Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
How can I use up stale bread?
Some weeks, we get through a loaf of bread in about a minute and a half and other times, we have a couple of slices of toast the day we get the loaf and the rest just sits there forlornly as we fill up with other carbohydrates instead. This week is somewhere inbetween and […]
17 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items by louisa
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … anti-perspirant bottles?
We flipped to roll-on ones from aerosol anti-perspirants for environment reasons - both big, out-there environment (the aerosol bit) and little, in-here environment (the spray quickly made the bathroom unpleasant as it deodorised your lungs) - but now we’re left with lots of roll-on bottles instead.
I suspect the bottle and the ball are different types […]
9 Comments » - Posted in bathroom, items, packaging by louisa
Friday, May 26th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … a big cardboard tube and some plastic?
Friday is usually dilemma-day but anyway…
A suggestion from my dad:
Daughter,
The new bathroom carpet arrived, wrapped around a big cardboard tube and covered in a sheet of plastic. As soon as I saw it, I thought “how can I recycle this?” : )
The tube is about 6ft long and about 4″ in diameter. The […]
5 Comments » - Posted in household, items, packaging by louisa
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … egg boxes?
Turning over our compost bin is a ineffective nightmare. It involves precariously balancing on a metre-high brick wall and digging down, now below foot level, into the flimsy bin without using the sides of it for leverage in any way (because of the aforementioned flimsiness). Needless to say, it doesn’t get turned that […]
9 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … out of date flour?
When I left my last but one job, I was given a juicer as a leaving present. Since I abhor fruit in its many evil forms, we swapped the fancy be-tapped blender for a breadmaking machine since we love bread and thought it would be a darnsight more useful.
Oh, we had such good intentions. […]
