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Mounting Putty works great to hang things on walls

Have you ever used mounting putty? I had my doubts but it works great.

It is also called tack adhesive. I tried two brands Elmers and Loctite and they were both excellent. They cost between $2-$4 and adhere to paper, wood, tile, linoleum, cinderblock, brick, metal, plastic, mirrors and glass. I used paper with it.

I had tried using Duck Tape to hold some light weight art that I had created. They kept falling down because the duck tape wasn’t sticky enough. I tried more duck tape, and that too kept falling down. The posters were light, but that duck tape just wasn’t doing the job. The other problem is that duck tape pulls away paint when I took the art work off the wall, so that isn’t a good strategy either.

In the past I had always held things up with nails, and things like that. Unfortunately in some housing situations this isn’t possible. For example, people who live in dorms normally have walls made of cinderblock and drywall. So those things aren’t acceptable. The other part is that when you reposition artwork you can really mess up your walls. Many times people live in apartments where they are charged for damage, or in places they won’t live long term. So this kind of thing is ideal for them.

Why am I writing about this? This is a technology that I was ignorant of. I had seen in it the store but quickly passed it over because it didn’t fit into my experience. Normally I am willing to try new things, but it was almost invisible to me. Only when a friend told me that it works, was I willing to give it a try.

Strange isn’t it? We get stuck on solutions to problems because they work for us, but there are better solutions if we are willing to try new things. We all get stuck on ways of doing things rather than focusing on outcomes.

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