Travel tips - binder clips
Since my blog is often a place for me to make personal notes that I won't lose or forget about a hodgepodge of things, I might as well put in all the little neat travel tips I find.
Recently my fella (boyfriend? sort of?) was staying in a hotel room where he said he couldn't sleep. I sat on the bed myself - yummy and soft - perfect for sleeping, and didn't understand why he was having trouble - there were millions of pillows too.
He said that the sun comes up at 5:30 right through his window and wakes him up, but all he could do was build a barrier of pillows to hide his head behind. I said I'd try to figure something out - because I'm the family joke of over-preparedness. And I did. I told him that sometimes it's good to have a teacher around, because I had a binder clip in my stuff (yeah, I brought along a pile of papers to grade while he wasn't around - good thing too, because Warcraft was down most of the day after the patch and its resultant crashes). It was perfect to pull those heavy curtains together (though they aren't hung that way - they're just decorations on the side) just over my own height, and hold them together so that at least the sleeping area was completely sunrise-blocked. :) I think he was glad I was prepared.
So, the first tip is to bring a few binder clips - medium sized or better. (You could also use those butterfly-style large paper clips, but believe me, those things wouldn't hold that hundred pound velvet curtain together....) You could bring clothespins, but... most of the time around here, all you can find are plastic ones which crumble if you look cross-eyed at them. And wooden ones still have fragile springs in them... take up a lot of space... won't hold stuff that really needs a hard pinch.
Binder clip uses:
Recently my fella (boyfriend? sort of?) was staying in a hotel room where he said he couldn't sleep. I sat on the bed myself - yummy and soft - perfect for sleeping, and didn't understand why he was having trouble - there were millions of pillows too.
He said that the sun comes up at 5:30 right through his window and wakes him up, but all he could do was build a barrier of pillows to hide his head behind. I said I'd try to figure something out - because I'm the family joke of over-preparedness. And I did. I told him that sometimes it's good to have a teacher around, because I had a binder clip in my stuff (yeah, I brought along a pile of papers to grade while he wasn't around - good thing too, because Warcraft was down most of the day after the patch and its resultant crashes). It was perfect to pull those heavy curtains together (though they aren't hung that way - they're just decorations on the side) just over my own height, and hold them together so that at least the sleeping area was completely sunrise-blocked. :) I think he was glad I was prepared.
So, the first tip is to bring a few binder clips - medium sized or better. (You could also use those butterfly-style large paper clips, but believe me, those things wouldn't hold that hundred pound velvet curtain together....) You could bring clothespins, but... most of the time around here, all you can find are plastic ones which crumble if you look cross-eyed at them. And wooden ones still have fragile springs in them... take up a lot of space... won't hold stuff that really needs a hard pinch.
Binder clip uses:
- pull heavy curtains together for privacy or late sleepers
- hang stuff on the clothesline (there was one installed over the bathtub, but no clips whatsoever)
posted by Me at 3:57 PM
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