Uncommon Uses for Common Household Items 2

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Tin Foil: Crumple a piece of tin foil and use it to shine bicycle rims

Berry Baskets:  Use berry baskets to foil rodents in the garden. Set the basket at the right depth in your garden, place bulb(s) inside and cover with dirt.

Bicycle Wheels: Use old bike wheels as a trellis for peas and beans. Mount an old bike wheel on top of a pole. Run strings down and peg them into the ground. Train pea and been plants to run up the strings.

Empty Bottles: Dig holes and set bottles in the ground with ¼ to ½ inch of the neck left exposed. When the wind blows it will make the bottles whistle, and scare off moles and rabbits.

Bread: When roasting meat, place a piece of bread under the rack. The bread will absorb the fat. When meat is done cooking, remove bread and make low fat gravy.

Bubble Wrap:  Regular pillows can get damp and smelly when you use them for camping. Save bubble wrap and take it camping to use as pillows. Slip some into an old pillow case and you have an instant pillow. If the case smelly damp it is much easier to clean than a pillow. 2. Use bubble wrap for insulation in a child’s tree house or in the dog house.

Candle wax: Drip candle wax onto eggshells, dye and then peel off the wax to reveal a pattern.

Tin Cans: 1. Remove the label from an empty tin can, punch holes in it and use as a draft free outdoor candle holder. 2. Remove both ends of a tin can and push it into the earth around young garden plants. The can will protect the plants from cut worms.

Paper Towel Tubes: 1. Wrap Christmas lights around the tubes and secure with an elastic band so they don’t get tangled.  2. Use to store and protect florescent light tubes.

Old Carpeting: Cut and glue a piece of old carpet to a block of wood and use to dust window screens. 2. Place a piece of old carpeting under your sewing machine to buffer the noise.

Cheesecloth: 1. Place a piece of cheesecloth over the end of your vacuum cleaner nozzle when cleaning out drawers. The cheesecloth will allow dust to be sucked up but prevent small object from ending up in the vacuum bag.  2. Wrap an ice cube in cheesecloth and drag slowly across the top of a soup or stew to remove the surface fat.

Clipboards: 1. Hang a clipboard from the workshop wall and use to hold sheets of sandpaper. 2. Hang a clipboard inside one of your kitchen cabinet doors and use it to hold placemats. This will keep them from becoming wrinkled or bent.

Concrete Blocks: Keep in your trunk for better traction in the winter.

Corn Starch: Use cornstarch instead of baby powder.

Old Doors: Hinge together three or four old doors, paint them and use as a room divider. This is a good idea for unfinished basements.

Garden Hose: Split a piece of garden hose the length of a saw blade. Slip the hose over the blade to protect it.

Lemons: If lettuce gets limp, soak it in a bowl of cold water with the juice from ½ a lemon.

Onion Bags: Use a mesh onion bag to take plastic toys to and from the beach so you don’t take beach sand home with you.

Club Soda: Use club soda to loosen rusty nuts and bolts.

Wine Cork: Help prevent your garden tools from rusting by rubbing them with a cork dipped in a bit of Olive Oil.

Athletic Wrist Bands: To keep water from running down your arks when washing walls or windows, wear a terrycloth wrist band.

Part 1: Uncommon Uses For Common Household Items