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Category: upcycling
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Nov 18, 2024 by HTV9 This is more experimental than anything else. It’s three chopsticks rubber-banded together, with one of those knit dustrags I made kind of wadded at the top and attached to it with a hair tie. Does it dust more easily and effectively than just the dustrag itself? Only time will tell.…
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Jun 4, 2024 by HTV9 The other day my husband tripped on all the cords coming out of this octopus type multi-charger thing. Not for the first time. Since that’s a safety hazard I decided enough was enough. Here’s what I did: 1. Grabbed a pair of scissors and a small serrated blade knife 2.…
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May 1, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling Here’s a T-shirt that is super worn out. There are a bunch of tutorials online for making sewn T-shirt shopping bags to replace plastic/paper ones, so I initially thought I’d try that. Then I realized due to no sewing machine that would take about five hours per bag,…
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Feb 13, 2024 by HTV9 An additional use for a rinsed out, dried pudding cup © http://www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024 lifehacks spoonie upcycling
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Feb 13, 2024 by HTV9 This is a simple upcycle: I rinsed out an applesauce cup and pudding cup, and dried them. Now they are ready to use as pill holders instead of keeping pills directly on a bedside table. © http://www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024
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Feb 13, 2024 by HTV9 Plastic stuff builds up around here, as do essential oils. So here’s a DIY for making an air freshener out of it. All the materials required are shown aside from the bottle of essential oil: coffee filter, tape, cotton fluff, plastic vessel with lid taken off. The cotton fluff was…
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Jan 26, 2024 by HTV9 in Upcycling It started to squish. Filled it with toilet paper tubes and wound up squashing those down to fit inside the pizza box. February 12, 2024 Update: Made it unnecessarily hard to type even after entirely filling it with as many toilet paper tubes as it would hold. I…
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