Now that you are using the world’s most professional answering service, what do you do with your old phones? Here are 25 uses.
1. Use the cord as a picture hanger.
![Phone cord picture hanger](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/picture-hanger.png)
2. Uncap the ends from the receiver, fill with marbles, put the ends back on, and use as a dumbbell.
![Phones as weights](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/weight.png)
3. Take the ends off the receiver and make it into a planter.
![Making a planter with a phone](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/planter.png)
4. Use it to hold your pencils and pens.
![Phone receiver pencil holder](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/pencils.png)
5. Pretend the receiver is a laser gun and shoot down imaginary aliens!
![Phone as a ray gun](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/laser.png)
6. Use the base as a support for a table with a busted leg.
![Phone holding up desk](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/table-leg.png)
7. See how far you can throw it in a shot put contest.
![Phone as a shot put](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/shot-put.png)
8. Use the cord to booby trap your office door. No one will bother you again!
![Phone cord tripwire](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/boobie-trap.png)
9. In case of fire, tie some cords together and use them as an emergency exit rope.
![Phone cord as a fire escape](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/emergency-exit.png)
10. Stretch out the cord and use it as a clothesline.
![Phone cord clothlesline](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/clothesline.png)
11. Hurl the receiver and see if it will come back to you like a boomerang. If it does, duck!
![Phone boomerang](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/boomerang.png)
12. Use two phones as bookends.
![Phone equipment as bookends](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/bookend.png)
13. Dress up like Batman, paint the phone red, and pretend it’s the Batphone.
![Red batman phone](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/batman.png)
14. Put it in a time capsule.
![A phone in a time capsule](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/time.png)
15. Give it to E.T. Maybe he can use it to phone home.
![Use phone to call ET](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/et.png)
16. Lean a recipe book in front of it while you’re cooking.
![Phone holding up cook book](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/cooking.png)
17. Give it to a local theater company for their prop collection.
![Phone used in a play](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/theatre.png)
18. String a few cords together and use them as a jump rope.
![Phone cord jump rope](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/jump-rope.png)
19. Use two receivers as supports for doing push-ups.
![Phone as push up bars](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/push-ups.png)
20. Uncap the ends from the receiver, fill with rice, put the ends back on, and use as a maraca. Ole!
![Phone receiver as a maraca](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/maraca.png)
21. Use the receiver and cord as a pretend microphone.
![Phone receiver as a microphone](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/microphone.png)
22. Mail it to your mother-in-law with a note that says, “Don’t Call Us. We’ll Call You.”
![Phone with note to mother in law](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/mother-in-law.png)
23. Remove the keypad and adhere it to your office’s exterior. People will think you have an alarm system.
![Phone keypad alarm system](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/alarm-system.png)
24. Keep it on your desk. Then, pick up the receiver when your boss walks by and pretend you’re working.
![Fake phone call](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/receiver.png)
25. Whip up some pasta dough and use the receiver as a spaghetti extruder.
![Phone receiver pasta extruder](https://www.specialtyansweringservice.net/wp-content/uploads/using-answering-service-25-things-now-useless-office-phone/pasta.png)