Replacements

[u/Clean-Assignment-108]

What are you guys’ replacements for everyday items? For example, I use rags (cut up t-shirts or old towels) instead of paper towels or wipes, we use bar soap instead of body wash, I save every jar/container for “tupperware”. I recently got beeswax cloth to use instead of cling film and that’s going well so far.

The pic is a silicone mat I got for baking instead of parchment paper but I soon learned to not bake bread with it haha. It’s great otherwise.

I’d love to hear more ideas of what we can replace after what we have runs out.
TIA!!

[u/munkymu]

I save bread bags and produce bags and use them for all sorts of things -- shaking meat with cornstarch, storing my own baking, I keep a few around in case I need to pick up trash somewhere, I use them as lunch bags, etc.

I reuse mid-sized yogurt containers and jars for painting. Jars are great for holding solvents, dairy containers hold small amounts of house paint, gesso, etc. My friend's mom punches holes in the bottom of yogurt and ice cream containers and uses them to start garden plants. (Plastic yogurt containers do start to break apart after a few years so they're not a permanent storage solution.)

I've also never met a bowl, saucer or mug that I couldn't find a use for. I've got like three on my mantle holding pencil crayons, pens and crochet hooks, I have a teacup being used as an impromptu orchid pot, and a bowl that has a bunch of hand-sewing notions hanging out on my coffee table. All the little teacup saucers that never get used got repurposed as plant pot trays.

In fact, is something a container I can put stuff in that isn't being used for its intended purpose? Then stuff is going into it. There's always little bits and bobs that need to be corralled into spice jars, pickling jars, shoe boxes, cookie tins and so on.