Category Archives: Recycling

09
Aug

Anonymous

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I have a lot of soap pieces that I keep during the year. I render them down in an old pot, when it’s a bit cooler add petals from your garden, even pieces of orange peel,apple peel, lavender flowers,even use your old perfume. Use cookie cutters [$2 shop] stand on waxed paper, and tip the […]

09
Aug

O.R.

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Use worn toothbrushes as a scrubbing brush in those hard to get at places like between ceramic tiles, taps, etc.

09
Aug

Tea bags

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• Used tea leaves make excellent fertiliser for pot plants. – O.R. • Use used tea leaves to make a window cleaner. Simple pour boiling water on the discarded tea leaves/bags, leave for an hour, then use. – O.R. • I save my tea bags and use them to clean my eye glasses. The bags […]

09
Aug

Plastic ice cream containers

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• 2lt ones are great for cutting up and making into flash cards for little ones. Cut down the side panels into the size you want then right on them with permanent markers , words, numbers, letters etc. Hole punch through the corner and thread onto an old key ring. Great for in the car. […]

09
Aug

Angela Allan

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At Christmas time I always cut circles out of plastic milk bottles and use them as gift tags. They look like bubbles and if you add a little glitter and hole punch and thread ribbon through they are fab! Use a permanent marker for the name.

09
Aug

Reader, Hamilton.

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Rather than buy packing, cut the tops off two plastic soft drink bottles, one slightly larger than the other. Insert the items to be posted inside one of the containers and then push the two containers together to form a cylinder. It’s then ready to wrap and post.

09
Aug

Reader, Awanui.

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Instead of throwing out your old phone book, place it on the kitchen bench for hot pots. Tear out the pages as required to wrap small items for the rubbish and to use under paper towels when draining fried food.