Creative Ways to Use Ordinary Pencil Erasers

Pencil erasers are great for erasing mistakes that you have made while writing, but there are so many other uses that you can get out of an ordinary pencil eraser. You can use them to clean, store, and even secure picture frames. Here is a list of some of the things that you can do with an ordinary pencil eraser.

Creative ways to use pencil erasers: Shine a coin collection

If you have a coin collection that is in desperate need of a cleaning, just grab a pencil eraser and get to work. Just make sure that you don't use this method if the coin collection is rare or really valuable, you may erase the value along their shiny surface.

Creative ways to use pencil erasers: Storage for small drill bits or sewing pins

If you don't have a storage space for your sewing pins, using a pencil eraser works great. One of the problems of using a box to store you sewing pins is you can't exactly grab just one at a time very easily. And there is a potential hazard of spilling the box and losing some of the pins in the carpet, which would hurt later if you happen to step on one. You can easily stick your sewing pins in pencil eraser, they won't fall out, and they are easy to grab. You can also store your small drill bits in a pencil eraser for easy access later, and no worries about losing them.

Creative ways to use pencil erasers: Clean piano keys

It doesn't matter if it's a piano that has real ivory keys or the more common plastic keys, using a pencil eraser works great on both. Just find a pencil eraser that can easily fit in between the black keys as well as the ivory keys. Just gently rub away any dirt, dust, and finger marks with the pencil eraser and the nightmare cleaning job will be done in no time.

Creative ways to use pencil erasers: To help cushion a picture frame

Protect your walls from scuffing and scraping that a hanging picture can cause. Just simply glue the small circular pencil eraser to all four corners of your picture frame. So next time you go to straighten the picture, there won't be any worries of black scuff marks on your wall and the picture will also hang straighter.

Creative ways to use pencil erasers: Clean crayon marks off the wall

This is especially great news to parents who have small children that love to draw art on the walls. All you need to do to get those annoying crayon marks off the wall is get a pencil eraser and gently erase the mark away. The wall will be as good as new.

These are just a few of the things that you can do with pencil erasers. Try them today to see for yourself how good they work.

Sources: Reader's Digest, Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things book