Use milk cartons to freeze fish. Put the fish in a clean milk carton, add water then freeze for later use.

Wash milk cartons. Dry and use to store food in the freezer – don’t forget the label. Also good for carrying plants.

Recycling milk cartons are great for potting up seedlings. Cut in half with knife, trim bottom corners with scissors for drainage. Ready to go. Plants should be removed when ready to plant as plastic coating doesn’t breakdown.

A use for old guttering: board up the ends and fill half with spagnum moss and then soil on top. Plant out with parsley which will grow nicely even over winter. Probably can do little lettuces too.

Reusing newspaper. Use as wallpaper – very appropriate in rooms like a study. Makes good carpet underlay to stop those sneaky drafts.

I have a friend who made a really attractive lamp shade from a newspaper. The old shade had worn out so he simply pasted the pages around the frame. What made it really interesting was that he used the newspaper that reported the 1987 sharemarket crash. It is always an interesting read and it is […]

Newspaper bags: Take 2 sheets newspaper. Lie lengthwise. Fold up along bottom approx 3″. Reverse over. Fold into 3. Tuck outer one under flap. Reverse over. Fold in half & tuck under flap. Has lots of uses including your unwanted pamphlets etc for collection.