What Do You Do With the Bands?

[Newfie]

I throw them into an Scotch bottle case for a future contest that I'm going to hold here.
...snip

Cool, I'm going to shamelessly borrow that idea some day if you don't mind.

Chris, I've been saving everything that I liked, and those that were putrid as a reminder. Yard gars or mundane stuff gets tossed. Right now, they're in 2 Short Story boxes.

[Lopaka]

Cool, I'm going to shamelessly borrow that idea some day if you don't mind.

Go ahead, I borrowed it from someone else.

[derivation]

I also save all of my bands. At some point after I've smoked a lot more, I'm planning on making a bulliten board out of my bands and corks from wine I've drank. Tentatively, the corks will be arranged horizontalliy, and will be used for pushing the tacks into. I think I'm just going to have the bands be a border around the edge of the board. Kind of like this:

+ | BAND | BAND | BAND | BAND | BAND | +
_ [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] _
B [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] B
A [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] A
N [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] N
D [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] D
_ [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] _
B [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] B
A [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] A
N [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] N
D [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] D
_ [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] _
B [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] B
A [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] A
N [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] N
D [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] [cork] D
+ | BAND | BAND | BAND | BAND | BAND | +

Hope that's not too marta stewart for you all.

[ashauler]

I still do the note taking, band taping thing for the first smoke of a certain kind. I use 3X5 cards kept in a small file box. I keep some additional bands that I think are really cool, or if I particularly like a cigar, and line them up in a row on top of the cabinet in my office. All others are just trashed.

[cigarsarge]

Dip em in chocolate ans eat em.

[597]

You mean your not suppose to smoke them?

[AK & Stogie]

I know this is a little old, but I had an idea from my cousin and just recently made a few of these with the help of a laminator, scissors, and some rubber cement.
http://www.pbase.com/akstogie/inbox

They are suprisingly simple to make, and are my bookmarks for the many books I am reading, and will never finish. On the one side is a cut out from a JR Catalog, and on the other is glued the old bands. Then just cut, and laminate.

[Bkcloud114]

Go ahead, I borrowed it from someone else.

Hhhmmmmmm....... I wonder who ??..... LOL

[SmokinDVM]

I have not used these guys, yet. I almost did when they had slot machines on the site. They rotate in new items.
http://www.bandwagonusa.com/

[sprangalang]

I've been saving them. Maybe make a mosaic on a box or something.

[Dickson]

I have two empty five gallon water bottles. One for premiums and favorites(It actually helps my poor memory) , the other for the rest.