When I was but a young'un
...I was taught to scrunch them up by making a circle with my thumb+forefinger and poking them into it until they end up as a sort of compressed ball. The idea being, this way if you put them in a bin outdoors, they won't get blown out again by a gust of wind.

I still do it, and people still look at me like I'm a loony (or expect me to make it disappear like I'm doing a magic trick).
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Fri 16 Dec 2011, 10:10, Reply)