Ball bearings? Weight plates? Antique irons?

Post date: 2018-07-20 07:26:21

Please give me your most creative/unusual/stealthily practical ideas for simple household objects that can serve as bookends.

Mr. Bath and I are finally unpacking and unstacking our books after our most recent move. We left our old, heavy bookshelves behind and are looking to replace them with the most portable, least expensive ones that we can find, all of which seem to have open frames these days, so we can't keep our books upright using the sides of the shelf alone anymore. We clearly need some bookends.

We'd like to use something with a little more heft (and that's more attractive) than the metal bookends for sale in office supply stores, but even a cheap pair of bookends from Target runs about $30, which will add up quickly when multiplied by a dozen or more shelves. What inexpensive, heavy household objects or hardware store items could we press (sorry) into service this way? Things with shapes that are interesting/aesthetically appealing on their own? It feels like there are lots of possibilities, but I can't quite put my finger on them, and I imagine that MeFites will have some ingenious suggestions about things in our cupboards, tool box, etc. that we're overlooking.

(I know that we could stack some or all of the books after laying them flat, but that seems like a sub-optimal use of space given the number of books that we're trying to unpack and we'd like to be able to grab most of our books without having to readjust stacks to make sure that things aren't going to fall over.)

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