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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Jackie 
Wow, those are some great tips. One thing that I do is buy OTC medicines in bulk (like tylenol, allergy medicine, etc). I take a small travel size pill bottle and just refill it from the big bottles. That way I can keep some in my purse without taking up too much room.