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You know, the small orang or yellow bags which prepackged onions sometimes come in.

I've been keeping these for some while as I'm pretty sure they'd last for ever in landfill and there must be something useful I can do with them.

1. sewn or tied as large areas: bird netting for crops
2. filling a cushion (?!)

More ideas please.

3. I store my home grown onions in them!!!

4. hairnet

5. decorate gifts/parcels with them (tied into bows etc)

6. Tied onto a wire coat hanger and fashioned into a small net for transfering small fish (goldfish) into another recepticle when cleaning out

7. Used as a base to tie individual strands of wool to to make a kids dressing up wig

kind thoughts
Deb

8. I keep my eco balls in one (which might have been an orange net originally, not onion...)

put a bar of soap into one - maybe folded over a couple of times - makes a great soap holder and combined body rub - makes lots of foam from a tiny bit of soap and saves the soap going all mushy too.

Trainee juggler's net

Collect lots of small net bags and tie at edges to make a net about 2m diameter with a hole in the middle surrounded by elastic and place around the waist.

This invention is of world-changing significance as it obviates the necessity of continually bending to pick up the balls being juggled. The outer edges should be attached higher than the waist so the balls descend to within easy reach.

I'd love to see a photo if you make one.

sew enough together and you have a perfect hammock

Safety net for fruit? To catch windfalls and dropped apples during picking before they hit the ground.

I might try to rig up something for picking blackcurrants. Mine are pretty small and as I strip the fruit and try to contain it all in my hand to transfer to a container I always lose some. A netting 'funnel' under the hand connected to a wide flexible tube feeding the container could catch it all and reduce unnecessary hand movements.

I've thought of this before but not tried it yet.

elfcurry wrote:Safety net for fruit? To catch windfalls...before they hit the ground.

I feel sure there's a joke to be made here involving Keith Richards falling out of a coconut tree.

I know I said they're typically orange but I had a black one recently with some lemons in and very nice they looked too.

This made me think.
This shows one but you can imagine the effect if I collected a few... http://www.grumpybadger.org.uk/pics/weedy/fishnet2.htm

gather together and sew up then use as a pan scrubber. Not tried this yet, but am going to. Suppose you could also make a body scrubber as well is you made it a bit bigger.

Kirsty you beat me to it! I keep all my little string bags - it's amazing how many I seem to collect from mini cheese for the kids' lunch boxes, satsumas, onions, fat balls for the birds, all kinds of things come in little string bags. Then I stitch them together for pan scrubbers. When they get full of mank I pop them in the dishwasher and they come out good as new, so I actually can't use them as quickly as I acquire the little bags.