More frugal recycling ideas

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Frugal recycling

Frugal recycling simply means using disposable everyday items in another way, rather than just throwing them away. Lets look at some ideas:

• Use water used for boiling vegetables once cooled on your indoor plants. It is full of nutrients.

• Save plastic takeaway containers for storing frozen items or for heating things up in the microwave.

• Use old clothes as rags, especially good for washing cars and external house windows.

• Baby food jars are excellent storage for spices and seeds as well all those small stationary items such as drawing pins.

• Old sheets and curtains make excellent materials for making your own patchwork quilt for the winter.

• Get into the habit of using both sides of your printer paper.

• Old CD's are great as drinks coasters. They can also be turned into groovy mirrors when stuck next to each other onto board.

• Reuse vacuum bags. The only reason they tell you not to is to get you to buy more and boy are they expensive. Be frugal and spend a little time empting them out and reusing them.

• Use plastic packing peanuts as drainage at the bottom of your indoor flowerpots or outside container plants.

• Use the plastic bag inside your cereal carton to put your sandwiches in for your lunch.

• Fill old plastic drinks bottle with filtered tap water and store in your fridge as an alternative to bought bottled water.

• Cut down large plastic milk bottles to make drawer storage compartments for your smalls.

• Use plastic shopping bags for your waste bins.

• Use an old metal wheelbarrow as a planter or barbecue

• Turn outgrown jumpers into cardigans by cutting down the front and adding an attractive trim.

• Reuse washing up water on your garden.

• Tea and coffee grinds are good natural fertilizers for yourgarden.