Don't throw it away!!

I love to take something and turn it into something else! Here are a few things that are commonly thown away that I reuse.

1) Greeting Cards  (especially Christmas cards)  ----Christmas cards have endless uses at my house.  I cut out the picture on the front and use for gift tags on packages and gift bags. 

 Cut the picture out normally or with decorative edge scissors, run a thin line of glue around the edge and sprinkle with glitter. Holepunch a hole in the top, run a ribbon thru, and hang on your Christmas tree for a unique and beautiful ornament.

Use the pictures as a background or embellishment in a scrapbook.

2) Re-sealable plastic bags that grated cheese, carrots, rice, etc come in make great freezer bags. Fill the bags with your item (make sure it's airtight first) and write the contents and date on the front with a freezer pen. No more Ziplocs to buy!

3) I've fallen love with those awesome tubes M & M Minis come in. They have become craft supply holders, screw and nail jars, pill boxes, mailing tubes (I sent my step sons birthday party invitations out in them--too fun!) button boxes, and needle & pin containers at my home. The list could go forever. Just remove the M & M label and fill!

4) Whenever I get junk mail, I check the back of the paper before I throw it out. If one side of the paper is blank, it gets cut into smaller squares to be used as scrap paper.  Get for jotting down a grocery or to-do list.

5) I don't re-use these at home but I do give them to someone else---magazines.  Donate them to a nursing home, library, daycare (children's magazines, of course),  schools, etc. I usually give mine to a friend who works with the mentally challenged, teaching them to read.

Anyone else got some more great recycling tip?  Please post them!