Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle … tissue boxes?

By: J

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:38:17 +0000

I keep my tea light candles in them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:53 +0000

donate them to a school to use for arts and crafts. we make buses and cars and guitars and all kinds of other thinsg out of cardboard!

By: claire

claire — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:15:36 +0000

When I was keeping hedgehogs they really enjoyed sleeping in discarded tissue boxes.

By: sara

sara — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:27:30 +0000

you can put rubber bands around it and glue a paper towel roll to one end and have a tissue box guitar!

By: carrie

carrie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:47:27 +0000

cut the top off and use for filing recipes, greeting cards, etc

By: kaylyn

kaylyn — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:26:11 +0000

i use the cardboard to make smaller gift boxes when birthdays or holidays roll around. with a little bit of glue and paint or what have you the results are quite often very cute.
i’ve also found that people usually really, really appreciate the little extra effort in making the gift container by hand… especially if the gift itself is on the smaller side.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:13:38 +0000

I take the smaller, tall, square-ish ones, and a roll of recycled toilet paper, then cut out the cardboard roll, open up the seam of the box, and stick the roll inside and pull the toilet paper through the middle and out of the hole, then seal the box back up! It can be re-used over and over, plus recycled paper tissue is expensive, so it saves a bunch of money!

By: trisha

trisha — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:35:03 +0000

I use mine for all sorts of things. I place my scrapbook embellishments in them, I also store string and cord in them like a string dispenser. I use them for my seedlings then plant the whole box. I am also collecting some for my kids as large lego. so they can build cubby houses and forts out of the tissue box bricks.

By: Delusion

Delusion — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:29:20 +0000

I have a mass of pencil crayons without boxes so they all go in my old tissue box. Large hole means easy to get them out and keeps them safe :)

By: Recycleholic

Recycleholic — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:54:47 +0000

I remove the plastic and give them to my 1 1/2 year old daughter to play with. She loves putting toys in there.

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:12:21 +0000

Makes a great car trash can. The square ones with the plastic slit inside oval work well because it can roll around on the floor and not spill it’s contents. Throw the whole thing out when it’s full.

By: heartinacircle

heartinacircle — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:48:58 +0000

i rip the plastic off and use them as mini trash cans. as long as you don’t put wet things in there, it’ll last a long time. plus, you don’t have to line it with a bag, which cuts down on waste as well. if you use it in conjunction with the change-collection idea, you could have a really fancy pants-pocket dumping station going.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:36:05 +0000

Place on your dresser to collect loose change

Place a larger one in your kitchen to collect plastic bags-makes a great dispenser