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Sounds really cool. I don't have any expertise to lend, really, but I hope you'll keep us posted on the growth of the project.

MuddyWitch wrote:The other reason we do it is they're acceptable in "smokeless" zones & hubby, daughter & her b/f catch different buses...loadsa Metros! (free papers).

btw we dry ours in the polytunnel

MW

What's a polytunnel?

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I was really pleased with my selfsufficientish wrapping this year. I got some brown and buff paper stuffed in with the pasta maker I bought off Amazon for my mum, and used that to wrap all my presenta. I made them look good by wrapping strips of red plastic bags like ribbons round them. I also make...

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. :) I see this site has a large UK crowd. If I end up using some American slang you don't recognize, feel free to call me on it and I'll try to explain myself better.

This may be a really stupid idea (I know nothing about knitting), but could you salvage yarn from items you find in a thrift store? I don't know how easy it would be to unravel something like that without damaging the material, but it might be a cheap alternative to buying the materials in raw form,...

My father used to sift out the clumpy bits, and use the leftover litter to level out the low spots in our dirt driveway. I seem to recall it was a clay-based litter, so no problems with nasty chemicals or anything.

How long do these burn, though? I would think that a paper log would burn down to ash much quicker than a wood log. I guess if you have enough supplies, you could make plenty of logs, but it seems like you'd be doing a lot of work to keep your fire going. Or am I just missing something?

We have a collection of gift bags in various sizes that we re-use every year (or at least until they get so worn out they aren't usable anymore). We use little stick-on name-tags, and just cover last year's name tag. Some of these bags have name-tags six or seven layers deep. :)

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Cut off the toe and you can use it as a jacket for a ferret or dachshund.

I keep a handful in the back of my car for use as wipe rags.

Sometime soon, I want to try an experiment to see how much I can reduce my waste in one week. I already do a lot of recycling and reusing of materials, but I wonder if I could get my family's weekly waste down to or close to zero.

Hi there. :)

Just thought I'd pop in; this forum looks like a good source of interesting conversation. Hope to talk to you all.