1. Dry Cleaning Bags
2. Butter Wrappers
3. Business Cards
4. Used Envelopes
5. Cardboard Egg Cartons
6. Tissue Boxes
7. Plastic Grocery Bags
8. Plastic Bread Clips
9. Newspaper
10. Plastic Strawberry Baskets
11. Cleaner Spray Bottles
12. Mesh From Veggie Bags
13. Styrofoam Food Trays
14. Pantyhose
15. Paper Towel Cardboard Rolls
16. Citrus Peels
17. Packing Foam Peanuts
18. Brown Paper Bags
19. Laundry Bottle Caps & Scoops
20. Cereal Liner Bags

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1. Save all paper, boxes, wrappers, etc. for firestarters. Cut, rip into small pieces.

2. Save all old/rancid grease and oil for the same reason.
3. What about water that has been cleaned and purified initially? Let’s say it was used to wash dishes with? What do you with with the gray water? flush toilets, water plants, etc?
4. Save and wash all cans, bottles, and other containers? Lots of uses for this kind of “trash”?
5. Old clothes and pieces of fabric? Cut into sections and make your own “baby wipes”? Use for extra insulation, either in house or stuffed into your clothes for warmth.
6. Lint from dryer? Save for firestarters.
7. Any vegetable matter leftover or rotten? Turn into compost..anything else?
8. Old newspapers? turn into firelogs
   

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Plastic grocery bags can be cut into strips, looped together, and knit or crocheted into tote bags, slings, hats waterbottle carriers, or even braided into rope.

Fabric scraps can be used for any number of things - — braid into rope, make rugs, patchwork quilts, tote bags, even sandles and slippers, jacket linings, whatever.

Old leather shoes can be cut up and made into gaskets to put into the older style water faucets when they drip. Same with leather purses, which can also be used to patch or replace the soles of slippers or shoes. Old leather pieces from shoes, purses, leather clothes can be used for a lot of things — knife sheaths, hatchet belt sling, braided for rope or belts, repair things that were made of rubber but not obtainable, machine parts and belts. (not really too strong, but in a pinch ….. and even dog toy chews.

Broken stoneware dishes can be used to sharpen knives or other tools.

Animal fats can be made into rush lights or candles. Smokey, though) and you can use vegetable oil for same.

toys and arts and crafts for the kids — they will have to be kept busy with fun quiet projects.

Ninepins or bowling game out of plastic bottles down a hallway, use a regular ball. Plastic milk bottle caps make nice game markers, like for checkers; cardboard from a box will make a nice board. Draw your own deck of cards and use bottle tops for chips.

Use scrap paper and flour and water paste for all kinds of art projects and house decorations, and even costumes. Brown paper bag masks. Make homemade Christmas cards. Tinfoil from candy wrappers will make nice Christmas decorations.

Cut small strips of scrap paper and roll them into tiny cones, us the cones to trim picture frames, make models of houses, build xmas trees, or whatever. Kind of like paper legos. Use water and flour blended for paste.

String together pasta shapes as edible jewelry.

If you have tins snips, and a hammer and nail, big tin cans can be made into candle lanterns or hurricane enclosures to protect candles. Take off top and bottom, cut down one side and open out, and you have a candle (or other light) reflector. All kinds of useful things can be made from tin cans. Remove lid, and two holes on the top lip and a piece of rope or wire and you have a small bucket. snip the sides from top to bottom in six or eight places, then roll the edges down and you have a small ashtray or dish.

Wear tough leather gloves when you do this.

tin cans as small flower pots for plant starts and indoor gardening. Tin cans for storage, or packaging for food givaways. Tin cans as water glasses, mugs. Open up and flatten out and hammer onto wood and you have a type of aluminum siding or even shingle repair.