Do you have look at containers after you finished whatever product you used inside of them and think what can I use this for? I do, I hate throwing nice containers away if I can use them for something. Especially for organization. With 4 children (one of them being a baby) I need to keep certain toys out of his little hands. I hate going out and spending money on containers when I have them underneath my nose! Recycle + Reuse what you have!
Just clean your containers out thoroughly!
After I caught him with a crayon in his mouth the other day, this is my new crayon storage solution:
What was once a pretzel container is now a crayon container.
My boys are big fans of Lego's now they like Hero Factory and Bionicles. Especially after just getting back from Legoland last week! All these small pieces, lots of them! I found a bunch bumped at the bottom of their toy box. So I fished them all out and made them a container for all these pieces to stay in when they are not playing with them.
What was once a bulk pretzel container is now a a Hero Factory / Bionicles container!
To make the labels I went to Yahoo clip art and copied them into word and adding the name of what is in the container. Then used clear packing tape to adhere it to the container.
What do you store your used containers in? Recycle and Reuse!
Great idea, Nicole! It's neat how finding a use for extra things so we're recycling and organizing our home!
ReplyDeleteI use baby wipe containers to store crayons, cars and other little things!
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What a fantastic idea! We have so many of these bins around our house. Crayons would be a great idea to put in one of the bins!
ReplyDeleteCute idea! I keep all mine too but sooo could use these labels!!
ReplyDeleteI just love those big Costco type containers..I could never throw them out! Too many uses..as you have done Nicole! Great job!
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Great Idea! I use shoe boxes right now and it really isn't working. Need more labels to help the kids clean up. Thanks for the suggestion.
ReplyDeleteDepending on the size, I use them in the bathroom, under the cabinet to organize toiletries or in my kitchen to condense down boxes of prepackaged snacks
ReplyDeletewhat a great repurposing idea!
ReplyDeleteI love reusing things. I feel less wasteful. Those are neat ideas.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas :O) we always try to reuse our containers.
ReplyDeleteMore and more people are finding ways to to contribute their part of three R's
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. they offer amazing variety of used containers and contribute to saving the environment a lot.. I use them my self .. go Green...
hey that was a nice!! i loved it ..thanks
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