101 Uses for old Wellingtons

[Steve Hanson]

Fiona and I are going through a pair of Wellingtons a year now that we spend our lives out in the garden, I just can’t bring myself to throw them out usually they have a minor leak or something like that so no good as water holding devices. So anyway I have had one idea flower pots, obviously they are a little on the tall side and unstable on there own, so I have pot riveted a pair together, then drilled the soul with holes for drainage. I filled them half full with stones for more stability and drainage then planted herbs in them.

However I now have a haunting image of my garden full of Wellingtons from the past, so any further ideas, would be help, and of course as all these subject are, a bit of fun.

[glenniedragon]

Fill with cement and use as quirky picket fence posts, kind of one welly at each end of a run of short fencing, you'd probably have to bolt the welly down to a post tooo..mmmm

kind thoughts
Deb

[Millymollymandy]

3. Tie them to the back of a 'Just Married' car along with those tin cans. It's what I did when my mum got remarried - bought two pairs from a charity shop!

[Shirley]

http://ecodesign.lboro.ac.uk/index.php? ... ection=177 You can send old wellies off for recycling!!

[Mandyz]

I have visions of a Welly Garden now... or at least a hedge of Welly plants...


If they didn't have holes I would recommend:

excellent for emergency use when you are driving through the Tigers of an outdoor safari park, the monkeys have just eaten the rubber off your brand new car, you can't go forward or backwards any quicker, your 6 year old daughter is literally turning yellow because she needs the loo, and your wife says to her "just pee in the seat if you have to" (because she REALLY has to go!). The child can simply pee in the welly and you can pour it out the window as you wave farewell to the tigers. Then you can even give it as a gift to your son in law at their wedding.

Just an imaginative idea... ... ...

[Shirley]

hahahahaha... pmsl at that one

I like the idea of the welly hedge actually.... it could be a moveable hedge!!

You could fill a pair with sand and use as a doorstop.

You could do the flowerpot thing and sell them??

Have a welly throwing competition.... !!

[albert onglebod]

cut the rubber into strips to use for hinges on homemade doors

[shiney]

Paint them and nail them to a wall with a house name on?

[albert onglebod]

Cut off the foot and then cut down the middle to make rubber roof tiles for sheds.
Actually I must make a note of that one as my shed is so leeky.

[ina]

I'd never heard there was a place that recycled them - I think it's a great idea - thanks for that, Shirley! Have to make that one known around here... As you can imagine, with 7 of us in wellies every day of the year, we have quite a through-put! And we all wear safety wellies, which seem to deteriorate even quicker than normal ones.

I always keep the best of the "holy" ones, in the hope that next time it's the other one that goes leaky first (it's usually just one...). I've also started planting them up; no need for making drainage holes (they have them already). and they seem to stand up quite well with a bit of gravel in the bottom. Haven't tried really tall plants yet, though. I thought they'd make a nice decoration for the outside of the farm office, a line of wellies with nasturtiums or so.

[ina]

Another idea: Use as stockings for Christmas...

[Chickpea]

I planted flowers in a pair of wellies that my 18-month-old niece grew out of (so they were really tiny and cute). I picked flowers that exactly matched the red of the wellies. Then I gave them to my dad because she's his granddaughter. He was over the moon.

You could use them on a scarecrow.

Or a Guy, on Guy Fawkes' night.

You could fill them with concrete or plaster and then cut the wellies off when it sets. Then you'd have a pair of concrete or plaster feet. Not sure what use it'd be but it sounds kind of cool. or you could fill them with water and freeze them and then you'd have ice feet. That's be really cool.


You could attach a handle and use one as a really quirky handbag.

[bazil]

cut the tops off and turn the soles into nifty sandals (possibly using the exess rubber as straps)

[ina]

Now that's an idea - why didn't I think of that before? I've been looking at those open wellie-type slip-ons, to get into quickly when you just want to pick something in the garden. They are pretty expensive, too. I'll make my own now! Thanks for that, Bazil! (They'll be even better than the ones you can buy, as they have steel toe caps - so my goats can trod on them without negative effects for the toes... )

[Shirley]

cut the tops off and turn the soles into nifty sandals (possibly using the exess rubber as straps)

That really is a good idea Bazil!!