Another great use of newspapers
If you don't use a certain bedroom ceiling fan during the winter, you will want to carefully dust the blades before firing it up again in the spring. You already knew that.
But if you don't have a handy tarp to place over the bed beneath the fan, neatly spreading out newspaper pages can work as a dust-catcher.
And you might even see an interesting article or ad that you had missed when you first read it.