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# [Creative Thinking Questions - Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Rhyming](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/creative-thinking-questions-something-old-new-borrowed-and-rhyming)

 Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | Jun 2, 2014 9:50:28 AM

You know the old phrase for weddings that goes, [“Something old, something, new, something borrowed, and something blue”?](https://www.brainzooming.com/something-old-something-new-something-borrowed-and-something-wildly-creative/1005/)

You can turn the expression into handy [creative thinking questions](https://www.brainzooming.com/creative-thinking-questions-my-favorite-creative-thinking-question-so-far/20145/), with a twist, of course.

### Creative Thinking Questions - Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Rhyming

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When you are looking for new creative thinking and ideas, look at your situation and ask:

- What’s something **old** about this that is now overlooked but can be refreshed?
- What’s something completely **new** we could do or create?
- What idea can we **borrow** from a similar (or perhaps dissimilar) situation that applies?
- What would make customers (or whoever the audience is) **blue** if unless it’s improved?

Those work well, but of all the creative thinking questions, the one for “blue” is a little clunky, don’t you think?

Here is the creative twist – use another word that rhymes with “blue” to complete your fourth creative thinking question.

Try one of these instead to have Something ________:

- Boo: What’s the scariest thing we could do to change this situation?
- Do: What would prompt our audience to act with greater intensity?
- Due: What change would we make it we had to implement it right away?
- Few: How could we make this more rare and valuable?
- Glue: An idea that would stick with people better?
- Pooh: What would be the coolest shit we could make?
- Stew: What if mixed everything together?
- Zoo: What animal characteristics could we creatively apply?

Take one or more of these creative thinking questions for a walk down the aisle and see what new ideas you imagine, for better or worse! – *[Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/?page_id=1197)*

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