Paper clips?

Question

Does anyone have any idea what HAPPENS to paper clips? I buy boxes & boxes & they all vanish. Zap! Conversely, wire clothes hangers propagate in closets even when I'm 100% sure I replaced them with cloth covered. Just a "silly" question for a change. I wondered if I'm the only one who CAN NEVER find a paper clip when I need it. Where DO they all go?

I LOVE the answers! The same thing happens with my cigarette lighters, & I find them all in one place, as if they'd gotten together in one place for a party. (I didn't do it!) Whimsical, wonderful answers! I wish I could give best answer to EVERYBODY. Thank you so much--boggles my my mind to even think of who to choose, so I'll leave this open for a bit! (Not that it will get any easier.) What a bunch of fantastic people.

I can't STAND IT! You people are so funny I'm almost wetting my pants laughing! I LOVE you! What am I gonna do?????

Answer 1

The "Paper Clip Plan" is a vast left wing conspiracy designed to bankrupt the federal government before the Bush administration vacates the White House, thereby opening the door for the Democratic party's tax increase agenda. It is accomplished by sending Sandy Berger into EVERY home and office in the country on a nightly basis to search out and destroy each and every paper clip on the premises.
The "Coat Hanger Plan" is a plan designed by the Republicans to prove to the country that we have an over abundance of coat hangers, and therefore DO NOT need to pass the Democratic party's tax increase agenda. The details of it's execution are unclear. All that is known at this time is that there is SOME involvement by U.S. Navy Seals and Dick Cheney.

Answer 2

I worked for 28 yrs for the Federal gov't, I was a trained investigator and yrs ago I wondered to myself, like yourself, self I said why are we (gov't) always buying new paper clips? what the hell happens to the old ones. The trail (which I followed) led to 1690 Pennsylvania Ave. , Washington, DC. I knocked at the door, and since there was no reply I use my initiative as a trained investigator and yanked the door open. I was hit by an avalanche (estimated speed of 120 mph) of paper clips. I retired on a 50% disability. (Cuz I was found at 50% my fault for bad judgement - opening the door without a search warrent).. This event happened in 1982, the Federal gov't has not bought any paper clips since then, and estimated that they will not have to til 2026. I still have several of the little rascals stuck in my brain - occasional pain, but I get great FM radio reception.

Answer 3

Paper clips, safety pins, push pens, thumb tacks, ink pens, cigarette lighters, keys, the TV remote, and a 1001 other things and I could write a book on all those socks! I wonder where these things go when you never find or see them again? I'm pretty sure the washer eats the socks, but all that other stuff, I don't have a clue. It's probably all together somewhere having a good laugh on us. But, the world may never know......lol

Answer 4

Dragon,
Have you noticed that we are all loosing things ? Some, rarely, we find. A few other things, we notice, in our confusion, have begun to be owned by other people. However, all of this does not explain the lost of all those things that used to be just here or just there, just a moment ago. It is fortunate that through Yahoo Answers we have finally met because after years of reflection on this exact same question I have decided that there is only one explanation that makes any sense. The items we loose, irretrievably, never to be found again, have just passed on in some way to another dimension. It's clear that in other dimensions there is a great scarcity in items that we have in abundance - like paper clips otherwise, why should they bother ? My advice is to not to question whether your memory is questionable. This is what they want us to do. We have to show these people, in what ever form they might exist, that we live in a democratic dimension which is certainly morally superior. Our endless supply of paper clips is a testament to this.

Answer 5

Paper clips, if left in close proximity to each other, gradually morph into clothes hangers. Haven't you ever noticed that you often find those "different" hangers on the floor? After morphing like that, they just don't have the energy to jump up to the closet rod, so instead they lay half-way out of the closet where you're sure to step on them and then "return" them to the rod. Once up there, they'll begin attacking the legitimate hangers, and within days, you'll find a mess of hangers on the closet floor. Paper clips are an evil conspiracy, due to their delusions of inadequacy. They are simply trying to make up for their small stature. Spread them out on your desk, not touching each other, and you'll have no problems keeping them under control.

Answer 6

How long have you been experiencing these thoughts about Your Friends and Masters the Paper Clip and Coat Hanger People? Why must some of You Humans be so difficult. We are only here to help You. Trust Us, We are Your friends. Drink the water and sleep. Sleep. SLEEP!

Answer 7

Take a rubber band (skinny, not thick) and staple it to the front of a paper airplane. Loop it round your thumb, pull again on the tail of the paper airplane, and launch. Voila--you've switched over a paper airplane proper right into a paper jet!

Answer 8

Its quite obvious really they are consumed by tiny vortexes and take up residense in a alternate dimension where the alter you has all the paper clips she needs lol same with the clothes hangers all in that case it is an inter-dimensional exchange lmao ;)

Answer 9

Paper clips? I'm more concerned about socks in the washer or dryer. I keep putting pairs in and either one comes out or both disappear! Then either a few weeks or months go by and then I have too many coming out! What's going on?

Answer 10

I'm not sure where the paper clips go, but all my pens that work are with them! and just for laughs they send back the ones that don't work!
I just had to add (BuddyL) I liked your answer! Very funny.