The notebook rights advocate

See this photo above?! 

This is a part of my notebook collection.

Yes, I have a problem with notebooks and everything that involves paper that wasn't used on both sides.

Paper comes from trees, living beings that deserve our respect. Therefore I have big guilt-trips when throwing away notebooks that I own for years and I never used them or single sheets of paper that I didn't use on both sides.

Right now I'm using an old 2014 agenda that was offered to me at my previous job. I try to use it to draft articles, make todo lists and sketch.

The great thing about it, is that it is "forcing me" to be more creative in my metro trips to work. Giving me a small break to be disconnected from the world!

I found out in the Stuttgart Airport bathroom that I'm not the only one with this paper=trees conscience. There is a Guerilla Paper Waste Elimination Project out there.

These Come from Trees is the project that is trying to save a couple hundred thousand trees a year. Sticking a sticker in the right place and hoping that the person using the paper towels to dry their hands in the public bathroom, thinks twice before getting an extra load of paper and wasting it!

Check out this guy, that saved tons of paper just by teatching us how to clean our hands. His name is Joe Smith and it's worth your time.

The project has also a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/These-Come-From-Trees-Guerilla-Paper-Waste-Elimination-Project-15761364321/

and a twitter acount: https://twitter.com/TCFromTrees

DIY - Notebook with free Postcard

Free publicity postcards are lovely. They are designed to be catchy, lovely, modern, cool... But, unfortunately they are not very useful.

You can't send a free postcard. Most of them have a lot of things written in the back side and there is the possibility that the receiver will think it's rude for you to send a "free postcard" to him (assholes).

I remember that when I used to do Postcrossing back in the days a lot of users would write in their profiles "Please, no free postcards."

So, all that it's left for these little pieces of joy is to be accumulated and after a de-clutter fever to be discarded. Sad but true.

To solve this problem I decided to do something. \o/

I joined together the fact I can't send to recycling paper that isn't used in the both sides to the need of giving this postcards a new chance to shine.

And here it is my....

CREATE A NOTEBOOK USING A FREE POSTCARD

This is a super easy tutorial.

     1. You need a couple of A4 paper sheets, used in one side.

     2. Cut the paper sheets A6  size.

     4. Cut a carton in the size A6.

     3. Make holes in one of the edge of the paper pieces and in the postcard.

     4. Use some wire to tide all up.

     5. Here you have!!! Your Postcard Notebook!