Recycle Carpet Remnants
To impart your feet extra insulation from the cold, line
your boots or rubbers with carpet scraps. Trace your foot on a piece of paper
to create a pattern and use the outline to cut the carpeting to fit. This also
works well for kids’ snow boots.
Recycle Ashtrays
As fewer people smoke these days, what do you do with all
your ashtrays? Use a few as spoonrests in the kitchen. Keep one on the kitchen
windowsill to hold rings when you're washing dishes. Put one in the bathroom as
a soap dish. Others come in handy under plants and in floral arrangements.
Recycle Fancy Doilies
If you have those old-fashioned lace doilies once popular
for protecting the backs and arms of good chairs, you could take them out of
storage and use them as lovely placemats and table runners. You can use them
alone, or with a plastic, solid-colored mat or cloth underneath to protect your
table.
Recycle Soap Chips
Here is a way to use every shred of soap—the bits we save
and never know what to do with. Take a square of nylon netting, put a handful
of soap slivers in the center, fold the netting up so there are a few layers of
net around the slivers, tuck in the ends like a package and sew all around the
edges using heavy thread. It is great for scrubbing collar stains or cleaning
hands after gardening or painting.
© 2011 Athena Goodlight
© 2011 Athena Goodlight
