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Originally Posted by Drue
(Post 4706922)
My DH takes my old ones and uses them in his shop. He put one on a top of a cabinet or something and he can use it when he needs to cut something with one of those retactable razor cutters that all guys have...LOL( I have a couple as well). He used one for a neighbor that wanted him to make a fish cleaning station for him...he screwed the edges down on a treated piece of plywood next to the sink for the cleaning station...works like a champ! Now they can clean the fish and not cut into the wood and it can all be cleaned and hosed off and be outside in the weather. I have also cut one into smaller pieces, using the sections that I didn't "use up" to have little cutting areas next to my machines and to carry with me when I need a small cutting mat.
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REALLY great ideas both on repurposing and on flattening!
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Wow, so many great ideas. I am so glad I did not throw my old one away! Thanks everyone!
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Originally Posted by IAmCatOwned
(Post 4710177)
If they are warped, they are useless. If you have a brand you don't like, offer it in a garage sale. All my quilting stuff with the exception of some thin fabrics, were snapped right up.
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I had my brother cut a circle out of one and glue it to an old lazy susan - free rotating cutting mat.
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What a lot of helpful advice. Thanks so much.
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I know that this is a stretch but donate them to a local high school, community college or university that has a sewing skills, fashion design or architecture department. I work at a university that has all three of those departments and I see cutting mats in all three areas. The students can always use more cutting surfaces in the classrooms. I found one mat in the trash last summer that was so old...."How old was it?" It was so old that... it had been used so much that the surface was not long flat but covered with ridges from the number of years of cutting, and cutting and cutting in the same areas.
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Cutting into smaller pieces and putting on one side and iron board in a notebook type cover for taking to class. They would make wonderful gifts and much more frugle than buying the expensive one Omni makes .
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use them for templates
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Now, that is championship recycling!
Originally Posted by deemail
(Post 4708466)
my fave is my warped board cut to fit the back of a cookie sheet...glued with contact cement so it is steady and flat now...inside the cookie sheet, i i put pc of cardboard, wrapped with old blanket and then covered with denim (my favorite ironing surface) ...then glued this all inside the cookie sheet...pin-able, ironable and cutable... and reclaimed a ruined board. I also have little ones for the end of my ironing board and inside my sewing kit.
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