Toilet-Paper Rolls, Paper-Towel Rolls and Wrapping Paper Rolls... Waste, Recycle or Reuse?
Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consider what it can be used for? Never thought of that? Or you already reuse them? Although our society urges people not to throw out but recycle and reuse as many common household items as possible, we still produce too much trash!
I have listed a great deal of tips and links for different ways paper rolls can be reused in household, for gardening, kids crafts, etc. Hope you will find some new ways you can save some money and be nature friendly!
New addition: Crafty Christmas with paper rolls!
There Are So Many Ways to Reuse Paper Rolls!!!
What's here so far....(adding all the time!)
- Question Before We Start!
- Household Tips
- Gardening Tips
- Kiddy Craft Tips
- Christmas Crafts
- Paper roll ornaments
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Wear it!
- Donate for New Generation of Genius!
- More crafty ideas
- More tips about reusing different common items
- Go Green & Thrifty! Follow my blog!
- Reusing, recycling or wasting?
- Even More Ideas - Shared by Squidoo Members!
- Let's Start with Simple and Unexpensive Things!
Question Before We Start!
Household Tips
Extend Vacuum Cleaner Reach
Clever use of empty wrapping paper tube!
Can't reach that cobweb on the ceiling with your regular vacuum cleaner
attachment? Try using a long, empty wrapping paper tube to extend the reach. You can even crush the end of the paper tube to create a crevice tool. Use duct tape to make the connection airtight.Keep Electrical Cords Tangle-Free
Use toilet paper tubes to stop tripping on cords lying around the house!
Keep computer and appliance cords tangle-free. Fanfold the cord and pass it through a toilet paper tube before plugging in. You can also use the tubes to store extension cords when they're not in use. Paper towel tubes will also work. Just cut them in half before using them to hold the cords.Don't Throw It Out: Recycle, Renew and Reuse to Make Things Last
Don't Throw It Out: Recycle, Renew and Reuse to Make Things Last
Amazon Price: $13.46 (as of 11/19/2009)
What should you recycle, renew, and reuse? Practically everything! Written in a cozy style, it covers every room in the house as well as outdoor sports and hobbies, lawn and garden, the home workshop and motor vehicles of all sorts.
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Use As Kindling And Logs
Fire up those paper tubes!
Turn toilet paper and paper towel tubes into kindling and logs for your fireplace. For fire starter, use scissors to cut the cardboard into 1/8-inch (3-millimeter) strips. Keep the strips in a bin near the fireplace so they'll be handy to use next time you make a fire. To make logs, tape over one end of the tube and pack shredded newspaper inside. Then tape the other end. The tighter you pack the newspaper, the longer your log will burn.Make Boot Trees
Simple trick with cardboard mailing tubes
from flopping over and developing ugly creases in the closet, insert cardboard mailing tubes into them to help them hold their shape.Protect Important Documents
Keep documents tidy with paper towel tubes!
, roll them tightly and insert them in paper towel tubes. This prevents creases and keeps the documents clean and dry.Uncommon Uses for Common Household Products
Uncommon Uses for Common Household Products
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Save money and extend the usefulness of virtually everything you own! This helpful book will show you hundreds of new ways to put everyday items to work in your home, garden and garage. Discover tricks for quick, easy fixes that you can do yourself instead of calling in an expensive repairman. Learn the suprising but practical uses for apples, banana peels, hair dryers, basting syringes, pantyhose, twist ties, shoulder pads, cardboard tubes, and even your dishwasher.
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Store Knitting Needles
Simple use for cardboard tube
To keep your knitting needles from bending and breaking, try this: Use a long cardboard tube from kitchen foil or plastic wrap. Cover one end with cellophane tape. Pinch the other end closed and secure it tightly with tape. Slide the needles in through the tape on the taped end. The tape will hold them in place for secure, organized storage.Store String
Strings wrapped around toilet paper tube
Nothing is more useless and frustrating than tangled string. To keep your string ready to use, cut a notch into each end of a toilet paper tube. Secure one end of the string in one notch, wrap the string tightly around the tube, and then secure the other end in the other notch.Clean House Clean Planet
Clean House Clean Planet
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 11/19/2009)
The cool thing about the book is that it gives detailed recipes for exactly what proportions of these main ingredients (plus a few others) work best to clean each different thing in your house, and it goes into some detail about what spray and squirt bottles work best, too.
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Use Empty Toilet Paper Rolls as Hair Rollers
This actualy works!
. If you have shoulder length or longer hair, empty toilet paper rolls work perfectly. Use toilet paper rolls to roll you dry hair. You can use bobbie pins, or clips to hold in place. Leave it up for about an hour. When you unroll it, you'll have fuller, smoother, flowing hair, with soft curls at the bottom.Organizing Hair Bands
Simple organizing tip with used paper roll
Use a cardboard toilet paper tube to organize elastic hair bandsIt never fails. You buy a bunch of elastic hair bands and they somehow disappear. Instead of losing them and then finding them all over the place, wrap them around a cardboard toilet paper tube. They will stay in one place and won't get stretched out.
Store Fabric Scraps
Simple storage solution with cardboard tube
Roll up leftover fabric scraps tightly and insert them inside a cardboard tube from your bathroom or kitchen. For easy identification, tape or staple a sample of the fabric to the outside of the tube.
Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue, 2-Ply Sheets, 500-Sheet Rolls (Pack of 48)
Amazon Price: $46.98 (as of 11/19/2009)
Charmin Bathroom Tissue Plus a Touch of Lotion with Aloe, 8 Giant Rolls (Pack of 5)
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Kleenex Cottonelle Aloe & E Double Toilet Paper, 260-Sheet Double Rolls, 12-Count Packs (Pack of 4)
Amazon Price: $42.45 (as of 11/19/2009)
Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bathroom Tissue, 1-Ply, Unscented, Case Pack, Five 4 Roll Packs, 800 Sheets Each (20 Rolls)
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Kleenex Cottonelle Double Roll, 308 Sheets, 24 Packs (Pack of 2)
Amazon Price: $35.60 (as of 11/19/2009)
Organize Underwear
Toilet paper rolls help from damage
when traveling in a car, bus, boat or train.Instead of folding your underwear and having it get lost inside your luggage
, put it inside a cardboard toilet paper tube. Obviously you'll need more then one tube to do this, but it works. The underwear stays in one place and if you have to open your luggage in front of other people, your underwear won't be exposed for the world to see.Organize Socks and Pantyhose
Put baby socks into toilet paper tubes! Two pairs in each!
. Fold pantyhose to about palm-sized, and stuff it into the core. Each pantyhose should fit nicely into one core, without much of it dangling out. And when you travel, just pop as many filled cores as needed in the luggage, and don't worry about tearing the pantyhoses accidentally!Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose
And Hundreds of Offbeat Uses for Brand-Name Products
Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose: And Hundreds of Offbeat Uses for Brand-Name Products
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Over 30 brand name products are profiled in a quirky title which tells how to use a variety of common household agents to perform unusual tasks. From repulsing deer with Ivory soap to salt to repel fleas, this packs in some real surprises.
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Keep linens crease-free
Use long wrapping paper tubes!
Wrap tablecloths and napkins around cardboard tubes after laundering to avoid the creases they would get if they were folded. Use long tubes for tablecloths and paper towel or toilet paper tubes for napkins. To guard against stains, cover the tubes with plastic wrap first.Keep pants crease-free
Put paper towel tube on the rack
you haven't worn in a while, only to find an ugly crease at the fold site from the hanger rack. It won't happen again if you cut a paper towel tube lengthwise, fold it in half horizontally, and place it over the rack before you hang up your pants. Before hanging pants, tape the sides of the cardboard together at the bottom to keep it from slipping.Keep Christmas lights tidy
Wrap them around cardboard tube!
Spending more time untangling your Christmas lights than it takes to put them up? Make yuletide prep easier by wrapping your lights around a cardboard tube. Secure them with masking tape. Put small strands of lights or garlands inside cardboard tubes, and seal the ends of the tubes with masking tape.Protect fluorescent lights
Use wrapping paper tubes for this!
Keep fluorescent light tubes from breaking before you use them. They will fit neatly into long cardboard tubes sealed with tape at one end.
The Family Handyman: Helpful Hints : Quick & Easy Solutions / Time-Saving Tips / Tricks of the Trade (Family Handyman)
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Clear, well-organized, well-indexed, filled with useful illustrations and diagrams, this is a great book for anyone interested in learning about how to maintain their home, keep appliances running, and fix many things they might never have imagined they could. You will recoup the cost of this book the first time you don't have to call in a pro for a simple home repair!
Organize Garbage Bags
Easy storage solution for garbadge bags!
.Many people will keep a spare garbage bag
somewhere near their bathroom garbage can or some other small garbage can so when the bag in the can is full it can immediately be replaced. Instead of having the bag just lying there on the floor, stuff it inside the cardboard toilet paper tube. Then take the tube and tape it to the back of the garbage can where it won't be visible.Store Wax Candle Tapers
Protect them inside paper tubes
broken, chipped, and soiled. Instead, wrap your wax candle tapers in tissue paper. Then slide them into a recycled toilet paper or a paper towel cardboard tube. Now your tapers will be protected in between uses.
Bounty Paper Towels, White, Regular Roll (Pack of 30)
Amazon Price: $37.25 (as of 11/19/2009)
Scott Paper Towels, White Regular Roll, Twelve 60-Sheet Rolls (Pack of 2)
Amazon Price: $35.99 (as of 11/19/2009)
Kleenex Viva Towels, Regular Roll, Case Pack, Four 8 Roll Packs (32 Rolls)
Amazon Price: $45.00 (as of 11/19/2009)
Seventh Generation Paper Towels, Natural, 2-Ply Sheets (Pack of 30)
Amazon Price: $53.43 (as of 11/19/2009)
Bounty® White 11x11 Perforated Paper Roll Towels, 60/Roll, 15 Rolls/Pack
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 11/19/2009)
Gardening Tips
Start seedlings
Save some money - use paper rolls!
Don't go to the garden supply store to buy biodegradable starting pots for seedlings. Just use the cardboard tubes from paper towels and toilet paper. Use scissors to cut each toilet paper tube into two pots, or each paper towel tube into four. Fill a tray with the cut cylinders packed against each other so they won't tip when you water the seedlings. This will also prevent them from drying out too quickly. Now fill each pot with seed-starting mix, gently pack it down, and sow your seeds. When you plant the seedlings, make sure to break down the side of the roll and make sure all the cardboard is completely buried. Step-by-step Guide to use paper rolls for seedlingsMake a plant guard
Protect young tree with cardboard mailing tube
Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener
Amazon Price: (as of 11/19/2009)
s integrated pest management becomes more important, for instance, the methods and products that have been known to organic gardeners for decades are now being investigated and appreciated by the mainstream. Composting, xeriscaping, permaculture, environment--all these and 400 or so more have complete entries. A useful introduction explains how best to use the book and suggests core sections for initial reading.
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Make a fly and pest strip
Make a homemade pest strip from paper roll tube
. Just cover an empty paper towel or toilet paper roll with transparent tape, sticky side out, and hang where needed.Make a sheath
Protect yourself from cutting with paper rolls
. Use toilet paper rolls for smaller cutlery.1000 Gardening Questions and Answers
The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers: Based on the New York Times Column "Garden Q & A."
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/19/2009)
Hundreds of line drawings illustrate the book, providing botanical identification and demonstrating how-to gardening techniques. In addition, sidebars throughout supply supplemental information--"Dos and Don'ts of Deadheading," "Annuals that Beat the Heat," "To Prune or Not to Prune: The Clematis Question," "Air Layering," "Windowsill Bonsai"--plus quirky facts, trivia, lore, and myth. It's big, it's got heft, it's filled to the brim with information. And it's so lively, it reads like a novel--and belongs on every gardener's potting bench and bedside table.
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Kiddy Craft Tips
Make a kazoo
With paper towel tube
Got a bunch of bored kids driving you crazy on a rainy day? Cut three small holes in the middle of a paper towel tube. Then cover one end of the tube with wax paper secured with a strong rubber band. Now hum into the other end, while using your fingers to plug one, two, or all three holes to vary the pitch. Make one for each kid. They may still drive you crazy, but they'll have a ball doing it!Instant megaphone
Simple yet effective reusing tip!
to amplify your voice.Paper Tube Maracas
. Then, wrap the entire tube with construction paper or white drawing paper, gluing it to the tube so that it's secure. You can then let your child decorate the paper with paint or markers so that it's fun and colorful. Make a whole bunch so that you can have a percussion section for your kitchen band!Look What You Can Make With Tubes
Look What You Can Make With Tubes (Craft)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Cardboard tubes are transformed into a vast array of toys, games, decorations and gifts.
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Make a hamster toy
Pets love playing with paper rolls!
Place a couple of paper towel or toilet paper tubes in the hamster (or gerbil) cage. The little critters will love running and walking through them, and they like chewing on the cardboard too. When the tubes start looking ragged, just replace them with fresh ones.Preserve kids' artwork
Simply roll it and put inside paper tube!
Make Halloween Treats!
Halloween reuse idea for toilet paper rolls
Build a toy log cabin
Different paper rolls make this even more interesting
Look What You Can Make With Newspapers, Magazines, and Greeting Cards
Look What You Can Make With Newspapers, Magazines, and Greeting Cards (Craft)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Newspapers uses papier-m ch techniques, decoupage, and cutting skills to make banks, clothed dolls, boxes, signs and cards, mobiles, etc. A switch-plate cover and a marble maze game are two of the more unusual ideas. Bottles, which requires potentially dangerous cutting procedures, only gives a safety warning in the introduction: "If you are having trouble cutting a container, ask for adult help." No warnings appear with individual projects, which combine plastic-container recyclables with paper, ribbon, fabric, buttons, and beads to make such items as bracelets, bookends, a desk aquarium, puppets, a playing-card holder, and decorative containers galore.
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Making envelopes
Unique envelope from common paper tube
Look What You Can Make With Paper Plates (Craft)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Look What You Can Make With Egg Cartons (Craft)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Look What You Can Make With Plastic Bottles and Tubs (Craft)
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Look What You Can Make With Paper Bags (Craft)
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Look What You Can Make With Boxes: Over Ninety Pictured Crafts and Dozens of Other Ideas
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
Make a castle...
with cardboard boxes and rolls
...using paper rolls and all sort of cardboard boxes. It will bring a lots of joy to kids. If kids are old enough they can even build it with you! Instructions are HERE!Crafter's Desk Organizer
Made of tissue box and paper rolls
. Take the tissue box and snip the corners diagonally on the top,fold down the flaps to the inside and glue-this reinforces the box.Then take the tubes and cut them off so they are the same height as the box. Hot-glue (or use tacky-glue) in rows in the box (it takes about 15 toilet paper tubes). If you use a tissue box with a floral or decorator design it's very pretty. Then store all your markers,pens,glue sticks,scissors,hole punchers etc.on end in the tubes, within reach on your craftbench!
Paper roll characters
- Arthur
- Arthur Arthur is a simple color, cut and paste paper craft that uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional effect.%uFFFD
- Astronaut Craft
- Astronaut toilet paper roll craft.
- Athena Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Free printable instructions and templates for making a greek mythology toilet paper roll craft.
- Baker or Chef Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- free printable templates and instructions for a Baker or Chef Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Batman
- Batman toilet paper roll craft.
- Maggie's Ferocious Beast Craft
- free printable templates and instructions for a maggie and the ferocious beast toilet paper roll craft.
- Sesame Street's Bert Craft
- printable template for a Bert toilet paper roll craft.
- Betty Boop
- Betty Boop Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Big Bird
- Big Bird Craft Big Bird is a simple color, cut and paste paper craft that uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional effect
- Blossom
- Blossom Powerpuff Girls Craft
I've had a whole bunch of requests for Powerpuff girls so have put Blossom together... sorry for the wait everyone! - British Bobby TP Roll Craft
- British bobby toilet paper roll craft.
- DLTK's Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tails Craft
- Little Boy Craft I receive a fair number of requests for crafts for birthday celebrations.
Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts, The (Jumbo Books)
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The Complete Book of Arts & Crafts (The Complete Book Series)
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 11/19/2009)
Kids Create!: Art & Craft Experiences for 3- To 9-Year-Olds (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
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The Little Hands Art Book (Williamson Little Hands Series)
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- Farmer Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Cain and Abel toilet paper roll craft.
- Clown Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- free printable templates for making a toilet paper roll circus clown craft. Suitable for preschool, kindergarten and early grade school kids.
- Handyman Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Handyman/Builder toilet paper roll craft.
- Cookie Monster
- Cookie Monster Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Cowboy
- Cowboy toilet paper roll craft.
- Cub Scout
- Cub scout toilet paper roll craft.
- Curious George
- printable template for a Curious George toilet paper roll craft.
- Cyclops Craft
- Free printable instructions and templates for making a cyclops toilet paper roll craft.
Paper roll animals
- Bald Eagle Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Bald eagle toilet paper roll craft.
- Bat TP Roll Craft
- free printable templates and instructions for an Australian Bat TP Roll Craft.
- Bear TP Roll Craft
- This is a cute three dimensional bear craft that is fun for young children to make and to play with.
- Canadian Beaver Craft
- This is a simple three dimensional beaver craft that is fun for kids to make and play with.
- Blue's Clues Craft
- Blue's Clue's toilet paper roll craft.
- Bumblebee Craft for Kids
- Bumblebee Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Bull Farm Animal Craft for Kids
- bull toilet paper roll craft.
- Valentine's Bee Craft
- printable template and instructions for creating a Valentine's Day toilet paper roll bumble bee craft.
- Easter Bunny Craft
- printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
- Easter Bunny Craft
- printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
- Butterfly Craft
- The butterfly looks sort of like a monarch butterfly (except a bit more cheerful than the real deal).
- Butterfly Flier Craft Instructions and Templates
- Butterfly Flier Craft Instructions and Templates
Recycled Crafts Box
Amazon Price: $8.76 (as of 11/19/2009)
Ecoart!: Earth-Friendly Art and Craft Experiences for 3-To 9-Year-Olds (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 11/19/2009)
Paper Tube Zoo
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How to Make Puppets With Children
Amazon Price: $8.79 (as of 11/19/2009)
Hand Puppets: How to Make and Use Them (Dover Craft Books)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/19/2009)
- Cat Craft for Kids
- Cat toilet paper roll craft.
- Toilet Paper Roll Caterpillar
- Free printable instructions and photographs for making a caterpillar craft.
- Chameleon TP Roll Craft
- Free printable templates for a chameleon tp roll craft for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
- Cheetah TP Roll Craft
- Cheetah Toilet Paper Craft
- Cheetah Cub Craft
- Leopard toilet paper roll craft.
- Easter Chick Craft
- printable craft templates for preschool and kindergarten kids Easter crafts.
- Chick Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Printable template and instructions for a chick tp roll craft.
- Cow Farm Animal Craft for Kids
- Cow toilet paper roll craft.
- Cow TP Roll Craft
- This is a cute three dimensional cow craft that is fun for young children to make and to play with.
- Cowardly Lion Craft
- Materials you will need are a toilet paper roll, printer, paper (I prefer construction paper or another heavier paper), scissors, glue, raffia or string, and something to colour with.
- Crocodile Craft for Kids
- Crocodile toilet paper roll craft.
Christmas Crafts
- Abel the Shepherd Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- Free printable templates and instructions for an Abel the shepherd toilet paper roll craft.
- Christmas Angel
- This adorable angel is made with a toilet paper tube, a printer and a little imagination
- TP Roll Advent Calendar
- step by step instructions and photo for making an advent calendar for Christmas.
- Nutcracker Toilet Paper Roll Craft
- printable template for a nutcracker craft suitable for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
- Jesus Craft
- Jesus toilet paper roll craft.
- TP Roll Snowman Craft
- fun children's crafts for all occassions including animal and holiday projects -- Christmas and Valentine's day. Specializing in printable templates for toilet paper tube crafts. Suitable for ages 3 to 7... preschool and kindergarten children tend to have the most fun.
- TP Drum Ornament Christmas Craft
- Use these free directions to create a neat drum ornament using a toilet tisse roll. A great Christmas tree ornament or gift.
- Elf Toilet Paper Roll Roll Craft
- printable template for a Christmas elf toilet paper roll craft.
- Christmas Angel Tree Topper
- Victoria from New mexico explains how to make an angel using items you might normally recycle.
- New Year Party Popper - Chapter 11: Seasons and Celebrations
- This craft is featured in chapter 11 of the About.com Guide to Family Crafts book.
- Recycled Angel Craft - Free Craft Project
- Instructions to make an Angel using a Toilet tissue roll.
- TP Reindeer Ornament
- Use these directions to create a fun reindeer ornament using a toilet tissue roll, shared by Carolyne.
Make English crackers
Spirit of holidays with simple paper roll
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More crafty ideas
- Mexican Bean Bracelets
- directions for children to make a mexican bean bracelet craft.
- Camouflage Binoculars Craft
- The daddy in our house spends far too much time dressing Barbies and tidying up the doll house for his daughters... he really enjoyed playing with his binoculars *grin*.
- Mexican Bird Rattle
- In Mexico, paper mache rattles are popular
More tips about reusing different common items
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How to Reuse Paper Bags
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What do you do with paper bags? Toss them into garbage? Recycle? Reuse? Renew? The obvious first option is to reuse them for your groceries and other goods. They likely won't hold up for as many reuses as the plastic bags, but remember even one reus...
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Extraordinary Uses For Ordinary Things
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Fun and Ingenious Ways of Reusing
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What is your choice when this question is asked?
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- aaron aaron Nov 19, 2009 @ 2:53 am
- Its the small things that count. If everyone would just do these small contributions of helping in greening our planet, then our kids will be able to live in a better world than yesterday.
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- lakshyaa lakshyaa Nov 16, 2009 @ 1:50 am
- Amazing lens! I never knew paper rolls could be reused in so many ways!
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- LaraineRose LaraineRose Nov 13, 2009 @ 2:14 am
- I never knew there were so many uses for paper rolls! While babysitting my twin nieces we made a puppet theatre out of a cardboard box, decorated and all of the puppets were created from paper rolls. They spent hours 'pretending' with those puppets but the best time we had was making them! A great lens. Thank you also for coming a blessing my Green lens.
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- arncyn arncyn Nov 12, 2009 @ 11:28 am
- I love this lens! I didn't know there could be so much use for them. The only thing I've been using toilet paper rolls for (so far) is organizing my hair bands. My kitty likes playing with them too so I craft toys for him using the cardboard. (:
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- World-Wanderer World-Wanderer Nov 7, 2009 @ 4:50 am
- I have a great Use for them. Fire starting. Fill 75% of it with the flaky peely bits of birch bark, or birch bark scrapings (outer bark only). Then take an ember, a smouldering fungus or bit of char cloth you have ignited using a spark, put this in the empty end and push against the bark (don't burn yourself). Then blow onto the ember. Try and hold the toilet tube using something else or it gets very hot and don't pack the tube too tightly. Keep blowing, even putting your mouth over the end and after a minute or so it will burst into flame :D
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- johnfn johnfn Nov 5, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
- interesting lens!
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- etan etan Nov 5, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
- umm, that was an amazing answer!
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- happynutritionist happynutritionist Oct 29, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
- So happy to have found this...delightful! And I thought I was doing good blogging about using old paper towel rolls to stuff plastic vegetable bags in for future use, never gave thought to so many of these uses. ~claudia
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- PirateMummy PirateMummy Oct 28, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
- Awesome!!! I especially like the seed-raising idea. I've been patiently rolling newspaper cups each spring - what a pain. Now i'll just save loo rolls all year. You don't know how much time you've just saved me!
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- FantasyDesigns FantasyDesigns Oct 28, 2009 @ 8:22 am
- Great tips! I usually just give the paper towel rolls to one of the kids and that's the end of it. :)
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"We used to spread peanut butter all over it, roll it in birdseed, put a string through the hole and hang from the tree for the birds.".... by KAB
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"...they are great for puppy treats. Fold over one end pop in a few dog biscuits then fold over the open end to close it and give to your puppy. They have fun trying to get the treat out and it keeps them out from under your feet when you're trying to hang out washing or sweep the floor!".... by Lou16
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