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Just saw a post from Mother Earth News on facebook about making pillows out of old t shirts. Tuck the sleeves and neck inside before sewing up, then stuff through the bottom.
Regular plain toothpaste is basically a polishing compound, you can use it polish anything really like a CD with scratch in it. Another use for it that is going to give you mixed results is polishing the headlight covers on your car if they have oxidized.
I save glass jars for food storage. I even store other things, like buttons, in glass peanut butter jars. I have vintage canning jars that I use for storing dried beans and sugar.
Old tees, especially white ones, make good rags. I even use the sleeves, torn off the shirt and flattened, to cut small eyeglass wiper rags.
Old vases or cream pitchers make good holders for pens and pencils.
Old saucers make good soap dishes, holders for rings, or a place to put a scouring pad. I use an old saucer by my bed as a coaster for my water glass.
I use an old china cabinet to display family photos.
I put paper clips in an old ashtray on my desk.
Old stemmed "schooners" can hold glass marbles, and mascara, tweezers, eyebrow pencil,etc. Just stand them in the marbles.
I have only one of those glass coaster looking gadgets that you place under the legs of sofas so they don't mark the rug - I use it to put straight pins in, next to my sewing machine, removed while I am sewing.
Using car wax on bathroom tiles (I have not tried this on the sides of my tub) protects grout and tiles from splashes. I would not use this on the bottom of the tub, 'cause you'll slip all over, maybe kill yourself, but I'll bet on the sides it would really help remove a ring.
I accumulate way too many old t-shirts for the rag adaptation. But I imagine a more creative type would find all sorts of uses of the cloth if reduced to smaller sizes.
I accumulate way too many old t-shirts for the rag adaptation. But I imagine a more creative type would find all sorts of uses of the cloth if reduced to smaller sizes.
Sure, but I'll bet the 100% cotton shirts are by far the best and they don't wear as well as the half poly.
I think tooth paste is way to expensive to use as a cleaner. Worn out cotton T shirts make the best cleaning and dusting rags.
That assumes one cleans and dusts. Maybe they should be put somewhere for the cleaners and dusters of society to pick them up. Seems odd that cotton t-shirts can't be bleached and put in the mix for paper.
Sounds like a lot of things that Grand Pa and Grand Ma did back in the day to reuse things are coming back in to vogue. Some of my favorites are the "Dutch Tupperware" basically old plastic butter, and cool whip containers used for food storage, my dad had a bunch of old Coleman lantern gas cans that he cut the top off of and use for storing nuts and bolts...coffee cans too. When we out grew, or some how destroyed our whitey tighities they would be recommissioned as cleaning rags. My grand ma makes rugs on her loom with old jeans that she cuts up into strips.
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