Archive for September, 2006
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … cake packaging?
As previous posts may have indicated, I have rather a sweet tooth and from time to time, treat myself with cake or biscuit related products.
When we buy them, we don’t fool around and usually get full sized cakes or at least loaf-shaped ones but sometimes we get fiddly, little individual ones like this pack of […]
9 Comments » - Posted in food and the like, items, kitchen, packaging by louisa
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … old ties?
Continuing on from the tidying “rampage” mentioned earlier in the week, I’ve been sorting through our old clothes in the bedroom.
In addition to the clothes we wear regularly, we have a couple of boxes of old clothes on the top of the wardrobe. These are the clothes that we will wear again just as […]
14 Comments » - Posted in clothes and fabric, items by louisa
Monday, September 18th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … rusty screws, nails and assorted bits?
Completely out of character, I went on a bit of a tidying rampage at the weekend. Well, I sorted out some boxes in the spare room and the storage chest in the living room - that’s a rampage for me.
Amongst the random bits of paper (recycled/composted) and unnecessary household objects like two phones even […]
9 Comments » - Posted in household, items by louisa
Friday, September 15th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … broken crockery?
We have a stone floor in the kitchen; a very hard, very cold, stone floor. In the summer, when it’s hot, it’s fantastic but in the winter, it becomes a game how we can step on it the least (I’ve cooked dinner kneeling on a stool on more than one occasion).
As much as we […]
11 Comments » - Posted in household, items, kitchen by louisa
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
How can I reuse or recycle … water cooler bottles?
I know most water cooler bottles already go back to the supplier for reuse or recycling (she says, hopefully) but what about ideas for those ones that get lost along the way?
John rescued one from a skip near his work the other day and brought it home thinking we could use it as a cloche […]
