You need to take advantage of these tips while you still can.
Make a sheath
Flatten a tube, duct tape one end shut and you have a perfect sheath for a picnic/camp knife. Use toilet paper rolls for smaller cutlery.
Make a fly and pest strip
Get rid of pesky flies and mosquitoes with a homemade pest strip. Just cover an empty toilet paper roll with transparent tape, sticky side out, and hang where needed.
Use as kindling and logs
Turn toilet paper tubes into kindling and logs for your fireplace. For fire starter, use scissors to cut the cardboard into 1/8-inch (3-millimeter) strips. Keep the strips in a bin near the fireplace so they’ll be handy to use next time you make a fire. To make logs, tape over one end of the tube and pack shredded newspaper inside. Then tape the other end. The tighter you pack the newspaper, the longer your log will burn.
Protect important documents
Before storing diplomas, marriage certificates, and other important documents in your cedar chest, roll them tightly and insert them in tubes. This prevents creases and keeps the documents clean and dry.
Start seedlings
Don’t go to the garden supply store to buy biodegradable starting pots for seedlings. Just use the cardboard tubes from toilet paper. Use scissors to cut each toilet paper tube into two pots. Fill a tray with the cut cylinders packed against each other so they won’t tip when you water the seedlings. This will also prevent them from drying out too quickly. Now fill each pot with seed-starting mix, gently pack it down, and sow your seeds. When you plant the seedlings, make sure to break down the side of the roll and make sure all the cardboard is completely buried.
Store fabric scraps
Roll up leftover fabric scraps tightly and insert them inside a card-board tube from your bathroom. For easy identification, tape or staple a sample of the fabric to the outside of the tube.
Store string
Nothing is more useless and frustrating than tangled string. To keep your string ready to use, cut a notch into each end of a toilet paper tube. Secure one end of the string in one notch, wrap the string tightly around the tube, and then secure the other end in the other notch.
Keep linens crease-free
Wrap napkins around cardboard tubes after laundering to avoid the creases they would get if they were folded. To guard against stains, cover the tubes with plastic wrap first.
Keep Christmas lights tidy
Spending more time untangling your Christmas lights than it takes to put them up? Make yuletide prep easier by wrapping your lights around a cardboard tube. Secure them with masking tape. Put small strands of lights or garlands inside cardboard tubes, and seal the ends of the tubes with masking tape.
Make a kazoo
Got a bunch of bored kids driving you crazy on a rainy day? Cut three small holes in the middle of a tube. Then cover one end of the tube with wax paper secured with a strong rubber band. Now hum into the other end, while using your fingers to plug one, two, or all three holes to vary the pitch. Make one for each kid. They may still drive you crazy, but they’ll have a ball doing it!
Make a hamster toy
Place a couple of toilet paper tubes in the hamster (or gerbil) cage. The little critters will love running and walking through them, and they like chewing on the cardboard too. When the tubes start looking ragged, just replace them with fresh ones.
Preserve kids’ artwork
You want to save some of your kids’ precious artwork for posterity (or you don’t want it to clutter up the house). Simply roll up the artwork and place it inside a tube. Label the outside with the child’s name and date. The tubes are easy to store, and you can safely preserve the work of your budding young artists.
Make English crackers
Keep the spirit of holiday firecrackers but cut out the dangers associated with burning explosives. Use toilet paper tubes to make English crackers, which “explode” into tiny gifts. For each cracker, tie a string about 8 inches (20 centimeters) long around a small gift such as candy, a balloon, or a figurine. After tying, the string should have about 6 inches (15 centimeters) to spare. Place the gift into the tube so the string dangles out one end. Cover the tube with bright-colored crepe paper or tissue and twist the ends. When you pull the string, out pops the gift.
Oh no....just what I need, another reason to worry.
It's not bad enough I think about all the plastic water bottles I use every day and weigh the balance of drinking precious tap water, now I need to think about my cardboard toilet paper rolls polluting the earth.
Scott is doing away with, or I should say eliminating the cardboard toilet paper tube.
Over 17 billion TP tubes are used each year. That's enough to fill the Empire State Building, twice.
And what will happen to future generations of forward thinking collectors like this guy?
According to Guinness (the records not the beer).
The Largest Collection of Used Toilet Paper Cardboard Rolls:
Wilson F. Wondermen has been collecting tubes for 21 years. He lives in California and has 15,330.
In the June 17 blog I mentioned MeUndies, yesterday I received a box from Amazon and inside that box was a cool MeUndies hat and a pair of underpants.
The inscription on the inside of the box reads; You are now part of the family.
I thank the MeUndies company for their generous gift and I would like to add I love the BMWi8.
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