# Use for 1,000 Cds ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 1999, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279 "1999-12-23T15:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctordec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Doctordec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctordec)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/1 "1999-12-23T15:43:00Z")
I work in the computer biz and over the years I’ve snagged over a thousand CD’s from anywhere I could. They’re all full of obsolete stuff so I want to use them in a “creative” way. The only thing I could come up with was to find somebody throwing away a big satellite dish and cover the inside of the thing with CDs and make a huge solar furnace to cook with and burn things. Supposedly they make nice coasters too but that seems like a waste. Anybody have any good ideas ?? * * * “Hope is not a method” ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/2 "1999-12-23T15:52:00Z")
I see an ultramodern backsplash for your kitchen. Nail 'em on like shingles. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/3 "1999-12-23T15:55:00Z")
Indoor fireworks. Turn out the lights in your kitchen and pop one in the microwave oven for **no more** than 3 seconds. It’s pretty spectacular. * * * Easy one-step assembly instructions. Pour **Beer A** in **Uncle B**. ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/4 "1999-12-23T16:54:00Z")
Could make a funky suit of armor… or an acadamy awards dress. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/5 "1999-12-23T16:03:00Z")
Do you have a dog? I’m thinking frisbee with the dog. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/6 "1999-12-23T16:14:00Z")
Mobiles for the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/7 "1999-12-23T16:18:00Z")
Are they all AOL cds? I think just about anyone in the world could build up a collection of those freebies. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/8 "1999-12-23T17:21:00Z")
My mom works for a CD-ROM publishing company that had a surplus of (blank) CDs a few years back. They make awesome Christmas decorations. Either hang them on the tree with ribbons, or get a string of large-bulb lights and attach the CDs around the base of the bulb so that the shiny side reflects the light. Pretty cool, no? * * * \\| |/ === '\> ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/9 "1999-12-24T06:07:00Z")
Overlap them and use them as scales on a giant sculpture of a fish. * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/10 "1999-12-24T06:35:00Z")
## You could always glue them to the ceiling of your bedroom right above your bed, for those too cheap to go out and buy a real mirror 🙂 Shadowfox “We are what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/11 "1999-12-23T19:11:00Z")
Do you really feel a need to use them all at once? After all, you could figure out “1001 Uses for 1001 CDs” and then write a book about it. Y’know, things like: CDs make great coasters. Two CDs wired together can make funkier glasses than even Elton John would wear. Poker chips (“I’ll see your AOL and raise you a CompuServe.”) Glue twenty or so of them into a little column and use them to display your bowties or fezs. If you do feel a need to use them all at once, I recommend tiling a wall with them (or the bedroom ceiling, for that amazing combination of kinky _and_ nerdy). * * * JMCJ Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity! ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/12 "1999-12-23T19:15:00Z")
I must be the only firearm enthusiast, sorry _gun nut_, here. AOL CDs and obsolete software make wonderful targets. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/13 "1999-12-23T19:31:00Z")
get a black magic marker, a red magic marker, and make yourself some snazzy playing cards. * * * “I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.” –Wayne Knight ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/14 "1999-12-23T19:48:00Z")
500 pair of earrings. Sell 'em on Ebay. _Somebody_ will buy them. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/15 "1999-12-23T20:11:00Z")
Following **Padeye** ’s suggestion: Tom and Ray Magliozzi (aka “Click and Clack The Tappet Brothers”) are always pushing their “Save the Skeet” Foundation. E-mail them at [www.cartalk.com](http://www.cartalk.com) and see whether they want to use your CDs in an exchange program to ransom captive skeets. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/16 "1999-12-23T21:54:00Z")
Design a fully automatic gun that fires razor-sharp CD’s. Stick one on your forehead and pretend to be a doctor. Paint them like giant coins and use them to pay at a restaurant. Super-glue them to someone’s car. Shiny side out or label side, up to you. Call the local news. Melt them all down and make one HUGE CD. Eat them. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/17 "1999-12-24T00:18:00Z")
I am now trying to collect all the obsolete CDs I can find – though I don’t think I need more than a couple of hundred of them. I have an endless problem with squirrels in my fruit trees, and this past fall the L.A. Times ran an article about some lady who has successfully kept the squirrels off her apricot tree by hanging old CDs on them, like ornaments. I’m game to give it a try! -Melin ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/18 "1999-12-24T01:27:00Z")
Sell them as penis rings. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/19 "1999-12-24T04:38:00Z")
Re-tile the bathroom. * * * Wishing all you at the SDMB Happy Xmas and a GREAT 2000 and beyond! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 1999, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279/20 "1999-12-24T04:49:00Z")
Re-tile the dog. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJM’s page from the Bay](http://members.tripod.com/~weirdstuff/index.html) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-for-1-000-cds/12279.md?page=2)