Born As..And Is Now...

There is something to be said for the vivid imagination. Recycling comes in many forms. When you ask a person if they recycle they can answer in a hundred different ways, more specifically what it means to them. Some will say, oh yea, I put the newspapers out every week, or another will say, oh yea, all my leaves are in a pile out back. Still others will tell you that they wash all their cans and go to the recycling center every Saturday.

The kind of recycling I am referring to is the kind that takes something that was made and sold for one specific purpose and has found its way to another lifetime. For example, using shredded paper in the litter box instead of cat litter, using milk crates for the base of a desk top, using an old wooden screen door in the house instead of on the back door to allow for circulation, yet confining four legged creatures to a space in the house. Sheets double as furniture covers, and door hangings (substitute or temporary doors),old bookcases double as cupboards for dishes and vise verse. I had an old Rubber Maid laundry on-the-wall storage cabinet I took the back and bottom off of and used it to cover the doggy door to the outside in my back room, It is great! When I want to keep them in or out I just shut the cabinet doors. In winter keeping them closed keeps the snow out.

Plastic soda bottles with a few hole make great garden watering appliances, old crock pot inserts with a hole drilled in the bottom make great outdoor planters because they are heavy enough for keeping the plant upright in a rain storm. Cardboard boxes were the greatest toy ever invented for both the human child and feline. Old plastic quick microwave meal dishes make great cat and dog dishes.

Old mobile homes painted red equal barn for storage, and unroad worthy semi-trailer trailers equal storage. Old bunk bed under the mattress support pipes equal very nice plant supports. Old tent screen doors make nice replacement screens for windows and doors. I once used the blades off an old celling fan and attached them to a ford tractor generator and made a windmill to generate electric to run a night light.

It does not have to be fancy to do the job. You do have to be over the "gotta have it new" phase, and you have to be willing to hear the "wow, how did you come up with that?"

All these recycling projects will need a tool or two, always use the right tool for the job and use it for its intended purpose. Protect your eyes and ears if using power tools. You only have one set.

.....we're all in this together....

Deb

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