What To Do With Old Bowling Balls ? (1 Viewer)

Closet cleaning yielded 4 of my old bowling balls. I'm looking for ideas on what to do with them other than giving them to the local bowling alley or trashing them.

Give it to these guys?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Blendtec

Become a comedy super-hero ala Mystery Men?

The possibilities are endless

My uncle painted one and put it in his garden as an ornament.

Do you have any friends who are pilots? You could take up the sport of car bowling.


http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_...r_bowling.html

You could always Freecycle them to other bowlers.

Maybe you can stack them in your lawn in the shape of a pyramid and try to get it into the new 7 wonders of the world...

Jay

Just don't try to stack them like Ice 9.

Maybe sell them on eBay. If that's too much of a hassle, and you don't think you can make any money on them, the bowling alley idea isn't bad. At least you'll know they'll be getting some use.

I doubt they'll get much use at the bowling alley. I use a 16 pound ball and have rather small fingers (I know I'll regret that statement).
Perhaps Letterman would like to drop them from a tower

You could always donate them to a local school, rehabilitation program or rec group. They could get them redrilled if necessary, and I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

Regards,

Joe

I'm curious why someone would own more than one bowling ball. I've had one for years and the only reason I can see why I'd ever get another would be if something happened to the first one. I doubt my hand size is going to change.

Can someone fill me in?

Bowling ball technology changes. The ball manufacturers are always coming up with new ball types (urethane, resin, blah blah blah) to make us buy a new ball when the old one might be just fine (kind of like golf clubs, I guess).
The problem with these new balls is that over time, the dressing from the lane is absorbed by the ball. So the ball that used to hook a certain way starts to hook or react differently.
Believe it or not, your hand and fingers do change over time, but my usual reason for buying a new bowling ball is the desire to improve my average via technology

Pigs love bowling balls. They will push them around the pen all day, no joke.

That's what my wife did with her old bowling ball a few years ago.

The most popular thing is to give them to the bowling alley.

You could make it an ornament and hang it from your Christmas tree.

Goodwill 'em.... or donate them to an art school for use in sculptures or something. The only reason that comes to mind is because there's a well-known frozen custard stand here in town that has a bowling ball sculpture on the wall.

Only in Miwawkey, Dave

1 word: trebuchet

We give tons of stuff to ARC or Habitat for Humanity. They will take almost anything you don't need anymore or don't want - as long as it is in decent working shape. One person's trash is truly someone else's treasure.

Just carry it around with you and once in a while, say

"Anyone know the difference between this bowling ball and Rosie O'Donnell? No? Well, the diference is ...... if you really had to, you could eat the bowling ball."