# Recycling excess strings
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion
**Created:** [June 3, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474 "2024-06-03T08:23:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@yocolas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yocolas)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/1 "2024-06-03T08:23:47Z")
so i just got some new strings, and those strings are LONG, the excess string is almost 30cm in length, what should i do with it, does anybody have any idea? i was thinking some hand craft type of stuff
the string in question
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### Author:  [@Georgekouts](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Georgekouts)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/2 "2024-06-03T08:32:55Z")
I use my worn out strings for my kid’s toys. Hang a dinosaur there, a Spiderman figure elsewhere, hang targets and shoot them with nerf guns.
But about the excess string which is considerably smaller…I got nothing.
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### Author:  [@yocolas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yocolas)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 8:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/3 "2024-06-03T08:50:05Z")
i’ve never thought to recycle my used strings, i just put them in a fixed axle wooden yoyo and wait for it to broken, and just throw it on my cupboard lol, now i got an idea to hang my gunpla and pose them like a space battle, thx
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/4 "2024-06-03T09:52:20Z")
String ball. All old or unused string yo the ball
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### Author:  [@Georgekouts](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Georgekouts)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/5 "2024-06-03T10:44:33Z")
I do not understand what you can do with a stringball. Just let it be? What is the use actually?
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### Author:  [@Xanadu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Xanadu)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/6 "2024-06-03T11:09:11Z")
I have the same issue with my strings. I save them in the junk drawer and they come in handy for tying things up. Last Christmas I used a bunch to hang ornaments.
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### Author:  [@yocolas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yocolas)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/7 "2024-06-03T11:22:43Z")
can’t think of any use, other than to chew them obv😒
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/8 "2024-06-03T11:33:10Z")
They’re fun to make! I’ve put ever single string I’ve ever used into mine, and it’s turning out quite nice!
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/9 "2024-06-03T12:32:17Z")
My cats enjoy batting around the string ball
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### Author:  [@HappyYoyoer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HappyYoyoer)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/10 "2024-06-03T13:53:22Z")
How would you make a string ball? How do you attach the strings?
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/11 "2024-06-03T14:13:51Z")
I started with a large knot in one string. Then I usually loop a slip knot through the end of the last string and wind round and around.
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/12 "2024-06-03T14:15:01Z")
Winding and tucking and knotting really no major way to do it just feel how you feel about adding the string
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### Author:  [@Yo-yo\_Power](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yo-yo_Power)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/13 "2024-06-03T14:16:48Z")
I’ve had a project idea for a while but just haven’t done it yet. You could do an art project. Use a board as a base, cut to the shape you want, put some small head nails in the board around 1/2 in apart, paint it all black. Now you can attach and wrap strings around the nails to get whatever design you want. A simple example would be to just spell out Yo-Yo.
I would suggest washing any used string. I would use colors that are iridescent under blacklight.
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### Author:  [@Scoogy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Scoogy)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/14 "2024-06-03T14:24:25Z")
Tie them all together then make a ball
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### Author:  [@Scoogy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Scoogy)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/15 "2024-06-03T14:24:48Z")
You could also make a loom!
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### Author:  [@HappyYoyoer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HappyYoyoer)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/16 "2024-06-03T14:43:39Z")
Anyone else’s strings get stinky?
I don’t have a ton, but they stink!
It’s prolly just sweat from my fingers lol but it’s nasty
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/17 "2024-06-03T15:07:33Z")
Stick’em in a pants pocket and put 'em through the wash!
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### Author:  [@JSERR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JSERR)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/18 "2024-06-03T15:17:07Z")
I throw mine in an old pillow case and tie a knot at the end. I also have coveralls that I wear when I’m doing yard work or under a car. It has a zippered pocket so I throw them in there. They clean up well. Though I haven’t tried reusing one after a wash lol.
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### Author:  [@JSERR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JSERR)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/19 "2024-06-03T15:17:39Z")
My mom got a hold of my string ball and crocheted me some yo-yo holders out of the string. Love those little holders.
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recycling-excess-strings/402474/20 "2024-06-03T15:25:48Z")
Wash them before making your ball
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