6 Things Worth Repurposing Before You Put Them in the Bin

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Most repurposing advice fails the same test: the result is worse than the thing you would have bought, so it sits in a corner looking like a project until it goes in the bin anyway. The six below are different, because each one produces an object you would genuinely have paid for.

They also happen to solve storage problems that most homes have. Between them they replace perhaps $150, CA$210 or £120 of purchases a year in an average household, and they cut what leaves the house as waste. Each takes under an hour, and none needs a workshop.

1. 1. Glass jars for the pantry, the workshop and the fridge
2. 2. Old t-shirts and towels as cleaning cloths
3. 3. Wooden crates and pallets as open shelving
4. 4. A retired ladder as a rail, rack or plant stand
5. 5. Tins, bottles and containers for the garden and the kitchen
6. 6. Broken furniture as a hallway bench, a planter or a desk

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