Ripen Tomatoes AltUse for Newspaper

Recycle newspapers? How about another option? Newspaper AltUse to ripen tomatoes


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Gardening and Vinegar AltUse

Supercharge your garden. Use this Vinegar AltUse to nourish your plants 


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Pet Care AltUse

Pet hair everywhere Kitchen rubber glove AltUse removes hair


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Trash Can Oder AltUse

Solve smelly kitchen trash can problem with the coffee bean AltUse

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Picture Frame

What to do with photos? AltUse suggestion, picture frame matte.

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Clean Up Clutter AltUse

Cluttered? Octopus of electrical cords? AltUse hides electronics mess.

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Fall Pruning AltUse with Cinnamon

Plants in need of fall pruning? Cinnamon AltUse prevents infection

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Tennis Ball AltUse

Sunday laundry? Nights getting cooler? Tennis ball AltUse when washing comforter

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Skateboarding AltUse

Skateboarding today? Update its deck with a vinyl banner AltUse

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Aspirin AltUse

SNL tonight? Party hard? Headache? Surprise your girlfriend? Aspirin AltUse will keep flowers fresh and lots more.


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Weekend Barbecue AltUse

A beautiful fall weekend barbecue? Onion AltUse to clean your grill

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AltUse to Hold Your Money or Business Cards

Want to add style to your wardrobe? AltUse wallet or business card holder


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Plastic Grocery Bags made into Storage Containers

Still using plastic grocery bags? An AltUse for them, creating practical art for storage 

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Packaging AltUse Promotion continues

Do you extra have bubblewrap? Packaging material AltUse


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Stylish Purse AltUse

Be an AltUse fashionista. Create a stylist purse with this vinyl banner AltUse


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Gardening

Fall gardening suggestions. Make an AltUse border for a flower bed with Glass Bottles

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AltUse Snow Scraper

Thinking about the coming winter? Cassette tape case AltUse to remove snow from your car windows

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Another Packaging Material AltUse

AltUse for air pillow bags. Packaging material you might otherwise throw in the trash 

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Clean Up Clutter AltUse

Clean up clutter, magazine AltUse mail bin


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Crafts - Grass Head

Looking for craft activities? Plastic container AltUse to create a Grass Head

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AltUse for Newspaper Bags

Do you receive a daily newspaper? AltUse for the newspaper plastic bag sleeve

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Packaging Material Garage Band AltUse

Are you in a garage band? Packing box AltUse to insulate your garage door


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Book Ends

Love to read? Make AltUse book ends with packing boxes


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Gardening with Styrofoam AltUse

What to do with packaging peanuts? Styrofoam packaging peanuts AltUse for your garden


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AltUse Storage Container

Wrapping Paper Tube Spice Rack
I have used the small, hard, empty wrapping paper rolls to create a spice rack in my kitchen drawer.

1. Cut roll to fit snugly in drawer horizontally.
2. The spices then can be leaned up against the roll so that when the drawer is opened you see all of the spice bottles lined up.

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Mother Jones Covers AltUse - September 22, 2009

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5 Creative Uses for: Coffee Filters

— By Kiera Butler | Tue September 22, 2009 4:00 AM PST

—Image courtesy AltUse.com

A few weeks back, I posted about alternative uses for coffee. If you have extra coffee, chances are you also occasionally have extra filters. The reuse gurus over at AltUse.com have done it again with these brilliant ideas. Use filters to:

1. Filter cork out of wine. Place an unbleached filter over your glass and before you pour the wine. Minimal impact to taste.

2. Stop a razor nick from bleeding. Tear off a small piece of filter and cover the nick. Stems bleeding fast.

3. Clean windows. Use filters instead of paper towels. Picks up dirt and dust without leaving lint behind.

4. Absorb food grease. Durable filters soak up excess oil without disintegrating. Works for bacon, pizza, french fries, or any of your other favorite greasy foods. Bonus: After frying, pour leftover oil through a coffee filter, then use it again.

5. Line house plants: Prevent soil seepage by placing a coffee filter in the bottom of a plant pot.

Use Milk Cartons to Create Grass Plugs

Grass Plugs for your Garden
Grow Grass Plugs to patch your yard in paper half gallon milk containers.

1. Cut your half gallon milk containers lengthwise through the round plastic spout. Now you have two halfs.
2. Put potting soil or better yet soil that you have made in your backyard from composed kitchen vegetable waste.
3. Soak the soil well with water so the container feels heavy. Spinkle grass seed over the surface and gentle press the seed into the wet soil.
4. Slip a plastic newspaper sleeve around the half milk carton and then set the container outside in a partial sun area. After about 5 days start to check it and see if it needs more water. After the grass sprouts and grows about an inch of two, take off the plastic bag and keep the soil moist. 

After about 30 days you have a grass plug to patch your lawn. When you pull out weeds, use the plug to patch the hole. When your dog urinates and grass dies, replace it with the grass plug!



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Carpet AltUse - Shoe Keeper

Transform Carpet Scraps Into Designer Shoe Keeper


Tricycle, Inc.'s "Ample Sample" competition gives designers another chance to transform carpet samples into something useful, beautiful, or just downright cool. The 2009 Ample Sample Winner is Wuthichai Leelavoravong's "Shoe Keeper."

Instructions:

1) Measure on the back side and cut the carpet tile in half with a knife;

2) Measure and cut the carpet tile as shown in the picture (see instructions link with graphics). Then fold the carpet tile at the red line;

3) Clip the folder carpet tile with a binder clip on each side. Then, use two small nails to hang the finished piece on the wall;

Note: It is possible to create multiple pieces and group them in many different ways.

4) Pull the strip that is already cut out and insert a pair of shoe inside.


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To learn more about this contest and Tricyle, Inc, visit www.tricycleinc.com

Cowboy Boots and AltUse

Weekend cowboy? Boots out of shape? AltUse to restore the shape to your boots


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Cat Play Toy AltUse

Love your cat? Show your cat a great time with this AltUse ribbon play toy.

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Camping Altuse to keep small items together in cooler

Use a mesh produce bag to store small items
When camping for several days, you'll have lots of small quantities of foods and condiments to keep in the cooler. Use mesh produce bags to make them easy to find while still allowing them to chill properly in the cooler.


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Use a 6-pack bottle holder to organize your cosmetics!

Plans on watching football and drinking a six pack of beer? AltUse for the six pack bottle holder .

1. Use decorative contact paper to cover the drink holder
2. Lay each side of the drink holder down onto the underside of the contact paper and trace with a pencil.
3. Cut each shape out with an exacto knife and carefully peel and stick on to the drink holder.
4. Decorate as wanted otherwise (with stickers, glitter glue, shape cutouts, etc.).

Place makeup brushes, hair brushes, hair products, etc in empty drink spaces!

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Fix a Squeaky Door

Use olive oil to fix squeaky door.
Use a rag or cotton swab to apply olive oil to the top of a problematic hinge in your home or automobile.
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Remove Pilling From Sweaters

Use velcro to easily remove pills from a soft sweater.

Use the rough side of a piece of velcro to gently pull of pills from a sweater


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Newspapers and Pillowcase AltUse

Use newspapers and pillowcase as temporary ironing board
Stack newspapers, slip into pillowcase, and make it as level as possible. Use as temporary ironing board.pillowcase, and make it as level as possible. Use as temporary ironing board.


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Gardening Ashes make great compost

As civilizations that have towns around volcanoes have known for ages, ashes are great for growing plants. If you have a wood stove or a fire pit, you can mix the ashes with your compost to enrich your soil.

If you are using the compost to grow food, make sure you are careful of what you are burning, as you won't want plastic residues or other chemicals to get into your compost.

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AltUse Covered by Mother Jones Tuesday 9/15/2009

5 Creative Uses For: Honey

— By Kiera Butler | Tue September 15, 2009 4:00 AM PST

—Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Don't let honey lurk in your cabinet, quietly crystalizing while you forget about it. Instead,AltUse.com suggests using it to:

1. Soothe a sore throat: Instead of a teabag, add honey and lemon to hot water. Or, if you're feeling brave, mix 1/2 c. vinegar and 1/4 c. honey and gargle. Both solutions work like a cough drop.

2. Clear up acne: Apply a little honey to a blemish and cover with a band-aid. Works best overnight.

3. Condition your hair: Add one tablespoon of plain honey to two teaspoons of oilive oil. Place the mixture in the microwave for 15 seconds or until warm. Rub the mixture into your hair, wrap in a wet towel, and leave on for 20 minutes. Shampoo normally, but lather well to get olive oil out.

4. Dress a wound: In a pinch, honey works as a mild antiseptic. Apply it to to the wound and cover with a band-aid.

5. Exfoliate your skin: Honey crystallized? Use it like a facial scrub to get rid of dead skin. Rinse off with water.

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Foam and Bubble Wrap AltUse Ideas

Everyone loves bubble wrap - See the AltUse ideas for packing material 

Wine Bottle AltUse

Great weekend leave you with empty bottles of wine? AltUse Flower Vase -


Any old glass bottle works very well as a flower vase. To add a decorative touch, you can paint the outside or use a hot glue gun to decorate with old jewels or beads.


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Keep you brown bag lunch cool and fresh

Keeping things cold 


Use old plastic bottles to keep items cold or provide a tasty treat


Need to keep your kids lunches cold?

1) Fill a used 12 oz plastic bottle half way with water and freeze.

2) In the morning fill the other half with juice and place in the lunch box.

Your lunch will still be cold and you will have a delicious drink to go with it.


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Bathtub and Sink Cleaner - AltUse for Baking Soda

You can have a fabulously clean bath tub and sink by utlizing white vinegar and baking soda.

1)Turn on the shower and wet the tub.

2)Sprinkle the baking soda over the entire tub and take your white vinegar and spray it all over the bath tub.

3)Do the same with your sink.

The mixture of the two will generate an active fizzle that allows you to clean stains naturally.

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Clean Car Headlights

Days are getting shorter again. Brighten your car headlight beam using car wax

Aspirin AltUse Facial

Brighten your day up with an AltUse aspirin facial. Read more at about aging skin care at Skin Care

Bruise Healing with Toothpaste AltUse

No Lie. Football workout got you bruised up? AltUse bruise relief with toothpaste

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