From: Kathie [katiecakes_us]

Great Ideas On How To Reuse Common Household Items!

  1.. Baby Wipe Container: Use the cylindrical type of container with the hole in the lid to dispense yarn to keep it from tangling. 

  2.. Cardboard Toilet Paper/Paper Towel Tube: Tape wax paper over one end of the tube to block hole. Stand the tube upright on the wax paper end, pour plaster of paris into tube. Let dry then use as sidewalk chalk. 

  3.. Carpet: Cut old carpet into small pieces and place under the feet of heavy furniture. 

  4.. Cereal Box: Cut top of box off at an angle, cover with material (old jeans) and use as a magazine holder. 

  5.. Egg Cartons: Turn carton upside down and use as a taco holder. 
    a.. Fill cardboard carton with lint from dryer and pour melted wax into each egg holder (melt wax in empty coffee canister). When wax is dry break apart and use as kindling. 
    b.. Use egg cartons as organizers for craft items. 
    c.. Use styrofoam cartons for palate when painting. 

  6.. Film Canister: Use a film canister as a traveling sewing kit: Supply with safety pins, needle, thread (wrap some thread around a plastic bread tab), straight pins and buttons. 
    a.. Use a film canister to mix small amounts of paint. 

  7.. Old Jeans: Tie pant leg from cutoffs into a knot and use as a pull toy for dogs. 
    a.. Use pieces of old jeans as patches for other clothes. 

  8.. Panty hose: Use waistband of old panty hose as giant rubber band for holding garbage bag onto garbage can or holding newspaper pile together. 
    a.. Put a piece of panty hose over the back of your hard drive to keep dust out. 

  9.. Plastic Breath Mint Containers: Fill container with salt and another with pepper and take camping. 

  10.. Plastic Milk Jug: Turn jug upside down, cut bottom off and use as a funnel. 
    a.. Use the bottom of the jug as a saucer to put under plant pots.