Fri 1 Sep 2006
We tend to buy 1kg or 2kg nets of onions - plastic nets, with 1cmx1cm ish holes - but can’t think what to do with them once we’ve finished the pack. The same goes for the rare occasions when we buy big packs of oranges or lemons.
We use smaller nets - the type that garlic comes in at the supermarket - to make little bird feeders to hang in trees but the nuts and seeds mix we use falls out of the bigger holes in the onion/orange/lemon nets.
Any suggestions how we can use them again?
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September 7th, 2006 at 3:47 am
Hi,
I know these nets are great for making dish scrubbies, you just bunch them all up and srub away… they can also be used for bagging up bath toys or beach toys and then just washing them with a hose or in the sink.
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dancing girl
September 19th, 2006 at 10:24 am
I have used them for protecting strawberries from hungry birds. Just prop them up on short sticks.
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rlwlkly
December 5th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
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Amanda Kerik
December 30th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Depending on the size of the hole you cut, these are great in the shower to hold bits and pieces that tend to disappear.
I double them up and stretch them over sponges for scrubbing (dishes or skin)
You can probably use them in the wash for delicates, depending on the quality.
Use them as a giant sieve - to allow liquids to drip out of mini composts (if you’re into that kind of thing)
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Heather
February 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 am
I use the fine net ones (from garlic) for beach combing, as it holds tiny shells…and then you just rinse the whole bag under water to get rid of sand.
The larger orange net bags I use under the sink to stuff plastic bags in.
Orange net bags are also handy when camping for all sorts of things…. collecting stuff, organizing, and as recyclabling bags.
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Leah
February 4th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
At the nature center we tape them to pieces of cardboard, then use it to make rubbings with paper and a crayon. Looks just like snake skin!
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renee
February 9th, 2008 at 8:15 am
You can make groovy shopping bags out of the huge orange bags. I also sew/weave wool through them to make warm winter cushions and funky handbags.
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Desi
March 19th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Mushroom collectors use them so that the spores drop back onto the ground and reseed.
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ron
April 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I fill them up with the stuff you get out of the vacum cleaner and the fluff collected in the tumble drier and hang it up for the birds to use as nesting material
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Gulia
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 am
Wrap couple of them around the head of a sunflower, when it developed seeds, so birds don’t get them.
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