At least 10 Uses For Egg Cartons
From Reader's Digest - RD.com
Use for storing and organizing
With a dozen handy compartments, egg cartons are a natural for storing and organizing small items. Here are some ideas to get you going. You're sure to come up with more of your own.
Instead of emptying the coins in your pocket into a jar for later sorting, cut off a four-section piece of an egg carton and leave it on your dresser. Sort your quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies as you pull them out of your pockets. (Dump pennies in a larger container, such as a jar, or put them in a piggy bank.)
Organize buttons, safety pins, threads, bobbins, and fasteners on your sewing table.
Organize washers, tacks, small nuts and bolts, and screws on your workbench. Or use to keep disassembled parts in sequence.
Keep small Christmas ornaments from being crushed in handy, stackable egg cartons.
Start a fire
Fill a cardboard egg carton with briquettes (and a bit of leftover candle wax if it's handy), place in your barbecue grill, and light. Egg cartons can also be filled with tinder, such as small bits of wood and paper, and used as a fire starter in a fireplace or a woodstove.
Start seedlings
An egg carton can become the perfect nursery for your seeds. Use a cardboard egg carton, not a polystyrene one. Fill each cell in the carton with soil and plant a few seeds in each one. Once the seeds have sprouted, divide the carton into individual cells and plant, cardboard cells and all.
Make ice
Making a bunch of ice for a picnic or party? Use the bottom halves of clean polystyrene egg cartons as auxiliary ice trays.
Reinforce a trash bag
Yuck! You pull the plastic trash bag out of the kitchen trash container and gunk drips out. Next time, put an opened empty egg carton at the bottom of the trash bag to prevent tears and punctures.
Create shippable homemade goodies
Here's a great way to brighten the day of a soldier, student, or any faraway friend or loved one. Cover an egg carton with bright wrapping paper. Line the individual cells with candy wrappers or shredded coconut. Nestle homemade treats inside each. Include the carton in your next care package or birthday gift, and rest assured the treats will arrive intact.
Golf ball caddy
An egg carton in your golf bag is a great way to keep golf balls clean and ready for teeing off.
From ThisOldHouse.com
Fire the grill. Melt candle scraps in a double boiler, then fill each cup halfway with sawdust. Carefully ladle the wax over the sawdust, and let it cool. Each cup can now serve as a fire starter—just light the edge.
Manage a farm. Torn up, egg cartons are a great food source in worm farms. If the soil mix is too moist, add dry carton pieces. Too dry? Dunk them in water first.
From RoseAcre.com
Statistics shows that the average American family of four uses just 1.5 lbs of foam egg cartons a year. You can ship 2 lbs from anywhere in the U.S. for under 4.00 via the U.S. Postal Service. Ship your CLEAN foam egg cartons to:
DOLCO PACKAGING
2110 Patterson Street
Decatur, IN 46733
Of course you don't have to store them all year ... mail them anytime and the box and cartons will be recycled. Post-consumer polystyrene is used to produce new egg cartons, school lunch trays, insulation board, desk accessories, etc.(Polystyrene Foam Egg Cartons are classified as a #6 Recyclable).
Also - if you have local farms, ask if they'd want to reuse them directly.
Use for storing and organizing
With a dozen handy compartments, egg cartons are a natural for storing and organizing small items. Here are some ideas to get you going. You're sure to come up with more of your own.
Instead of emptying the coins in your pocket into a jar for later sorting, cut off a four-section piece of an egg carton and leave it on your dresser. Sort your quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies as you pull them out of your pockets. (Dump pennies in a larger container, such as a jar, or put them in a piggy bank.)
Organize buttons, safety pins, threads, bobbins, and fasteners on your sewing table.
Organize washers, tacks, small nuts and bolts, and screws on your workbench. Or use to keep disassembled parts in sequence.
Keep small Christmas ornaments from being crushed in handy, stackable egg cartons.
Start a fire
Fill a cardboard egg carton with briquettes (and a bit of leftover candle wax if it's handy), place in your barbecue grill, and light. Egg cartons can also be filled with tinder, such as small bits of wood and paper, and used as a fire starter in a fireplace or a woodstove.
Start seedlings
An egg carton can become the perfect nursery for your seeds. Use a cardboard egg carton, not a polystyrene one. Fill each cell in the carton with soil and plant a few seeds in each one. Once the seeds have sprouted, divide the carton into individual cells and plant, cardboard cells and all.
Make ice
Making a bunch of ice for a picnic or party? Use the bottom halves of clean polystyrene egg cartons as auxiliary ice trays.
Reinforce a trash bag
Yuck! You pull the plastic trash bag out of the kitchen trash container and gunk drips out. Next time, put an opened empty egg carton at the bottom of the trash bag to prevent tears and punctures.
Create shippable homemade goodies
Here's a great way to brighten the day of a soldier, student, or any faraway friend or loved one. Cover an egg carton with bright wrapping paper. Line the individual cells with candy wrappers or shredded coconut. Nestle homemade treats inside each. Include the carton in your next care package or birthday gift, and rest assured the treats will arrive intact.
Golf ball caddy
An egg carton in your golf bag is a great way to keep golf balls clean and ready for teeing off.
From ThisOldHouse.com
Fire the grill. Melt candle scraps in a double boiler, then fill each cup halfway with sawdust. Carefully ladle the wax over the sawdust, and let it cool. Each cup can now serve as a fire starter—just light the edge.
Manage a farm. Torn up, egg cartons are a great food source in worm farms. If the soil mix is too moist, add dry carton pieces. Too dry? Dunk them in water first.
From RoseAcre.com
Statistics shows that the average American family of four uses just 1.5 lbs of foam egg cartons a year. You can ship 2 lbs from anywhere in the U.S. for under 4.00 via the U.S. Postal Service. Ship your CLEAN foam egg cartons to:
DOLCO PACKAGING
2110 Patterson Street
Decatur, IN 46733
Of course you don't have to store them all year ... mail them anytime and the box and cartons will be recycled. Post-consumer polystyrene is used to produce new egg cartons, school lunch trays, insulation board, desk accessories, etc.(Polystyrene Foam Egg Cartons are classified as a #6 Recyclable).
Also - if you have local farms, ask if they'd want to reuse them directly.
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