More Repurpose, Recycle TT#10

Last week I shared some of the things that we repurpose around the homestead in Repurpose and Recycle TT#9. As promised, here is another list.

1. Last week I talked about our back decks. This is our side deck. Near us are some large TV towers. This is a platform used to ship part of one of the towers. Yes, we had permission to take it.






2. Another old tire makes a great swing for the kids.











3. Pardon my clutter. These shelving units and several others we have, came from my husband's former employer. When they shut the local location down, they were going to throw all of these away.






4. This is also from the TV tower. A shipping crate. If you enlarge the picture, you will see the call letters from the TV station. We are using it to store feed for the animals.






5. Sometimes we will get Whale- a- Pail type ice cream for parties or what not. We use these buckets for a number of things. Here one is serving as a compost bucket until the scraps are taken out to the pile. They also work well as little cleaning buckets for the kids, to freeze large batches of things like sloppy joes for parties, to carry animal feed, and to store crayons. Of course, you want to keep separate buckets for those you use for food and those you don't. Don't want your sloppy joe tasting like Pine Sol!

6. & 7. Tomato stakes made from scraps of boards from other projects. The best ties for your tomatoes are old pantyhose cut into strips.










8. An old coffee container holds Homemade Laundry Soap. Don't worry it is labeled on the lid. No chance of mixing the two up! Wouldn't that be a morning eye opener?!










9. Shopping bags are perfect liners for small trash cans.








10. We can't seem to manage to keep a full set of drinking glasses for more than a few months. Canning jars make great glasses. Tim actually prefers them, and no one has ever broken one!






11. I buy most of my spices at the bulk food store. They come in these containers which are perfect single size storage containers after the spices are gone. We use these a lot for baby sized servings, packed lunches, and packing dips for picnics.








12. This is Mamaw's, but since we live on the same property, I thought it was fair game for this post. This is an old time cream separator being used as a planter.









13. This is Mamaw's too, but one that I need. It was a sauerkraut
jar and is now brewing sun tea. I could use a few more gallon glass jars. Not sure I could talk the family into eating a gallon of sauerkraut though. Pickles maybe?

Thank you for joining me for this Thursday Thirteen. The meme is celebrating its 100th edition this week. Many thirteeners are sharing their thirteen favorite Thursday Thirteens. Should be good!