Clever New Uses For Household Items

MSN Lifestyle has a slideshow article from RealSimple showing new ways to use old items around the house. Some of them are so clever, I had to share.  Tell me what you think of these ideas in a comment or share some of your ways to reuse household items!

• Use a Twister Game Mat as a tablecloth for a child’s birthday party. After everyone eats, wipe it clean and use to play Twister!
• Wash out an empty ketchup bottle, let dry, then fill with pancake batter to squeeze out the perfect amount of batter!
• Use an empty toilet paper tube to keep your hair accessories handy. Hairclips and bobby pins go on top, ponytail holders wrap around!
• A six-pack drink holder is the perfect size for carrying ketchup, mustard, squeeze relish, rolled up napkins, and utensils to a picnic!
• Have an empty cassette tape holder? Coil up your iPod earphones and stash inside. A small MP3 player will fit inside too!
• Use an empty (and clean) travel soap holder (the kind with the lid that snaps shut) to carry your point and shoot camera in your purse!
• Store extra plastic shopping bags for lining your wastebaskets in empty tissue boxes. Keep one under each bathroom sink!
• At a party, mark each person’s glass with a removable window decal. Stores have holiday ones for a festive touch!
• Wrap the ends of hangers with rubber bands and dress straps won’t slip off!
• Cover doorknobs with aluminum foil when painting to keep them clean!
• Need to take a few day’s medication with you on a trip? Pop a fewl pills into a contact lens case so you don’t have to take the whole bottle!
• It’s easier for a child to drink out of a regular glass if you wrap a few rubber bands around it for a better grip!
• Eye doctor gave you an eyeglass case you don’t use? Use it for nail clippers and emery boards when you travel!
• Wrap a wine-bottle carton in pretty paper and use it to hold your lightweight shoes, sandals, and slippers!
• A napkin holder can hold your bills, checkbook, stamps, address labels, and envelopes neatly on your desk!
• Attach a magnet to the inside of a metal medicine cabinet to hold your nail clippers or tweezers!

Told you the ideas were clever!  I hate having my camera loose in my purse, I never thought to put it in a hard plastic soap holder!  What are your tips?

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