It's very tempting to throw things away or even drop them in a recycling bin when we are done with them. Is there a better way?
Share your ideas for extending the “lives” of the items that we buy and use, and their packaging as well!
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Making Trash into Gold
Recently people started to use trash for fun crafts and decoration. Decoration can be expensive but when you make it yourself it’s free! Crafting is a cheap way to make things that can be useful in your home. You can use anything to make useful things, a way to repurpose things is using trash. Parents can use their crafts as DIY toys, making the lives easier. It is a cheap way to distract their kids for a little while. The trash you are about to throw away could be something you could use for years, so try your best to make the most out of it.
Exactly! This is a great point. There are so many things we recycle and throw away that can be turned into something really useful. I saw earlier someone said they turned an old milk jug into a watering can. Not only does that reuse something that was gonna be recycled, but it also saves money. Same with arts and crafts. I had an awesome time using old popsicle sticks for fun crafts when I was younger, it was one of my favourite things! When we reuse and repurpose items we can almost always get the same outcome of using something brand new.
these are great points! a lot of people will buy new Halloween decorations every year. my family makes Halloween decor out of old cardboard from our recycling bin and makes signs out of scrap paper. often times, it looks even better then store bought because it adds that homemade charm that you can get from just putting work into things. same goes for homemade cards and gifts, i know that i like a nice handmade birthday card from someone, then a generic one from the store. Old scrap paper can look great if we put the work in!





