I keep a supply of good stainless steel spokes around as I'm regularly making hooks and tools from them. Lately it's been hooks: three of them to hold the inflators at the LBS, keep them off the floor where they'd be kicked and broken. I've made a two ended hook to hold a chain closed while I open or close a quick link. Another spoke, using the hub end became a tool to help feed a chain thru an RDs cage. One with a blunt, smoothed end for setting and resetting a bike computer. Another with a pointy end for poking things. Sometimes I make something from a spoke for a single use then recycle it. As I work part time at our LBS, I have a endless supply of spokes.

I've also been making hooks to hang masks, either to dry after washing or for storage hung from the rear view mirror or visor in the car. Modern times, eh?