Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week is about bookmarks. While having plenty of my own, I’ve definitely found myself grasping around for something, anything, to mark my page while reading outside the home. This might be the first time since I started doing this that I haven’t been able to come up with ten! So here are seven things I will use to hold my place.

Actual bookmarks: I’ve got about a bajillion of these, many of them cheap ones that came with a bookstore order, but some nice ones that I’ve bought as presents for myself or as souvenirs.

Receipts: I’ve always got some sort of receipt in my purse, so these get pressed into service fairly often.

Airline tickets: I will never stop using paper boarding passes, if only because they make excellent bookmarks.

Pens: NOT a long-term solution because they’re hell on the binding, but sometimes you need to save your place and the pen is there and the bookmark isn’t.

Business cards: I think I never have copies of my own business card because they’re all marking pages inside of books somewhere.

Money: I don’t carry cash very often, but if I have it, I try to remember not to use more than a dollar bill because I will absolutely forget it’s in there.

Beer coasters: The paper kind from bars! I tend to grab them when I’m out drinking and then I have a billion in my purse so they’re handy.