Recycling toilet paper tubes

[Georgiagirl]

I cut them down the side and slip them over my clothes hangers so my pants and such dont have a crease in them.
AND make the fire starters. But I usually make 4 out of one roll by cutting the rolls, stuffing in the lint, pouring left over candle wax in it. It is perfect to start our chimena or wood stove.

 

[ticks]

A cut worm is a nasty little larval(?) wormy thing that lives in the soil- you plant a seedling and it comes out and chews throughthe stem at ground level- you just find your bright new seedling laying on it's side like a tiny lumberjack felled it. I used to cut the TP cardboard at a couple of inches high and put in around the seedling, pressing it into the soil a little bit. Cut worms don't climb so it protects the seedling til it gets too big for the worm. I wouldn't think it would work to help with anything that climbs like a borer or caterpillar but it does work if you have cut worms.
I wonder if you used something like tanglefoot on it whether it would keep out caterpillars too????

thanks.

 

[Janet&Jim]

You can use the lint out of the dryer in them, tape the ends and use them for fire starters.

That is a SUPER IDEA Bee. We've got 7 fireplaces in our house.

 

[Beekissed]

I'll tell you something else you may enjoy, as you have fireplaces. I gather pine cones( the giant hemlock's cones are perfect for this) and place them in plastic bags with potpourri oils, usually a holiday spice scent. I shake them up so the oil is well distributed on all the cones and I let them sit overnight. Then I lay them out on newspaper to dry, blot off extra oil and place in baskets. I can get a cute basket from Dollar General for around $3-$5, or even for a few cents at a yard sale. Wrap a wired, decorative Christmas ribbon around each basket and tie in a bow. Instant holiday decoration, a hearth basket loaded with sweetly scented pine cones that make excellent fire starters. For an added touch, sometimes I'll insert a sprig of evergreen, or some berries, here and there in the basket and sprinkle a little gold or silver sparkle on the cones.

I tell you folks, I made one of these baskets for someone for a gift exchange at work and everyone went ga-ga over it, so I sold a few more for $20 a pop!

 

[mgibbzzz]

We use them for party favors. Either pain or wrap inpaper and fill with candy for the kids. We use leftover pieces of wrapping paper and tie with a bit of ribbon or yarn. When done, they go into the woodburner.

 

[cknmom]

I have cut them down and covered and decorated them for napkin rings. Decorated for placecard holders for holiday/ party tables. My kids used to make finger puppets out of them. DGD once made pilgrims out of them for me. You can make desk organizers also.

Monica

 

[Dace]

Cut worm collars?

Yep, me too.

I use slices of plastic water bottles...at least I did when I bought them, now I rarely do.

 

[ChickaD]

Wow, this is too cool! Yesterday I was actually thinking that our family is so frugal that if there were a way to reuse toilet paper tubes, we'd do it... not knowing there ARE ways to reuse them, as you've shown! What timing!

 

[Janet&Jim]

Also, if the toilet paper rolls off the back instead of the front...another pet peeve of mine.

It must be a lefty thing but I'm totally opposite. I put it on to roll off the back.

It's jist downright un American to have the paper roll off the bottom(back)

 

[sweetcorn]

Ours become dwarf hamster play tubes.