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Hah!!!
Nobody uses black film containers anymore anyway!
Reuses, recycling, hints and tips
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 06:00 PM
Lol, only if you catch fireflies in it Miki
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Hah!!! Nobody uses black film containers anymore anyway!
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Hah!!!
Nobody uses black film containers anymore anyway!
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 11:37 PM
QUOTE (snapshotmiki @ Jun 26 2010, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Lol, only if you catch fireflies in it Miki
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Hah!!! Nobody uses black film containers anymore anyway!
I thought that myself. What could we substitute?
Nobody uses black film containers anymore anyway!#83
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 12:34 AM
How big are the black film canisters ? You mean those little ones ? The video was removed so I can't see it.
I have small black canisters my diabetes test strips come in with a flip top lid. I throw them away, but if that is what you want I can save them. Won't take much for postage to mail.
I have small black canisters my diabetes test strips come in with a flip top lid. I throw them away, but if that is what you want I can save them. Won't take much for postage to mail.
I can, you can, too !
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 04:31 AM
Violet is right. I use my canisters for storing small important items.
Practically airproof and sturdy.
They'd make for a good small stash container as well.
Practically airproof and sturdy.
They'd make for a good small stash container as well.
She looked at the wolf with a sweet smile . The wolf asked what was in her basket. `Food for Grandmother`she said..
She then opened her basket and took out a sawn off shotgun.
A few days later she walked through the woods in her new wolfskin furcoat...
Lesson learned, so not mess with girls who are brave enough to go into the woods on their own.
She then opened her basket and took out a sawn off shotgun.
A few days later she walked through the woods in her new wolfskin furcoat...
Lesson learned, so not mess with girls who are brave enough to go into the woods on their own.
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 05:08 PM
Girlnextdoor! Maybe black electrical tape. Or if I am not mounting it in the roof, maybe it isn't needed. Would be more like a lantern. Today it is cloudy so I will try tomorrow or whenever weather permits and let everyone know if it works.
Violet--I will see if I can pull this off without you making a trip to the post ofc.
Thanks
Violet--I will see if I can pull this off without you making a trip to the post ofc.
Thanks
John 14:27 ...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Job 13:15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?!
Miki
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Job 13:15 Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him...
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?!
Miki
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Posted 09 April 2011 - 12:32 PM
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)
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Posted 11 April 2011 - 09:04 PM
http://www.re-nest.c...plastics-027514
(Link to understanding which plastics are recyclable, and which are not)
(Link to understanding which plastics are recyclable, and which are not)
Edited by Cat, 11 April 2011 - 10:49 PM.
(wanted to include description of link)
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Posted 11 April 2011 - 10:48 PM
The video on the "solar lights" using the bottles and film canisters:
http://videosift.com...-NO-electricity
I loved it because I could understand what they were saying in Portuguese.
FUN!
These are just a basic solar tube that lets the light in when the sun is shining. They're mini skylights that are sometimes called "sun tunnels". http://suntunnelskyl...mer/productinfo
The guy in the video used 2-liter pop bottles filled with bleach water to keep it clear, then covered the lids with film canisters to seal the lids tightly or just protect it from the sunlight and deterioration. That way only the very top didn't let light in. The water-filled bottles were sealed into holes cut into the roof, where daylight streamed through into the building. You'd need to be sure they are well sealed so they don't leak.
In the video, they are shown in a business and in a home. But it's not a "fancy" home. It looks like a low-income home to me.
Another consideration when you don't live in Brazil is what cold winter weather would do to these.
I wonder if just air would be ok? It sure wouldn't have the expansion that water would. 
http://videosift.com...-NO-electricity
I loved it because I could understand what they were saying in Portuguese.
FUN!These are just a basic solar tube that lets the light in when the sun is shining. They're mini skylights that are sometimes called "sun tunnels". http://suntunnelskyl...mer/productinfo
The guy in the video used 2-liter pop bottles filled with bleach water to keep it clear, then covered the lids with film canisters to seal the lids tightly or just protect it from the sunlight and deterioration. That way only the very top didn't let light in. The water-filled bottles were sealed into holes cut into the roof, where daylight streamed through into the building. You'd need to be sure they are well sealed so they don't leak.
In the video, they are shown in a business and in a home. But it's not a "fancy" home. It looks like a low-income home to me.
Another consideration when you don't live in Brazil is what cold winter weather would do to these.
I wonder if just air would be ok? It sure wouldn't have the expansion that water would.
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Posted 12 April 2011 - 06:43 AM
http://lifehacker.co...old-bottle-caps
How to seal plastic bags with old bottle caps.
OR...............
You could just use a twist tie and recycle the bottle!
well duh!
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Posted 26 October 2011 - 11:21 AM
Maybe I am losing it but I had a mini brainstorm yesterday.
I have been saving prescription bottles from Target. I have used all I can for hobbies etc and realized I needed to throw some out. As I reached for the garbage, I saw the little rubber band around the neck. You can get this band in any color you want. Mine are purple. It is removable and voila...I now have napkin rings for free...lol.
Maybe I'll change my color and get a "set of napkin rings" in another color!
I have been saving prescription bottles from Target. I have used all I can for hobbies etc and realized I needed to throw some out. As I reached for the garbage, I saw the little rubber band around the neck. You can get this band in any color you want. Mine are purple. It is removable and voila...I now have napkin rings for free...lol.
Maybe I'll change my color and get a "set of napkin rings" in another color!
Tell Mom the cat did it!
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:46 AM
If anyone in your family uses syringes or blood testing lancets, instead of buying a plastic container to dispose of them in your trash..recycle a liquid laundry package. (I have my DIL save these for us since we still buy dry laundry detergent.)
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:36 AM
For those few of us here that still use an electric dryer [b](I KNOW, I KNOW I SHOULD LINE DRY!) No guilt complex here, instead of using dryer sheets to reduce static cling, dilute fabric softner (I use 1 part liquid softener to 5 parts water) and use small sponges. I soak the sponge in the solution, wring out the excess (over the recycled cottage cheese container I store my solution in) and toss the sponge in with my load of laundry to be dried. The sponges last for about a year and sure beats the bags of "disposable" dryer sheets I ended up collecting! (Those things are good for nothing but filling up land fills! I attempted to collect enough to make pillow stuffing out of, but the sponge solution is so much simpler and definitely less wasteful!)
From Philbe...I save my dryer lint and dryer sheets and stick them my used up toilet paper cylinders...they're great fire starters for our camp fire. I just spritz a little hand sanitizer on them, put a match to them, and they're off and burning! LOL
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Posted 06 November 2012 - 11:25 AM
Fixed brown rice last night for supper...had some of the mylar bags that I've saved from chips etc., so put the rest of the dried rice into what used to be a pretzel bag (that I had washed and dried previously) and used my vacume sealer to re-seal it, taped the "Rice" label from the plastic bag of rice onto the mylar bag and it's waiting for it's next meal. And yes, my food saver seals mylar fantastically, but only for smaller bags. I use a hair flat iron to seal the bigger bags.
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