Tag: upcycling
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Ice Pack
Reused pho broth container well cleaned and filled with water, then it headed into the freezer. Just something I hope will help keep stuff in our travel cooler cool on road trips. A hard-sided cooler, a few of these, perhaps some frozen water bottles or juice packs, and some food and hey, you don’t have…
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Dusting Tool
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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Portable Zen Garden
Oct 2, 2024 by HTV9 Ingredients:1 bag of aquarium sandA few pebblesReclosable plastic containerForkYou can close it up when it’s not in use so you can keep it in a high traffic living room or office without as much fear of it spilling © http://www.abrandnewbookofdays.com 2024
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Water Conserving In Potted Plants
Jul 9, 2024 by HTV9 This is a pepper plant. I ripped up paper sandwich bags to top the soil and covered that with some mulch. You could probably use grocery bags and ripped up cardboard instead but oddly, I had none. The real heat of the Texas summer hasn’t hit yet but so far…
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Cereal Box Cord Organizer Design 1
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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Pudding Cup For Hair Ties
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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Applesauce Cup and Pudding Cup Pill Area
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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Air Freshener
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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No Visuals: Uses Of Rags or Washcloths
Jan 26, 2024 by HTV9 Washcloths Uses:Fold into quarters and use as a soap dishUse instead of a plastic scrubby to exfoliate skin in the shower or bathWhen you get soap slivers, wet down the washcloth and rub the soap into the washcloth to use up the soapWipe down surfaces in the kitchen with dish…
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Improved Pizza Box Laptop Holder
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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