r is a great medium to add to the compost bin, or it can be used as mulch. Did you can also make paper from lint? As well, dryer lint can be used to make great fire starters for camping or survival situations, use it as stuffing for pillows or crafts.
Bones from last nights dinner can be made into delicious and healthy bone broth or dried out and pulverized to be used as bone meal for the garden (make sure all the meat is off the bones). Once the bones have dried out, they can be thrown into the compost pile or put directly into garden for a fertilizer. This provides plants with phosphorus and calcium.
19. Laundry detergent bottle
You can easily re-use containers for your own homemade detergent, or fill the container full of sand and use it as a weight for a tarp or tent. As well, consider using empty laundry detergent bottles as a watering can for indoor plants or as a handy scoop. Just cut your clean detergent bottle diagonally across the middle, and you have a sturdy scoop that can be used for all sorts of things.
20. Wine corks
Cork is a natural product and can be turned into garden mulch, made into a natural bath mat, or a cup holder, and even carved into homemade stamps. Here are some other great ideas!
21. Metal coffee cans
These containers are also very versatile items. They can be used to hold kitchen scraps for the compost pile, hold random supplies, and even used to bake bread.
Because newspaper is made to absorb ink, it is great for absorbing all types of moisture. Crumbling newspaper and placing them in wet shoes can help dry them out faster. They are also great at cleaning glass and mirrors, can be used to make biomass, added to the compost, fashioned into paper pots for seedlings or the garden for lasagna gardening methods. As well, save your newspapers for packing material too.
23. Spice bottles
Reuse spice jars to hold new spices from garden, or fashion the spice jar into an essential oils diffuser. It can also be used as a flower bud vase.
24. Aluminum cans
Because aluminum cans come in a variety of sizes, get creative! For instance, tuna cans can be used to feed small livestock such as rabbits or guinea pigs. As well, they can be re-purposed and used to hold paints for small children, or with some decorative paper can be fashioned into a jewelry dish.
25. Deodorant containers
Plastic deodorant containers can easily be replenished with homemade deodorant. Heres a great recipe
Collect your candle stubs and you can easily melt them down into a new candle. In addition, you can use them to waterproof matches and fire starters.
27. Broken crayons
Dont throw your broken crayons away! Instead, take the wrapping off of each of them and store them away. You can melt them down and add them to a wax mold to make different shaped crayons, or use the melted wax to make homemade candles.
28. Cardboard toilet paper and paper towel rolls
These cardboard tubes have a myriad of uses. You can roll them in peanut butter and bird seed for a homemade bird feeder, use in homemade fire starters, added to the compost bin, start seeds in them, use them to store electrical cord, store plastic grocery bags, store string and ribbon, or wrap elastic hair bands around them for an easy storage solution.
29. Fruit and vegetable scraps
Peels and food scraps can be composted, fed to livestock or, in the case of fruits and vegetables, dehydrate them for a nutritious snack. Here are 5 edible fruit peels you should be eating. Most fruit peels are delicious when dehydrated- even citrus peels! As well, dont forget that you can make vinegar from apple peels. Heres the recipe.
30. Coffee grounds and tea bags
These make a great medium for your soil, or can be fed to earthworm in the compost pile. Coffee grounds add potassium and nitrogen back to the soil, so its good to spread it around in the garden. Sprinkle old coffee grounds onto a cleaning cloth and use them to scrub away stuck-on food from counters or dishes. You can also make a natural dye from coffee grounds. In addition, they also make a great body scrub for exfoliating the skin.
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