If you need to keep food cold when travelling by car, here’s a tried and true tip. Save the plastic bladders from empty wine casks and fill them with enough water so that they lie flat like a brick and freeze them a few days before travelling. Then pack frozen bladders on top of your […]
As a Christchurch resident with our wheelie bins supplied I was left with a plastic bin with locking lid. I have found a great use for it, after washing it I got my husband to drill 10 holes in a circle around the lid then 5 holes in an inner circle to fit broom handles. […]
Use old rolls or part rolls of wallpaper to make free gift bags and wrapping paper.
I have a lot of soap pieces that I keep during the year. I render them down in an old pot, when it’s a bit cooler add petals from your garden, even pieces of orange peel,apple peel, lavender flowers,even use your old perfume. Use cookie cutters [$2 shop] stand on waxed paper, and tip the […]
An empty used tin of beans can be used as packaging to post things in. It’s quite strong and keeps whatever you are sending safe inside.
Use worn toothbrushes as a scrubbing brush in those hard to get at places like between ceramic tiles, taps, etc.
Get the last drop out of tubes of anything by cutting them in half when you have finished squeezing out as much as you can. You will be surprised how many more portions you will get out of the tube. Slip one cut end inside the other until finished. This works really well for cosmetics […]
• Used tea leaves make excellent fertiliser for pot plants. – O.R. • Use used tea leaves to make a window cleaner. Simple pour boiling water on the discarded tea leaves/bags, leave for an hour, then use. – O.R. • I save my tea bags and use them to clean my eye glasses. The bags […]
• 2lt ones are great for cutting up and making into flash cards for little ones. Cut down the side panels into the size you want then right on them with permanent markers , words, numbers, letters etc. Hole punch through the corner and thread onto an old key ring. Great for in the car. […]
At Christmas time I always cut circles out of plastic milk bottles and use them as gift tags. They look like bubbles and if you add a little glitter and hole punch and thread ribbon through they are fab! Use a permanent marker for the name.