How to Use a Paper Clip

If you've ever needed to break it down, for a tech writing job test for example, here it is.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Paper clip
• Your thumb
• Your forefinger
• A stack of paper

1. Simply stack the papers you wish to hold together ensuing that the corners line up at the top left hand corner.
2. Hold the papers near the top left hand corner with the thumb and forefinger of your left hand.
3. Hold the paper clip between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand with the two rounded edges pointing down.
4. Depress the center of the paper clip with your thumb and slide the papers between the long and short rounded edges of the paper clip.
5. Release your thumb pressure on the clip, and slide the paper clip downward
6. Your papers should now be firmly held together
7. NOTE: These instructions can be reversed if you happen to be left-handed and of course attaching the paper clip at the top corner is only an example, the paper clip can be placed at any point as long as the papers are lined up together at that point.

Tips & Warnings

• Uses Of The paper Clip:
• The paper clip is designed to hold papers together. It allows you to put similar papers, (such as an essay) together to prevent loss of a page or pages. The design of the paper clip allows removal of the pages for ease of reading and leaves the paper undamaged.
• Other uses of the paper clip you may find useful are: Replacing a zipper pull on a jacket, as a hair clip, to temporarily hold a pant cuff that has come un-hemmed, and as a Calder pin when one is not available (this takes some modification from the original design).
• There are probably hundreds of other uses that you will encounter as you use the paper clip to simplify your life.