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Let us engage in a mini workshop for turning your old things to something new! Hooray, let us learn things that is both beneficial not only for you, but also for your mother, your father, sisters, brothers and for everyone! Haha.

If you are such a lazy bum in cleaning your office, outside or inside your home, maybe you need to start fixing it now. If you are tired of your old issue magazines that are just lying in your office floor or sitting dead in your office table, then maybe you need to dispatch them. But ooppss, not in your trash can.

Your old magazines are still usable. Turn them into something useful. Innovate things from what you think is just trash and you will be delighted with the results.

My mom used to do paper mache out of old newspapers and telephone directories. She can create big bases and she onced made a full paper costume when her friends nominated on the Sexy Mommy competition in our town. Haha, we said she must make environmental friendly props to abide with the theme's Mommies Participation in Global Awareness .

So if you have old magazines, unused newspapers and other materials you think you can make fun with recreating it, then try making magazine racks and other stuufs like the one in the photo.

If you have something like of a similar stuff, something old turned to new from your offices, why not share it. We'd love to have your photos and stories.

I was in grade school, a 1st grade, when our teacher asked us to make an essay of our ultimate dreams and as an additional assignment, we have to make a representation of that dream and will be passed the next day.

That time I still do not know how to make paper airplanes. But I know someone who can perfectly make them, my older brother. Unfortunately he was studying in another country that time and the other option left for me is to ask my father. But no, at my young age, I know my father wouldn't bother helping me out because it is a popular discussion in our house how busy my father was, how he worked almost 24 hours a day and how my mother would complain about him being work-addict. And my dream of having my father even on a short conversation is far from coming true.

The last resort I have is to make a plane from my own effort, my own experimentation. So I snatch a few pieces out bond paper out of my mother's home office and started building my own paper plane. It took me over 3 hours and at least 50 papers before I finally settled on a poor but flying paper in a shape of an airplane. I went to our veranda and threw it outside to see if it will fly on a open field. Unexpectedly, it landed on my fathers coffee on the table while he is busily reading his morning new paper.

He crashed it and called me down. I was shivering thinking he will scold me. Instead, he told me to get a new paper and stated he will make me the best flying paper plane ever. We did it together, we had fun making it.

The poor paper plane was crashed but a new and a better one was created. And my paper dreams of being close to my father came true. Until now I still make paper planes the way my father taught me. And up until now, these planes I made are the best flying planes I've ever seen. The best, just like my father.

On one point he would prevent me from entering the house, but because I am such a bully and jokingly said he doesn't want me in because there's a girl inside his house, he finally let me.

I was laughing when he told me the real reason why he doesn't want me in. It is because he is ashamed that I will see and tease him about his old typewriter. His old typewriter, dating back since we were high schools for like 7 or 8 years ago. He used to be the best typist in our typing class because he owned a typewriter and we don't. But after a few good years, he still wasn't able to replace it with a more high tech one, like a computer.

He said he can't get over with his typewriter. He has this 'emotional attachment' to his typewriter that the thought of replacing it is not in his vocabulary. The interesting part is, his typewriter is still operational.

I have nothing against using old typewriters, its just that its not practical anymore to use it and very not convenient. Unlike in computers where you can type your ideas and just change it if there are errors, in typewriters you have to perfect the draft before typing it. And getting one wrong letter means you have to start typing over again and another bond paper will go to the trash can.

I told him theres nothing to be ashamed of. He can keep his typewriter but I advised him to get himself a computer. Who knows, his typewriter will cost a lot in the future as a collectors item haha.