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Donating or Recycling Old Trophies

What can I do with a lot of old trophies? They are in the way and we just want to get rid of them. Someone told us one time about some trophy company that melts them down and re-uses the trophy.If anyone has any info, please let me know.

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Uses for Large Plastic Coffee Cans

I need some ideas for what to do with large plastic coffee cans. They are very sturdy and it seems to me there have got to be good uses for them.

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Dumpster Diving Down Under

Please help me if you can. I live in Australia and I'm also new to this site. I have never heard of dumpster diving. I know I don't get out much, but this is new to me. By the way, your site is great!

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Recycling a Printer

I have a printer than isn't working anymore, and was wondering where I could take it to be recycled. Hewlett-Packard won't buy it back or recycle it because it's too new. Thanks for your input on this subject!

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Uses for Old Lipstick

Does anyone have uses for old lipsticks? I just don't want to have them fill up landfills.

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Removing the Coffee Smell from Plastic Canisters

How do I get the coffee smell out of the Folders coffee canisters? I have tried baking soda and putting it in the sun for a few days, but the coffee smell always comes back. I want to use these for Christmas treats and I don't want them to smell like coffee. Please help. Thank you.

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Reusing Dry Dog Food Bags

What can I do with the empty dry dog food bags?

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Newspaper Recycling Book

Years ago, at our public library, I checked out a book entitled, "The Newspaper Everything Book". I believe it's now out of print and I cannot locate a copy anywhere.

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Recycling House Batteries

I am trying to find where I can turn in our house batteries. We are told not to put in the garbage, but our landfill/recycling location does not take them.

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Selling Old Tires in the UK

Please let me know where I can sell old tyres. I have around 100,000. Thank you.

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Reusing the Wax Left by Oil Candles

What can I do with the wax that's left from these oil candles? Thanks.

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Reusing Snap Top Plastic Containers

What ideas are out there to reuse snap top plastic canisters like the ones you would have for a disinfectant wipe?

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Reusing Pump Bottles

I go through a lot of hand sanitizer and wanted to know what ideas are out there to reuse the pump top plastic bottle?

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Reusing Laundry Detergent Caps

What can you do with left over laundry detergent caps?

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Reusing the Sticky Flexible Adhesive Used in Mailings

Can the sticky material used in direct mailings be reused for anything? It is the strips of sticky stuff to secure samples in a mailing.

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Getting Rid of Old Tires

Getting Rid of Old Tires We have a barn full of old tires that we "inherited" when we purchased our property. We have called around to tire recycling centers, but they want so much per tire. Does anyone know how we can dispose of them safely and economically?


Uses for Cupboard Doors

Uses for Cupboard DoorsUses for old wooden cupboard doors from the ThriftyFun community. Depending on the size and durability, what about adding some legs and making a really cute little kids table.


Uses for Egg Shells

Uses for Egg ShellsUses for eggshells from the ThriftyFun community. I use finely crushed eggshells around seedlings that I transplant into my garden each spring. The shells keep snails, slugs and cut worms away.


Uses For Old Calendars

Uses For Old CalendarsWhat do you do with old calendars? Here are ideas submitted from the ThriftyFun community. What I like to do with the old calendars is to cut out the photographs and then use them in various crafts such as decoupage or paper crafting.