Originally Posted by ptquilts
I actually recycle thread by taking old clothes apart, carefully, from one side of the seam and you can save the long piece of thread on the other side, wind it on a spool to reuse.
HAH - had you going there for a bit didn't I??!!
DH would do this, he is WAY cheaper than me...
LOL...my dad would have done this too. He used to save EVERYTHING and when he passed away we inheirited all of it. Baby food jars full of screws and washers from stuff that had to be thrown away...but he took everything apart and saved all of the metal pieces. He actually saved small pieces of wire and wound it around large spools. I think my parents saved every twist tie that was on bags of food. Even those plastic price tags with the little hole on the edge.
Both grew up during the depression so they knew how to save and reuse everything. I am kind of like them but nowhere near the extent that they were.