Yes, to add weight to the bottom of the cat tree and make it more stable.
Does it count if I use it to keep a cabinet shut? Ever so occasionally I use it for its intended purpose.
Yeah, I agree with this. I rarely use the Yellow Pages either anymore but I still find comparing ads helpful. Online searches get you a list of businesses and a possible website. In the YP, you can fairly quickly determine what type of business it is from the ads (i.e. one aimed a lower income people, a long established business, etc.).
I don’t use them much; I Google instead. Even at work, I can’t remember the last time I looked up a number in the phone book. So many people, including us as a couple, are cell-phone-only, so we are not in the white pages. That section is getting less useful all the time.
But my husband still does use the yellow pages regularly, so we have “the phone book” around. (We are in a small enough city to have white and yellow pages in one book–and blue for government numbers.) The point above about needing them for emergency calls when the power is out is enough for me to hang onto them.
They do have lots of ‘extras’ in there, too–earthquake info, first aid, maps, seating charts for local venues, and most importantly–menus of local restaurants.
When we get a new phone book, it’s been my habit to toss the old one in the car. That’s come in handy a time or two, even if it’s just to pick a place to eat or confirm an address.
I keep a phone book in the car, because they have city maps in them. 2 other phone books are serving as a very cheap monitor stand.
Absolutely. If I want to know a phone number, I consult the phone book. It is extremely simple.
Contrariwise, I just went to Google.com to look for their “phone number search feature” and couldn’t even find it.
I use mine because the places I order take-out from have their menus included. Not that I’ve ever looked, but I’d be surprised if my favourite local Thai place has their menu online.
I just moved to a new town, and depended on the yellow pages to find out what restaurants were where. Very useful. Now that I know what’s what, however, they’re less useful.
I almost never use the white pages and only rarely use the yellow pages. On those rare occasions that I use the yellow pages I’m browsing a large category (e.g. are there any lawyers that perhaps write wills within easy wheelchairing distance of where I live?). However, I still like to have them around just in case for some reason I can’t use my computer. I use www.canada411.com for my normal looking up of people and companies.
We live in a very rural county, and there are some businesses here that don’t have websites. Using the book is lots quicker than trying various searches to find what I want. I figure I use it at least once a month.
Yes, I use mine. It’s easier to look at the book than it is to go online. And I like to be able to see different companies’ listings all together, rather than looking them up one by one.
Thanks, but they’re not that kind of bulb – I bought something like that and it didn’t work, so I took it back.
I use it a few times a year, certainly.
Anytime I need to find a trades person, auto mechanic, or other local business person who’s running a small shop without their own IT dept, it comes in handy.
I think us rural folks use them more in general.
This is a bad place to take this poll unless you want it focused on heavy intwar net users…
I use the online version, it’s easier. The paper copies hang around here for a bit, then go out into the recycling.
I’m using mine right now, as it happens. It’s weighing down a bit of fabric I’m glueing over a threadbare chair.
Yep- only old people use them. And of course, people are just going to stop aging so there won’t be old people.
Yeah, I use them somewhat regularly at home and work. At home, I don’t always have a computer up and logged onto the net, and all of our computers are usually upstairs or downstairs from the main living area. So it is often easier to simply pull the book out of the kitchen drawer, than to go to a computer, turn it on, wait for it to boot up, and search.
At work in Chicago I often use the Yellow pages for places near my home in the suburbs. Not sure why. Probably just habit. But especially if I have looked up a number before and underlined it and/or dog-eared the page, I feel I can find it quicker and more reliably than on-line.
I also feel Yellow pages are better than Google for looking up a particular type of business in a particular area - say pizza places or plumbers near you. If you know the name of a business, Google is great. But if you just know the TYPE of business, Google might not be quite so great.
Not while I have an Internet collection.
But we will get paper ones as long as the publishers can get away with offering dual sale to customers: thye can’t get in the on-line version unless they also pay to get listed in the paper version.
OTOH, one could always make a costume out of Yellow Pages-paper. 
If I’m looking for the number of a particular place, I use the net. But I find the phone book quite useful for looking up repair people/tradespeople/etc. I’ve never had an easy time finding a plumber, roofer, painter, etc. on the net. I like the display ads in the paper phone book, because they tell me a bit more about the business.
That’s about it, though. For everything else, it’s the net all the way.