If desired, old audio tapes can be given a second life. They can be used to create lampshades for table lamps, phone holders on a desktop or a decorative panel on the wall.
Sooner or later, you will have to part with old audio tapes. Almost everything that is stored in the collection is already available in digital form on the network or on a computer. Unique recordings should be digitized at home or in the salon.
But, before you send audio tapes to the trash can, it is worth seeing what you can make of them. Audio cassettes are made up of two useful components: magnetic tape and a plastic box. Both can be given a second life, made to serve as useful objects, showing imagination and spending a little time.
The second life of magnetic tape
Needlewomen know that the soles of crocheted or knitted slippers wipe very quickly. No matter how beautiful and comfortable the handmade slippers are, it is difficult to make a wipe-resistant sole for them.
It is enough to tie them from the old audio cassette tape and the problem will be solved. The long life of your favorite slippers is guaranteed.
Magnetic tape clutch bags crocheted with simple crochet posts hold their shape very well. If you decorate such a handbag with hand-made flowers or rhinestones, then you will not be ashamed to appear in a theater or restaurant with it.
Famed designer Erica Iris Simmons creates portraits of famous musicians and popular artists using audio cassette tape. And these are real works of art. Such a panel will decorate the home, make it unique and stylish.
The second life of audio cassette boxes
Plastic boxes of audio cassettes are more readily used by craftsmen in various directions of handicraft than tape.
What are they not doing! And lamps, and holders for small items, and stands for phones, even furniture.
Convenient shape, transparent walls and the number of boxes will tell you what you can think of from them.
Even if there is only one such box, you do not need to throw it away. This is the perfect desktop stand for your phone, photo or calendar. It is enough to bend it so that one of the parts becomes a support, and the second turns into a holder for a phone body or a photo. All that remains is to decorate the side parts according to your own taste, if necessary, and you can admire and show off a useful device.
Storing headphones and adapters from a computer or laptop is always a problem. They get mixed up with each other, get lost. If you put each cord in a transparent box from under the cassette, then storing them in a desk drawer will save a lot of space and nerves.
These are just a few options for the second life of unnecessary audio tapes. But skillful hands and creative imagination have no limits in using such valuable material for creativity as old audio tapes.
Toothbrush holders in the bathroom, storage racks for disks, cases for computer system units, lamp shades for lamps - all this, created from once beloved audio cassettes, may well become a design highlight for the interior or useful devices in the household.
