Help to recycle Folger Coffee Container
#11
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Decorate them and use to gift baked goods at christmas. Store cut to size (a la Bonnie Hunter) quilt scraps, one can full of asst. 2" squares is enough to make a baby size quilt. Sand buckets for kids. Keep toilet paper dry when you go camping.
#13
I salvaged some of them from guild meetings and I used them to hold paint. They make great portable disposable paint containers. It was easy to hold the container when doing the edge painting around the molding around the ceiling and base boards. I quilt saving all the nifty containers. It got where I had more saved stuff then reasons to save it! Now when I have an empty neat container I take it to guild. Someone will have a use for it. The Taster's Choice instant coffee container is worth buying just for the container. No lid to have to take off, it pops up with a push and closes with a push. We use them as thread/trim catchers for guild tables.
Last edited by BellaBoo; 12-08-2011 at 11:38 AM.
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Would they work to do the bucket tool holder? I've seen them done on a mug and a small bucket. Are your container the right size for something similar? Look on www.sewmanyways.com blogspot and see if they have been in a tool time tuesday tutorial.
#17
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Pensacola, FL
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Well, our lab has decided they make really good dog toys! She loves the handle grip part on the large can.
She bites that part, picks them up and runs around! That wasy she can see where she's going! She also uses
them like soccer balls!
She bites that part, picks them up and runs around! That wasy she can see where she's going! She also uses
them like soccer balls!
#20
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Location: chicago, IL
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I pour salt into them for use during the winter...I have a can at each door, so that I can sprinkle the salt on the sidewalk ice to make it go away...
It sure beats trying to lug the big 30# bag of salt to sprinkle on the sidewalks.
It sure beats trying to lug the big 30# bag of salt to sprinkle on the sidewalks.
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