My parents aren’t wasteful people, they find a way to reuse
almost anything. Here’s a few things my
parents have been reusing, recycling, and upcycling before they were on
Pinterest.
Reusing glass jars
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| Reusing glass jars in a woodshop or garage |
My dad had a woodshop in the shed in our backyard. Now
thinking back on it, I wonder how much wood work he did, perhaps it was just to
get away from me and my brother, but that’s another story.
On the underside of a long shelf, he had nailed the lids of
jars, and in the jars were all kinds of nails and tacks and whatever stuff you
need to build things with wood. These
were recycled jars – maybe pickles or peanut butter; they definitely were not
purchased for this purpose. As a kid, I
thought it was a pretty cool idea and was for some reason, fascinated with
unscrewing the jars to see what was in them, although I could see (they were glass, after all) and there was nothing ever
more exciting than washers and nuts and bolts and nails.
