- If your clothes are past donation status, remove buttons, zippers and any decorative detailing before throwing them out
- Save frozen juice cans so the kids can make pencil holders (dad always needs another for his desk) - try gluing a winter felt scene with seed bead snowflakes...think outside the can
- Organize embroidery thread or small skeins of yarn on an old coffee mug rack
- Consider scrapping your worn clothing - one day your kids may sit under a quilt or blanket and reminisce about their old favorites (cut out those adorable t-shirt icons and iron-ons, too)
- Look over your empty laundry soap boxes/containers and all of those tubs from the kitchen - paint them or paper them and store an infinite amount of notions
- Your favorite paper catalog can be cut up for scrapbooking or a tiny paper project - for free!
- Grab something from the trash or recycle bin, drag it into your workspace, and force yourself to be creative (look what those designers can accomplish with car parts or coffee filters on Project Runway). You'll feel better knowing you've been environmentally responsible.
I'd love to hear more crafty conservation ideas from you.
Recently I made a winter hat for my husband
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Instead of buying the recommended plastic canvas for the bill, I instead cut the form out of an empty laundry soap bottle; nobody can tell and infact many of his friends thought he bought the hat at his favorite clothing retailer.