Binders melt in the attic. Please don’t store binders anywhere non-air-conditioned. Don’t store them in the attic, the garage, shed, where they will melt and rust. The stickers will get gooky and creatures will poop on them. The rings will rust. Keep one or two on hand and then put the rest out in circulation…
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie from the Netflix Halloween episode. Shown are Pig, Mouse, Moose and Cat, my version. We had Pig (Piggy), Mouse, and Cat (Bartley from True and the Rainbow Kingdom and yes I know ours is pink and not black). I found Mouse at Sprouts this fall season. We realized…
This is our thrifted costume for Book Character Friday. My son chose to be Oliver with Mouse from “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” so made their outfits. He used his own navy shorts form school instead of jeans (he doesn’t like jeans and it was too hot for pants) and I planned to…
Card tables are so sturdy, and they have so many uses, that it’s really easy to rehome even if they’re decades old. Older churches and garages tend to have a few of these laying around. Spiders love them so I definitely encourage you to rehome them and keep them clean. I personally use two when…
If you need plasticore, corrugated plastic signing, these are banners with grommets are $2 for a large and $0.50 for small. Usually the backs are white and you can paint them and reuse them. Austin Creative Reuse #reuse #recycle #plasticsigns
My son’s school has a uniform resale store. I love it! The girls have the option to wear skirts and we were in desperate need for what are officially called pants hangers. Some of the skirts were double clipped two to a hanger, some were clotheslined or binder clipped to a regular hanger, it was…
I don’t even know how many families these have been through at this point, at least four. Cookies cutters, particularly for play dough, just keep on working and being great! So definitely bag them up and keep them moving along. We’re more of an activity set for play dough at this point so we rehomed…
My son had workbooks leftover from last school year. We did some of them during the summer but not much. I posted these on my local Buy Nothing Project Facebook group and someone asked for them. There are a lot of homeschool families, or just parents that want to offer extra help and lessons. You…
Does anyone else thing of Mater when they use the word “Modify!” I’m cutting down yard signs from one style to another, so instead of a milk-carton sleeve they fit the corrugated plastic signs. Full video at https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HmDawsCzA/: the Facebook, Instagram or TikTok accounts. Waste not, want not! #yardsigns #schoolspirit #wastenotwantnot #repurpose #repair
Medals and Awards: Less is more. Not only are more impactful rewards going to mean more, there’s also less waste created by making so many rewards and awards for absolutely everything. If you must use paper certificates and work hard on the animation. Austin Creative Reuse is one of the few places and ways I’m…