp1022]

What a great way to make notebooks. Neat for travel.
I love my bind it all. I made so many books for the grands.

[Keitha]

And all is answered, LOL. I'm sure Ray will find these very handy!

[pamcook]

Nice Marianne! Brilliant idea.

[troublesmom]

Wonderful job on those Marianne. I enjoy using the BIA also. I had made a journal to be used on our trip to "Hawaii" that now we are not taking. Don't know where or if we will go away this year or not.

[paddlegal]

These are terribly cool and your determination and time used to do all that work is applauded! Love the big numbers on them.

[jfugina]

Love these! I have a BIA and I don't use it that often, but I do love having it when the urge strikes to make a book. I think recycling old covers is brilliant. But yeah, making a sizable book with blank pages would be a multi-day effort for me. It would be lovely if they punched more than 4 holes at a time, or could do more than about 4 sheets of paper at a time. Something like that would probably have to be powered though, and would quickly become cost prohibitive.

[mpizzazz]

Love these! I have a BIA and I don't use it that often, but I do love having it when the urge strikes to make a book. I think recycling old covers is brilliant. But yeah, making a sizable book with blank pages would be a multi-day effort for me. It would be lovely if they punched more than 4 holes at a time, or could do more than about 4 sheets of paper at a time. Something like that would probably have to be powered though, and would quickly become cost prohibitive.

I wouldn't normally have done so many holes but I was reusing the covers and the wires. Mine punches 6 holes at a time, so it was 3 passes through the BIA, I did about 6 sheets at a time mostly when I wanted something mindless to do in the evening. It wasn't a huge chore to do but I would like to figure out a way to clamp the BIA to the table.

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. I get excited about making something out of nothing.