Amazing Uses for Plastic Bags
1. This being March why not kite making material? 2. Going fishing - put several in your tackle box For the fish, bait, to sit on; even a rain hat. 3. In your car - trash bag,keep rags or fluids,or how about putting the gloves in one, so you can find them the...
Cheap Date Ideas?
How about your own backyard Drive-In Theater complete with popcorn.All it takes is aa TV and VCR and your favorite movie Yeah the mosquitos will join you,but if you recall they also did at the Drive-In. Hey you can lie on the grass on anything or anyway your...
Reuse Food Packaging
I reuse cereal bags from the boxes. I never had a problem with freezer burn. Reuse. The New A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned
Guitar Picks from Repurposed Items
Would it be possible to reuse those plastic tabs or the clip seal on many loaves of bread as guitar picks? Could they work in a pinch? Alternative uses for a better tomorrow.
DVD Cases for Photos
Refacing the case of your favorite CD with your personal decorating on their cases can bring you many an hour of finding the right ideas and acting on them. I have created several which suit my tastes fine. I usually use parts of old calendar and magazine pictures...
Uses for Floppy Discs?
A Challenge! Foot Floor Hockey or Shuffleboard, a divider for card file box, construct small boxes out of them. Create art out of them, possibly jewelery. How about ice or pottery scrapers, sew up in material with say crumpled up paper, make bean bags. Magazine...
Reuse Styrofoam Trays for Crafts
The trays themselves can be the craft. For instance impressing a cookie cutter into one. you will have that figure to decorate say for your Christmas tree., You can also make picture frames from those trays Or how about a glider airplane,which you can decorate...
Recycling Newspaper Throughout The House
Reusing Newspaper? I was just asked the other day about this subject. I rarely buy a newspaper anymore,so I have little experience in reusing them. One thing Scrap booking cutting out and saving articles for future generations. I just found some old articles...
Shredded Paper Craft Ideas?
The idea of creating a picture from a coloriful shreaded paper source comes to mind. first draw the line boundaries of your picture. then raise those lines by gluing maybe yarn the same colour as the bits of paper you would be using in that area. then with...
Reusing Onion and Orange Mesh Bags
Mesh bags to collect sea shells. How about using for wet swimming stuff. How about drying plant leaves for craft projects. I see one of those bags hanging in the closet with say many old gloves in it for next winter. Hey, it wouldnt take much to make a minnow...
Cereal Boxes to Organize Craft Supplies
Yes paperboard cereal boxes are handy..I make file folders out of them. I am presently putting kids stickers on them cutting them out to make stencils and stamps. I weatherized my windows and doors last winter with them I use them for throw away cutting boards...
Use Plastic Grocery Bags for Packing Material
Also try using those cereal box bags in youur shipping containers. you can inflate them and seal them to act as a cushion. as a matter of fact as stongs as they are. you could wrap your item in one. there will nbe little danger of it being pierced. I know that...
Ideas for Reusing Large Size Creamer Bottles
A Container will always be a container, Only you limit its possibilities. It can store most anything but raw food products which the plastic might leech upon. It can be decorated anyway you want. You supervise all it creation. How would I reuse this coffee...
Transfer Onions to Naval Orange Bags
The mess bags come in handy with many reuses; collecting things of nature, like small rocks,leaves twigs, perhaps picking wild fruits like berries maybe cherries. How about more humane for your fish catch, instead of a stinger. Maybe catched and release crabs...
Simple Kids Crafts?
Give these children an empty soda bottle and asked them to figure out what to do with it. Just the container and cap itself has many possibilities. Tell them they are the inventor. I would bet you they will come up with many ways to reuse that bottle and cap...
Reusing Plastic Pens?
Thank you, for all your very good ideas for the reuse of plastic pens. I would bet there are plenty more out there. Dont be shy if the idea works for you ,then it is a good one. I wonder if it would be possible to make a basket just out od plastic pens? Someone...
Reusing Plastic Pens?
On reevaluating the plastic pen body itself. I can see unique earrings, neckleces, pins, bracelets and even money clips being fashioned. Lets face it these plastics come in every colour (that is a big plus). The key is how to cut them. Some kind of saw blade...
Use Vinegar for Cleaning Purposes
Hospitals using vineger? I took my wife into a local Emergency Room about 2 years ago. i looked around and found many uncleaned areas that had to be that way for days. Dust ,stains built up dirty wax on the floor . Even the table she where she laid the underneath...
Using Less Laundry Soap?
By the way that detergent cup you use to dispense your soap. if you keep rinsing that cup after you dispense you aloted amount of detergent. you will find there is still more of that detergent stuck on there. I sometimes rinse my cup 5 or 6 times and spread...
Making Rock Crafts?
I happen to be one of those people that collect odd stones from everywhere I travel. This hobby cost nothing and just might keep memories alive for many years. with a little paint and immagination I have made bookends,doorstops and candle holders from some...
5 Quick Frugal Tips For Keeping Warm
Some other Tips 1-use paperboard from cereal boxees to fill cracks around windows 2-reuse cleaned styrofoam meat trays to fill other cold air leaks 3-cardboard attached to outer doors can keep some of the cold air out and the warmer air in. 4-how abour an old...
Crafty Uses For Milk And Soda Bottles
I was hoping that more plastic bottle reuse ideas would be posted here. I personally know around 100 ways to reuse these materials,but it is you who will get the greatest pleasure in thinking then creating new reuses . I do not want to take that from you. Just...
Using Brown Pill Bottles For Crafts?
Well you can use those brown label pill bottles to hold craft items 2-you could decorate those pill bottles for display as curios 3- you could use those pill bottles as supports for homemade things like artificial trees bridge supports or other miniature display...
Crafts Using Small Creamer Containers?
All good ideas. The pity is why we have these containers in the first place. I wouldnt even want to venture the total amounts of those containers used everyday across this world. Ok here are my 10 ideas to reuse those small half and half containers. 1. to store...
Use for Empty Seed Packets
Seed Packets to store Postage Stamps You can also put next years seed in them Use for Scrapbook. A place to hide maybe a 100 dollar bill in open sight Use to store needles and straight pins Store different color buttons book press flower tops store your childrens...
Use Old Magazines for Gluing
Well for that matter you could use pages of old magazines as coasters /placemats.Use phonebook pages to check your oil . maybe emergency toilet paper. Hey dont forget fire starters for kinling. How about tearing them up and adding them into your flower pots...
Is 12 Old Enough to Go Places Alone?
My son was allowed to go to movies ,amusement parks and malls with other then family members around 12 years old. He ODd 9 days before his 21st birthday. Your child you can trust most times. It is who he or she comes in contact with when they are out on their...
Paper Chain Garland
I remember doing one of those paper chains with my son. And the popcorn chain. I made many homemade tree ornaments, Was he ever excited or impressed? I just dont know. I believe it might have worked better if my wife would have joined in making these homemade...
Protecting Wildlife from Your Garbage
And lets not forget some of the chemicals we trash. Empty oil and anti-freeze jugs always there is some left in those containers. also household chemical containers..I guess if you cannot recycle then rinse out the contaiers then glue the cap on them. Yep we...
Soda Bottle Terrarium?
Just type in kidsdomain terrarium on yahoo search.and you will find instructions. Oh ,by the way i made a hanging plant bottle just buy cutting holes on the one side so the plant can hang out and down almost to the floor if you wish. I just poked a hole in...
Craft Ideas Using Stuffed Animals?
If they are small stuffed animals you can hang them from the ceiling of your childs room .Maybe dangle themunder a ceiling fan. 2- you can make a retirement home for worn out stuffed animals Maybe a place in your basement or rec room with a sign They worked...
Uses for Playing Cards
The backs of playing cards in many cases are quite attractive. If you have many differant backs of these playing cards you could create a very unique artwork from them. Maybe a picture within a picture. I doubt ,I have the talent to create such a work but there...
Recycled Food Containers As Water Weights
People pay how much for exercise weights? You can create usable weights from any plastic soda.or milk bottles by adding either water or gravel.sand,or whatever else you can put into a container. Me. I actually have a 2 litre soda bottle full of wastebasket...
Use an Old Phone Book for Paint Mess
Yes a very good idea. I never considered the phonebook for anything but recycling myself, which is very hard to do in my area. You have open my eyes to other possible reuses. There are parts of the book that can be separated and reused as is for years . Pages...
Craft Uses for Keys
A doorbell or a window intruder alarm. Each using several keys as the clanger. 1-Doorbell drill a hole through the doorknob side of the door frame. Run though the hole a piece of electrical wire Secure to that wire a length of fishing line. Now you make your...
Dealing with Paper Crafting Mess
Great Idea! when that bits of ccut paper hits the floor it is hard to pick up. Me/ I sometimes use a plastic soda bottle to put in my craft waste paper.It takes a few more seconds to shove it in the top but I pack it in and sometimes admiire the design I created...
Turning a Can Into a Small Safe?
Lori You know in this time of people stashing drugs all over their homes I am afraid most people would know about all the clever places to hide your money. The one thing that still works better then most is if the object is right in front of your face out in...
Uses for Checkbook Covers?
Also use checkbook folders for to organize in your purse or suitcase 1-a first aid kit, 2-a portable office desks complete with paper clips and all. 3-A manicure and beauty kit mirror file sissors etc, 4-A Hiking and Exploring organizer =notepad -Magnifying...
Uses for Pudding Cups?
Alternative uses for Pudding cups. well if you could reseal the top and clean them out very well you could reuse for small food items like peanuts, small crackers .even refrigerater small amounts of vegetables 2-You could used them for to organizes your drawers...
Caring for a Baby in Hot Weather?
Put shades on your windows to keep the room dark. You also can just shade the sunny side windows and open the otherside , There will be a difference in Temperature. Get yourself a cheap ceiling fan , Some are only a little over 30 dollars Install it and run...
Crafts Using Washcloths?
How about making you dog a blanket for his basket from your old but still good washcloths. the sticthing has got to be good to protect your dogs nails from getting caught. Reccomend a sewing machine and the blanket to fit just inside the basket. 2--Or you could...
Help Dealing With Depression?
Hi Ginny A couple of hundred years ago it was the norm to lose children at birth and quite a few never made it though to adulthood. As a matter of facts Adults for the most part died much younger then they do today. You think they were depressed about it? I...
10 Ways To Reuse a Potato Chip Bag
On Number 8 being taken out Yes it is true potato chip bags are not biodegradable but by using one which you would normally sent to the landfill or incinerator Instead to bury a small pet. you have created a reuse which say you buried your pet in a hankerchief...
Inexpensive Vacation Ideas?
Sandy A vacation is for the mind and body,Now you really concentrate and come up with something you would really want to do and that it is available with in an hour or two of where you live. People all make a bee line for places far away and havent visited...
Tin Can Bird Feeder?
I guess you could make a tin can wild bird feeder easy enough.but how would you stop the rusting. maybe somekind of waxing or vegetable oil treatment? Then again you have to be careful not to poison the birds. Painting the outside is fine with the right type...
Uses for Non-working Freezers?
If you keep you old non working Freezer filled with something,and locked there is little danger children could get in it. If you are still worried then just take off the door latch mecanizm and just use the Padlock. Now lets see what would I do ith an old chest...
Uses for Sippy Cups?
Use the sippy cup for a small plant container or even fresh herbs 2-you could use it for a bank if the lid is still good 3.store one size nails or tacks in it with lid 4.laundry soap pourer 5.hair pin container 6.round cookie cutter 7, storing cup fulls of...
How to Conserve Small, Medium & Large Amounts of Energy
Air conditioning! elimination 1 Buy or rent homes where big establish trees are near your dwelling 2 And yes porches and awnings work to create temperature coolers. 3 The color of your roof shingles can save you energy 4 have less concrete and blacktop around...
How to Conserve Small, Medium & Large Amounts of Energy
How can any of us forget electronics. The computer you are looking at right now Then we have how many TVs in our homes, CD.players big radios,even the little clock radios take their share of your electric bill. Need I tell you how to save energy from your computer...
A Penny Saved... The Morning Latte
Mr. Thriftys Instant Coffee with French Vanilla coffee added for flavoring. 1 heeping Teaspoon of instant from a 99 cent very small jar of coffee Estimated cost 7 cents a cup Got French Vanillas coffee on sale 99 cents for a small tin estimated 6 cents a cup...
Inexpensive Ways to Prepare for Hurricanes?
Important Photographs and papers. Should never be kept in your home, They should be in a bank safety deposit box. Today it is easy to scan and copy your photos and store them on a CD-Rom. you can do the same with your important papers. That way if a disaster...
Jungle Day in the Backyard
My hat is off to you. I am all for children rediscovering their imagination. A backyard can be anything they want. I still remember playing Cowboys with a small stick and sometime just my hand as used as a gun. The horse was the way I ran Galopping. The fort...
Uses for "International Coffee" Containers?
I was thinking they might be handy in a fishing tackle box. You know how the stuff gets tossed around. The smaller can could be used for all sorts of tackle. Other uses Decorate it weight it use it for a door stop or to hold your window up a ways on a hot night...
Stone Garden Markers
I am so sorry about changing the subject abit. I lost a son to an overdose of drugs in 2003. Soon after that happen I started to think about ways to maybe prevent other young people from doing the same. I came up with an idea of leaving Drugs Kill messages...
Keeping a Master Grocery List on the Computer
Someone like me who has to sacrifice food items every month to make the bills . I just try and buy a variety of food differant each time to make us feel better. Perhaps keeping track on the computer my food purchases every month might work ,but I dont know...
Leave No Trace Hiking
Just a suggestion but you need not hike a long distance. i just go maybe a 1/4 to a 1/2 mile and find cover .Then I sit back and become part of the woods. After maybe 15 or 20 minutes the wildlife gets use to you and go about their business. Oh and as you sit...
Book About Popsicle Crafts?
There is a childs magazine called Highlights that every other month has 2 pages of child crafts. I happen to have maybe about 50 of the old Highlights from the 1970s and early 1980s. I am looking at a November 1970 Highlights craft pages.!-It explains how to...
Uses for Cotton Swabs
Alternative uses clean corners in Parakeets water dish A quick bookmark A tire deflater wet the end and pick up single seeds for planting use as pick up sticks (The Game) use as building material for minature trees keep in tool box to clean out drilled screw...
Uses for Empty Babywipe Containers?
Well you could store modeling clay in them Add it to your suitcase to hold little things that tend to get tossed around and even lost. A make do temporary seed starter/flower pot No we arent talking about the cylinder Babywipe containers. for those a bathroom...
Storage Solution for a Mobile Home
Katie I too live in a Mobile Home. I am about to tear down my shed before it falls down. I just dont have the money to build a new one ,or the stamina to repair the old one . I have been Freecycling away much the I rarely use. Besides giving away I know when...
Starting a Gas Mower More Easily?
The day they gave those gas mowers automatic chokes was the day I started to loose my religion. Oh yes I over primed them buttons I did some ritual holding and releasing the feed handle. and checked the spark plug wire What works for me is to pop open the air...
Be Careful When Putting Out a Fire
Does anyone remember the time before smoke detectors? I Do. There were many reports of dogs and cats saving the people .Especially Dogs! Even today once in awhile you hear stories of people being awaken by their pet and saved. Today thanks to man and his very...
Buying Magazines at the Newsstand
Very few new magazines attract me anymore.They are too polluted with Ads and their material always leaves me wanting more. I will tell you what I do. I go to a place like FreeCycle .com and ask people if they want to get rid of their old mags. I also attend...
Storing Water for Emergencies
I never thought much about storing water until after Tom Ridges list of things we should do for an emergency.(He Was The Duct Tape Man) I will tell you my problem with lack of water.(THE TOILET) Yes I have a low flow toilet but it still takes water and even...
3-D Memory Boxes
I have been working with large closed tunnel like cereal boxes to create an illusion complete with some 3D affect. I first thought that yours was a cereal box open. I guess that would be just as possible, I think I will try to create one. Thank you for the...
Entertainment Ideas for a Single Female?
Well, Me not being female or single, probably puts my ideas at the bottom of the list but here goes anyway. We know you have a computer. This opens up the world to you. You can take online course, listen to or even make music. research any interest you might...
Separating Stuck Together Pages?
You might want to think about salvaging what you can out of those books. Maybe putting the good what you really want pages into page protectors then into 3 ring note books. I had to do that with several old pre 1900 magazines. Or you could also just cut out...
Turn Off Electronic Devices That You Are Not Using
Get rid of Cable or Satellite TV; only have one TV set. Get rid of all electric clocks; change to battery. You also might consider satellite radio. Music news sports just a push button away with few to no commercials, and you can be doing other things while...
Green Tips for Back to School
I have a few more sorry I am late suggestions for BACK TO SCHOOL. 1 Preshop on your computer .get an idea what your children would like to have. 2.after you preshop go to you local paper and chainstore websites online to find the best prices and to save energy...
Thrift Store Shopping Tips?
I shop at Good Will, Salvation Army,and Volunteers of America. When I buy something I always say keep the change or add a couple dollars to it. Lets face it they are doing me more a favor then say A chain store does. I have been where those workers are. No...
Selling Books at Your Yard Sale
My way of losing surplus books at my yard sales is to tie the books in FREE with each purchase of something else. Oh. I say a free book with each purchase but if they asked nice they will get more. Books To Me Deserve To Be Read Mr. Thrifty
Jar Lids as Toys
And Jar and can lids continue to be useful for people of all ages. Small Children Pretend dishes-Sand box grader-A little paint and you have a suncatcher- and many tossing games Bigger children paint palets for budding artists- The smaller soda caps can be...
Homemade Rubber Mallet
Homemade tools: Butter Knife for a straight screwdriver A straight end of a table for a paper cutter Philips Screws I have used an old time Can opener Use the same for an awl. Make do drill and tack and staple puller A bent paper clip For Tweezers A Hammer...
Uses for Plastic Deli Platters?
1-Why not reuse the Deli platter the same way several times when you have outdoor or indoor parties. 2-If you are an artist type why not paint a picture on the platter 3-You could also use that platter to set some of your potted plants on it outside. 4-You...
Make Your Own Natural Jewelry
Perhaps, we all ought to go back to Natural jewelry. Some of the oldest his of mans historical artifacts are personal adornments.. Wouldnt it be neat in 3 thousand years for some outer space traveler to dig up a violet flower preserved inside somekind of plastic...
Saving Money Going To The Movies?
Research the movie you want to see first. Asked other people who have seen it . Dont depend on the gotcha film clips on TV. That may be the only part worth seeing. In my area we have one old theater that runs recent films and still only charges 3 dollars after...
Creative Cleaning Tools
A regular soda straw Taped to a vacuum hose can get into very small places with a heck of allot of suction A paper clip end can with a little piece of paper towel or fabric can clean very small crevices A bottle cap can scrape burnt food out of cast iron or...
Crafts in a Hospice Care Setting?
I would asked the person. Talk with them on the crafts they use to do and asked then if they would like to try their favorite again. For instance sewing of any type you could assist them To try to make something of their very own to leave to their loved ones...
Saving Money on Laundry?
This may sound Cruel Or Funny but you still can buy Washboards,and even Wash tubs. I have found to get some things cleaned over the years by just using regular Ivory soap on the stains and rubbing them good and rinsing them throughly does the trick. As far...
Frugal and Environmentally Friendly?
THe reuse of something you might recycle or throw away saves energy and raw materials plus the cost and transportation of such items, and it is fun using your brain making alternatives or copies of an item. Even the most unhandy person can reuse a soda bottle...
Traveling In a Car With Kids?
Playing made up games has always worked when I took children on long trips. Mostly sight and spot games. LIKE- I saw it first that is my Horse or my House. Licenses plate Collect all the states. OR each child picks a color of car and they play to a hundred...
Uses for Potato Masher?
I have a semi round steel potato masher with small square holes in it. I have mashed Apples and Bananas with it. Used it with Pumpkins and Rutabagas I am tempted to say my type of pototo masher might be able to make crushed ice,but I have never tried it, I...
Uses For Unwanted Books?
Well ,I have donated books to Nursing homes and Magazines to art classes at public schools. I am right now getting a bunch of my books together to give to a Use Book Store a couple towns away from me. The owner I know will take good care of them and make sure...
Reusing Light Bulb Packges
Use those Lightbulb Packages when shipping somethiing fragle. You could use them to help build holiday displays for under your tree or with your trains. Put behind pictures in frames Fill in cracks or warped windows to keep cold air out Cut piece of box use...
Recycled Paint Holders
If you are a type of artist you can use large coffee can plastic lids to put and mix you colors If you only have around the house touch up panits jobs to do any type of small can can be used. even the mixing of colors can be done in said cans with lids and...
Ice Scraper Ideas
A plastic Spatula A Plastic lid off a can of something in your trunk cut the bottom of a plastic soda bottle either use it by cup side down. You can also use the rest of the bottle by flattening it at its opening .using your gloved hands hopefully too take...
Frugal Planter Ideas?
Do you want to display these planters on your porch or decks,or are they just seed and bulb starters? If they are just seed starters any throw away container can be cut down and molded to fit the flowers or vegetables. If you care you could paint and decorate...
Saving Money on Music?
Isnt it ashame that we all get Tape and CD recorders ,but cant legallly tape any copywrited music without braking a law, You think we can get our money back on those recorders? Really What can we record. Newscasts? No they are copyrighted Tv soap Operas No...
Inexpensive Frames Needed?
I am looking at individual birds on my wall .I cut all 12 0f them off last years calender. I think it looks better with just the birds then it did with the whole calender pictures. I am thinking of creating my own bird area on that wall area ,making a few trees...
Pileated Woodpecker and Bird Feeder Pole
Warning ! Please if you feed the birds keep your feeders clean up because birds are picking up more and more diseases from dirty feeders. Things lie E-coli are now killing birds. do a search on feeding birds and get all the details. In my area of Central Pennsylvania...
Being Frugal and Single on Low Income?
Do you have a printer with your computer? If so take some time to review this site There are many many ideas here If you can cook Never bye meals for one. Make them for your next days lunch beside your dinner. Grocery shop at discount food places or surplus...
Reusing Laundry Containers
Those bottles can be used again with you own homemade laundry detergent. You could also refill those bottles with grass seed or fertilizer to spread on lawns and gardens. You could stuff oily or combustable rags in them, when filled throw out. Crafts? if you...
Uses For Plastic Hooks From New Socks?
If you are talking about the Plastic clips that comes with some socks. They could be used to clip open a page in a piano or organ book. You also might be able to clip small papers and things to your cars sun visor. Not sure if they would be good clothes pins...
Organizing Magazines?
I found an old torn magazine from around 1917. It had allot of so called secret weapons for WWI. I cut out the pictures and some info on each and made a scrapbook full of that stuff. You also could scan the mag articles you want to keep on a CD rom. If you...
Keeping Your Home Prepared
Well We live in Central Pennsylvania. Not many natural diasters get to us .A smaal Tornado now and then . Floods from a Hurricane every so many years ,and spring flooding from Ice Jams which happen less oftren these days. I would say Eletrical Outages would...
What Are My Figurines Made Of?
I doubt a picture would do much .You have to feel the weight and texture of these figures. Has anybody heard of such a clay made with Salt/Flour and such .An No it isns in anway PLAY DOUGH. Play Dough dries out and has lttle weight. I have tried researching...
