Have any products in your home that you wonder if there may be more uses for it? All of these great articles on Little House Living talk about various household products that we all have and the different ways that you can reuse or use them, besides their original purpose!
Uses For Everyday Items
Ways to Reuse Everyday Objects
Ways to Reuse Mason Jars
Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Bags
Ways to Reuse Your Plastic Water Bottles
Uses for Coffee Filters
Uses for Everday Products
Uses for Toothpaste
Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide
Uses for Shea Butter
Uses for Witch Hazel
Castile Soap Uses for Home and Body
Uses for Aloe Gel
Uses for Epsom Salt
Uses for Food Items
Uses for Honey
Uses for Apple Cider Vinegar
Uses for Green Tomatoes
Uses for Olive Oil
Uses for Coffee
Ways to Use Squash Seeds
How to Use All of Your Food Scraps
Uses for Banana Peels
Saving Potato Water & What to Do With It
Uses for Apple Peels
Ways to Reuse Coffee Grounds
Herbs and Essential Oil Uses
Uses for Mint You Need to Try
Uses for Cilantro
Uses for Chives
Growing and Using Lemongrass
Creative Household Uses for Lemon Oil
Uses for Eucalyptus Oil
Grapefruit Essential Oil Uses
Uses for Peppermint Oil
Orange Oil Uses for Home & Beauty
Just a note for a way I reuse the containers that wax comes in. In talking about the divided trays that have cubes of wax, like for warmers. If I have a old candle to little too burn, I put it in the tray and can use it in warmer. I also put misc stuff from my “junk drawer” like tacks and store little items like that in drawer. Keeps them all together.
Just a little thought, I am sure everyone else already does this but here it goes anyway….I save any jar or sealable can to reuse at another time.. Right now I am saving all of my peanut butter plastic jars to use in my sewing room to hold small items such as pins, buttons, lace, elastic, ect. you get the idea, I use these jars because the label comes off easy and it is clear plastic so it is easy to see through.
I use Manson jars to keep my rice, crackers, I like glass jars in general. I have a new grandson so baby food jars are back sure have missed those little guys take care
Not only do I use Mason jars, but the blue mayonnaise lids fit perfectly and the green parmesan cheese lids fit as well giving me the option of using the sprinkle side or the spoon out side.
I save those peanut butter plastic jars for my mom she puts freezer jam in them…..:)
My boyfriend of 5 years and I have a tradition for the holidays. We each buy or make each other a special ornament. Money is tight this year, so I challenged myself to a no spend special ornament. Jesse is a little particular, but it just added to the challenge. I ended up making an ornament from a pop culture show he really likes out of toilet paper tubes, beads, one deconstructed googley eye, part of a pen cap, part of an old cleaned mascara brush, tooth picks, paint and an egg. It was awesome and he loves it. I always save packaging, it can always be reprocessed… 🙂
I would love to recieve mailings of saving money. Also crafts and home made things from stuff around the house….thanks
I put tea leaves in candle jars, tgey look nice. Old peanut butter jars…we freeze cookies in them because we can see them. 🙂
looking forward to more helpful hints
Young couple about to embark on the journey of full time rving with two dogs!
I like reading about your frugal suggestions and I thought I would throw in my own practice of adding a few drops of tea tree oil to my cheap shampoo. There are suggestions that it helps with eczema and helps prevent lice. I use it because it seems to help prevent oil buildup on my hair and makes my scalp feel tingly clean.
I saw it as an ingredient on much more expensive shampoos. A little bottle is easy to find at, I think you call it, the big W(?).
I also use it full strength as an antiseptic ( they also say it’s antibacterial ) on my skin ONLY****
This is not something you would ever swallow!
And never use on small children.
Another thing would be to add a drop into a vaporizer to be inhaled in the mist.
If you have certain allergies you might want to read up on that but my family has never had an allergic reaction to it and we’ve used it in shampoo for years.
I bought a small handbag for work a few years ago. The bow fell off & I sewed it to a gift handbag for a friend’s daughter. In London visiting my daughter the strap fell off my bag so I sewed it back, love that bag! when it started fraying at one edge I took the strap off and now use as a cosmetic bag, its brill.
I couldn’t help but want to share this with you. It’s taking a old bicycle and revamping it into a garden plow. To me this is really a super neat idea. Just wish I would of thought of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqSzrS6ksUM
I get some items in plastic containers (like dried apricots, raisings etc), hate throwing away, any ideas for uses? they stack, they are not long term type for foods,.
I use them for various things around the house that I don’t want to use something else for….they are great for paint (mine or the kids), a scoop for pet food, etc.