Think Green - Save and Salvage
Cool Re-Uses
We all have a little creative side, here’s the perfect opportunity to let it shine. How many things to we throw away each and every day that are perfectly good items if we just think of another creative way to use it. How about:
Use plastic grocery bags to line smaller garbage cans.
Old wine and micro-beer bottles make great taper candle holders. Wine bottles will also work well as a vase for a single flower.
Got some scratched up CD’s? Or ones that you know no one will want to buy? Use them for coasters.
Cut images from greeting cards and use as holiday decorations, scrapbook elements or gift tags.
Paint and decorate the lid and remove the label from a baby food jar. Fill it with bath salts, candy or a candle and use as a gift or a wedding or baby shower favor.
Use your empty mint tins for a sewing needle and threat for a travel mending kit.
Use newspapers as packing material when shipping those homemade cookies to your family or use it to wrap fragile items before storing them. Don’t laugh, newspaper can be used as gift wrapping paper. Use colored markers and ribbons to personalize the wrapping. Newspaper works great when used to clean mirrors and windows, no streaks.
Make economical confetti by hole punching used paper scraps.
Paint or draw designs on used paper and then cut into strips. This can be used as the “grass” in Easter baskets.
Empty plastic butter or sour cream containers can be used as an alternative to more expensive Tupperware. They can also be used as outdoor bowls in hot summer weather for your pet.
Local schools often use empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls for art projects. You can also use empty toilet paper rolls to help organize extension cords and holiday lights. Roll the cord or light strand and feed through the roll and you’ll avoid messy untangling when you need them. Mark the outside of the roll with the length of the cord that is contained inside.
Old toothbrushes are great for cleaning grout, polishing your shoes or for any cleaning project where you need to get into a small or tight space.
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