Posted by Snow in How to Recycle Home Junk Into Useful Stuff
It’s time for a bracing reality check: Most of us have stuff in our homes that needs to go. Whether it’s hiding in the closet, tucked away in the top shelves, or boxed in the corner of the garage, it’s time has come. Those old boxes of stuff you never use can come out of the darkness and be free!
Using Freecycle, public charities, re-use portals or recycling resources through home project adaptation, the time has come to get rid of the junk. Yes, we’re talking about all that stuff you walk by, trip over, move to the side while getting to the other stuff. We’re talking about all that stuff that obscures your vision from the stuff you are trying to find.
Don’t spend one more day looking at the junk. Get rid of it. Re-use it. Recycle it. Freecycle it. Sort it and administer the proper recycling means and methods to get rid of your junk. The planet is ready, even if you may feel you are not. Here’s the stuff and how to get rid of it.
1. Old Golf Bag of Clubs
Ye Gods everyone has at least one of these in the garage. The first few years the clubs and the bag is in good condition, but then comes the dark times. The bag is dirty, grimy, dusty soiled and it’s not worth your time to clean. The family golfer may get out once or twice a year, or never.
Solution: Use it as a potting or garden wagon to move your supplies to whatever working end of the yard is being cultivated.
2. Old Sheets/Linens
Old sheets preserved in the august cleanliness of your linen closet have to go. Re-washed towels and mismatched sheets of varying condition stack the shelves. But you have few guests and little need for the stuff.
Solution: These sheets make excellent beach bags and laundry bags and even book bags and reusable grocery bags. Thinks how many dolphins you can save stitching a simple drawstring grocery bag with added strength for walking home from the farmer’s market. Towels can become cleaning rags.
3. Old Furniture
Have a lot of grandma’s old stuff lying in storage, hiding in the attic, or bumping your shins whenever you open the closet? This junk has come to its restful end. Sort by wood condition and hardware removability.
Solution: Find a green or sustainable wood craftsman and donate the wood to his new project. Mid-century and midmodern furniture has enjoyed a retrospective. For a more modest solution, convert the furniture to a clothes drying rack. Saw and sand and re-use until your green energy saving clothes drying rack is ready for use.
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