With the recession wreaking havoc on the jobs market, you might be faced with an excess of business card holders from family and friends. Why would they give them to you? Well, these can be bitter reminders of jobs past and instead of throwing them away, thereby causing environmental damage, your family and friends chose to give them to you - the green arts and crafts person!

Student Wallets

You can transform business card holders into student wallets, which will draw attention to your ingenuity. Just remove all the business cards and voila! You have wallets that are lightweight, stylish and unique.

Just fold the dollar bills the same way you would in a conventional wallet and place them inside. You will have an organized wallet that can be easily opened and stored inside your bag or in your jeans/suits pockets.

Of course, if you can transform business card cases into bills wallets, then you can make them into coin purses! However, try to separate your bills and coins in separate holders.

Pen Holder

If your business card holders feature pen holders, then just re-use them. You can stick in Post-It notes into the business cards slot, position it near telephones and fax machines, laptops and computers and jot down ideas and thoughts easily!

You will have a hand-dandy way of taking down notes while your pens and pencils will be more organized. Now, that is truly helping the environment while helping yourself in the process.

Document Organizer

Remember when you scribbled down something on a piece of paper, stuffed it somewhere and just when you need it most, it goes missing like the FBI' most wanted man? Well, with business card holders doubling as scrap paper holders, you will not miss these valuable pieces of information so easily.

Just scribble down the information, fold it and stuff it inside the business card case. When you need it, just rummage through it and voila! There it is again seeing the light of day.

Or you can stuff small bills and receipts in there. This way, those little receipts that you need to return merchandise to the store can easily be located. You can organize these bills according to kind of store and by utility company, if you want.

Small Souvenir Holders

Remember the times when your souvenirs and mementos from your children's infancy keep missing? Well, with business card holders as souvenir holders, you have more chances of keeping them where you can easily access them for a trip down memory lane.

For example, the hair strands from your baby's first haircut and navel, separately of course, can better be kept inside an old business card case than in, say, a small cellophane package. And cute, to boot!

Indeed, it just takes a little ingenuity to re-use business card holders. The important thing is to use your imagination to re-design them and you have little treasure holders, which you can then give as little gifts. Just make sure that there are no personalized engravings on them!