What do you use now for the things you used to do with newspaper (other than reading the news)?

I no longer use newspaper. I now use the plethora of plastic bags for everything you mentioned.

We get a small weekly local freebie paper, so I haven’t had to deal with that totally, yet. I’m using junk mail to pad things in packages that I mail, and for fire-starting. I am much more aware of the lack than I used to be, I am hoarding the little freebies.

You can use a tablet for swatting flies, too, but it gets expensive (in replacing both tablets and windows and screens – you know, the screens that are supposed to keep the flies outside in the first place).

Still get the Times daily. Good thing too – what would I put on the floor on snowy days?

Our newspaper just went up 30+% without bothering to inform us (we have an autopay). We are now discussing whether or not to continue taking it. Most of what is in it I have heard/read by the time we get it. But, it is still handy for packaging breakables when moving or shipping. Plus, the comics. I would have to look each up individually.

@rojo I look at getting the paper newspaper as partly a thing I am doing to support the continuation of journalism in America but it is costly.

I rarely use the papaer after I have finished reading it. I usually put it in the recylcing bin.

I do use the paper and a vinegar-water solution to wash big windows.

@zenvelo Yeah, me too. Unless it’s a snowy day.

I use newspaper, because I get the newspaper.

I use some to start fires and the rest I pass on to my sister in law. They have a farm, so she has many uses for them.

I still get a paper and use it for all sorts of things.
Yesterday I put a section on the kitchen counter and placed my knife sharpening whetstone on it. The newspaper caught the water and kept the stone from sliding around. Perfect.
Today, I wrapped a suet cake for the birds that I made from bacon fat and black oil sunflower seeds.
And of course the paper is converted into BTUs in my wood burning stove. 20 pounds of paper is worth about $2.50 in heat.

I buy the Sunday paper now and then so I have paper around for a drop cloth for painting and gluing projects.

For starting charcoal recently I had no newspaper, so I used pieces of the almost-empty charcoal bag.

I don’t subscribe to the local newspaper, but most people where I live do. When I need some I can always ask for someone’s throwaway. I can buy the paper for 50¢ right at my mailbox center if I need it. This is the residential mailbox for my subdivision, there is a swimming pool and bocce ball there too, it’s not a store front mailbox.

I do usually have a couple of copies of our recreation news, that is newspaper paper and an average of 20 pages (pages 1–40ish) so I do have that stashed usually.

I use it to stuff boxes for shipping, which I don’t do much of. Mostly, I wind up throwing it in the recycle bin.

Tear them into smaller pieces and stick on a wire coat hanger especially redesigned to be festooned upon the wall about yea high.

Take the sheets, one at a time, to clean your glass.