Materials, Pt. 2

I will call this one…Materials Pt. 2, and it will continue from the last post because it is such a fantastic topic and I have a bunch of random ideas for it.  So here are some:

Never throw away anything that comes out of your printer.  Put it in a box labeled “scratch paper.” You can use the blank back of an entire sheet as scratch paper, or cut them up into squares and with some double-sided tape.  There you go, makeshift notebooks and post-its!

When getting an iced drink at a coffee shop, bring your empty cup home, wash immediately, and store.  These can serve as the perfect cups for parties, beer pong, fooling your friends by making homemade coffee and telling them you brought them some Starbucks, or every day use like jars (as mentioned in a previous post).

Cardboard boxes, in all shapes and sizes.  They can be used to wrap presents in (and always bring a laugh, especially when wrapped in a Count Chocula box), for storage, to prevent you from getting dirty when going under your car to fix it, to slide down outdoor cardboard slides, making awesome forts, etc etc.

Shopping bags.  They can be used to line your personal waste baskets.  They’re great for throwing away stuff when spring cleaning.  They’re awesome lunch boxes and people won’t make fun of you for not having a proper box because people buy lunch at grocery stores all the time.  They can also be used to make awesome plastic soldier parachutes, and for transporting food to your next Pot Luck BBQ.

The possibilities are endless.  Get creative, have fun, be random, save lots of money.

Happy material improvisation!