Repurposing household items for a second life stretches your budget and aligns with recycling and a sustainable life. You can reuse almost anything in your home. So instead of throwing things away, try some of these ideas:

Bathroom

1. Cut up old towels into garage cloths which are perfect for washing cars
2. Old toothbrushes can go in your cleaning tools basket — great for grout
3. Empty cleaning product spray bottles and fill with water + vinegar for mirrors and windows
4. Toilet paper tubes can be turned into bird feeders and seed starters
5. Empty tissue boxes can be filled with plastic shopping bags for easy dispensing
6. Use old dryer sheets like tough paper towels

Kitchen

1. Turn empty milk jugs into watering cans
2. Turn empty 2-liter bottles into giant cooling blocks for your cooler when frozen
3. Empty condiment squirt bottles are great for other sauces or even pancake batter
4. Use old cardboard as a layer in your garden to prevent weeds
5. Save old bread bags to store your own homemade baked goods
6. Turn egg cartons, muffin tins, takeaway containers into garden seed starters

Other items

1. Repurpose old wallpaper and wrapping paper scraps into drawer liners
2. Use old jar candle containers as pretty toiletry dispensers (cotton balls, etc)
3. Left-behind socks make easy dusting mitts
4. Worn out sheets make great garden plant covers for cold weather