Do make ornamental pyramids out of thick magazines. Discarded Sears and Roebuck catalogs used to be folded page by page, making colorful table decorations of fluted pages, sometimes used as doorstops. One way to use time during long winter snows, this is a slow piece of work but the result will amaze you. A small book (one hundred pages or so) will make a good file for bills, envelopes, etc.