How to reuse water bottles We all know the three “R”s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Reducing can be accomplished by purchasing an eco-friendly bottle, and keeping it with you to refill from the tap or water cooler. As for recycling, almost every municipality has some type of either curbside recycling, or a local place you can take your used plastics. The fun comes when we come to the third “R,” reuse. Statistics say that only about 20 percent of plastic water bottles are actually recycled, which leaves 80 percent to end up in landfills, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Learning how to reuse water bottles can help consumers save money, provide fun projects for families and kids and protect the environment from over-burdened landfills. Ideas for reuse range from décor to function to gardening. If you aren’t feeling crafty, simply filling the bottles with water and freezing them comes in handy for first aid, or keeping people and pets cool. More recycling stories on MNN:
Black Hole Cabinetry You know what I mean. The kind that is waaaaayyyy too deep and has all kinds of unusable space. I was fed up with our tall pantry cabinet. Every time I’d put something in there, it would slowly get pushed further and further back until I could no longer reach it. Eventually I’d forget it was even there. You wouldn’t believe what I discovered when I finally cleaned it out in preparation for this project. Custom cabinets have all kinds of fun drawers and pull-out options, but if you don’t have the moolah to overhaul your kitchen don’t fret! But if you’re really cheap, you can make your own. I am cheap. Here’s what you’ll need (or bribe your handy hubby to basically do this for you): Drawer slides in a size close to the depth of your cabinets (found in the hardware section of HD or Lowes)- we bought 22″ ones. Depending on your cabinets, you may or may not have to do this first step. Attach one half of the drawer slides to your furring strips. You like the ramen basket? *****Linked Up******
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Amazing DIY & Crafts Ideas #2 Cupcake pin cushion via (dollarstorecrafts) Magazine rolled up bowl Mosaic Ornaments from CDs Pallet – just stain and take out some slats. Write out your favorite song lyrics or favorite chapter of a book. Dipped pinecone placecard holder Painted vases Puzzle shelf Spoon ornaments could ad a unique twist to a Christmas tree. Turn a Bookshelf into a Shoe Rack! 20 things to do with toilet paper rolls . If there is one craft item that’s plentiful in every household, it’s toilet paper rolls. And the bigger your family, the more of a stockpile you’re likely to produce! So what to do with them? Source: skiptomylou.org So, gifts and toilet paper aren’t usually two things that go together, but with a couple of folds and some decoration you can transform toilet rolls in to pillow boxes perfect for party favours or little treats. Source: myrtleandeunice.com Beautiful, graphic and architectural, you can make just about any pattern you like using this technique. Source: saltwater-kids.com A rainy day craft with a big payoff – bright, gorgeous flowers! Source: tpcraft.blogspot.com.au Toilet paper rolls + peanut butter + birdseed + twine = a recycled bird feeder that the kids can help make. Source: decorareciclaimagina.blogspot.com.au Save this idea up for next Valentine’s Day, or surprise your loved one today! Source: saidosdaconcha.blogspot.com via eco-modernism.com Source: creativejewishmom.com
How-To's: Online Low-Tech Resources Energy Bulletin pointed us to the website of Practical Action (previously known as the Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development), an online resource devoted to low-technology solutions for developing countries. The site hosts many manuals that can also be of interest for low-tech DIYers in the developed world. They cover energy, agriculture, food processing, construction and manufacturing, just to name some important categories. We would like to add to this the impressive online library put together by software engineer Alex Weir. The 900 documents listed here (13 gigabytes in total) are not as well organised and presented as those of Practical Action, but there is a wealth of information that is not found anywhere else. The library is also hosted here (without search engine). Other interesting online resources that offer manuals and instructions are Appropedia and Howtopedia.
24 Painful Things You Must Do To Grow Up 1. Telling your parents that you are just not going to agree with them about certain things (especially regarding your lifestyle choices), and that you are ready to deal with the consequences that might bring in your relationship. 2. Removing friends from your life that you grew up with who are simply no longer good for you, even if you have known them so long as to consider them just a part of your life — something you assume will always be there. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Tagged Adult, Adulthood, Career, Choices, Finances, Growing, growing up, Jobs, Life, Mental health, Painful
20 Awesome Do It Yourself Projects Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:30 am, Posted by Chris Groves | Internet 20 Awesome Do It Yourself Projects Topics: At Home Project Ideas , Creative DIY Home Projects , Do It Yourself Projects for 2012 , Fun How To Projects , What to Do with Extra Stuff Are you bored and have a bunch of extra little items hanging around here and there? You honestly don’t know some of the creative things you can do with what could possible be junk. If you know of any great at home Do It Yourself Projects please leave a comment to include your own and maybe we will add it to our list. And for the upcoming holiday season we want to give all you do-it-yourselfers a head start with these incredible Christmas DIY for 2012 1. More info: here | Buy: here 2. More info: here 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Incoming search terms:
Woven Denim Rug or Trivet DIY Tutorial Many, many years ago, I went on a rag rug kick and starting cutting all the fabric I could find into strips—nothing was safe. This lead me to cutting up a bag full of secondhand denim jeans. But after I had created hundreds of yards of 1″ wide denim strips, the obsession fizzled out. (The fact that I realized crocheting denim was much different than crocheting a lighter cotton helped the joy fade.) So, for all these years I’ve had stacks of rolls of 1″ wide denim strips I had no idea what to do with. It’s all pretty simple and the technique is fairly obvious (who didn’t learn to weave paper like this in kindergarten?) I made two. The other was made the same way except I cut new strips of denim at 3″ wide, then folded and ironed each side (lengthwise) back 3/4″. This style object can be used as: a trivet or hot pad (just sandwich a couple layers of cotton batting in there) a table runner or mat placemats coasters a rug a wall hanging pet dish mat Can you think of any other clever uses?
Dozuki: A new way to write how-to manuals « iFixit Blog I have a big announcement to make. For the first time ever, iFixit is branching out from our core business of selling parts and tools. We’re going to start selling software—the same software that we use to run iFixit. This is something that astute observers may have expected from the development, and success, of Make: Projects. User manuals are stuck in the 20th century. Even the best manuals are still distributed as static PDFs. We started iFixit with the idea that there was a better way—that useful documentation could help people do amazing things. Our intuitive, step-by-step repair manuals changed the world. Today, we are announcing Dozuki: the software behind iFixit’s manuals. Guidebook makes step-by-step instructions come alive. Guidebook is a modern procedural documentation platform. Answers transforms conversations into archived wisdom. Answers is enterprise-grade Q&A for experts. Building expert communities iFixit won top online community this year at South by Southwest (SXSW).
40 MORE Things Every 18-Year-Old Should Know Written By : John HawkinsApril 15, 2009 1) One of the two things I heard over and over when people talked about the original list with older people was some variation of, “I wish I had spent a lot less money on frivolous things and saved a lot more money when I was a teenager.” 2) The other recurring theme from older people was, “I didn’t know nearly as much at 18 as I thought I did and my parents were right about things a lot more than I thought they were.” 3) If you are cutting something, whether it be with scissors, a knife, a box cutter, anything sharp, make sure you are pulling the blade away from your body, not towards it. 4) If you get pulled over by the police, don’t mouth off, keep your hands where the officer can see them, and don’t make any sudden movements. 5) “Things every person should have in his car: a car jack and spare tire, jumper cables, flash light, & a first aid kit.” — mightysamurai 6) Write an advance medical directive, a will, and plan for your funeral. Also see,