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Oh MY! Trampolines!!

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creative permie uses for old jeans

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Upcycling mismatched socks

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Making a shoulder bag from paper

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uses for soup cans

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Re-purposing old hoses into pretty/useful things

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Creative ideas and uses for parts from broken washers or dryers -

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Upcycling October - what will you make?

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Pill bottle reuse

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Improvising, making, or sourcing DIY (do-it-yourself) garden cloches

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Upgrading a standing lamp to be a battery powered lamp that charges by usb?

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Laundry soap containers

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retrofit a water cooler to a bed cooler?

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How to Repurpose Your Real Christmas Tree

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How to reuse a tin olive oil can?

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For what would you use these jars?

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Dead solar panels reuse ideas

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Akiko Ike's Boro/Sashiko embroidery

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what to do with old oak barrel staves?

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old rusty nails

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Laminate wood floor boards

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upcycle restaurant table-top convection oven?

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How to extract sheets from aluminum cans?

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Folding tripod as A frame level

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Uses for old metal filing cabinets

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Above ground pool into green house or yurt

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Makeshift Gardening Tools: Getting more use out of things you already have on hand

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Window Samples

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A rather extreme scrap wood project....

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Different kind of 55 gallon barrel bed

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What to do with Feather Comforter ?

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Soup cans

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Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

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$4 shock absorbing record player base from a couple two-by scraps and 4 discarded squash balls

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Making stuffed animals with repurposed materials

3 weeks ago 13 replies 2 6

Above ground pool into green house or yurt

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creative permie uses for old jeans

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Upcycling mismatched socks

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ancestral skills

What creative things do you do with bones?

2 months ago 55 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 35 21

greenhouses

Upcycled trampoline greenhouse

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art

Palette Grey - how to stop wasting oil paint

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Raised Beds From Bike Wheels

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art

Best (foodsafe) paper mache paste recipe? And other advice.

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retrofit a water cooler to a bed cooler?

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greenhouses

Making a sustainable greenhouse without disposable plastic

3 months ago 53 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 13 32

Laminate wood floor boards

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Neat Idea for a Fountain

4 months ago 8 replies 4

Raised bed with hoops from bike rims and crutches.

4 months ago 8 replies 4 6

cottage industry

Walking sticks

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What to do with Feather Comforter ?

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Makeshift Gardening Tools: Getting more use out of things you already have on hand

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music

Making a Concertina from reclaimed materials?

5 months ago 4 replies 1 8

recycling

unusual uses for 55 gal drums (plastic or metal)

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music

Cigar box guitar and variations

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old rusty nails

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sewing

The Great A'tuin gets a makeover

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making your own clothes?

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Oh MY! Trampolines!!

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Use for Old Laptops

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Uses for pallets

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A rather extreme scrap wood project....

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Making More Use of Mason Jars

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uses for soup cans

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a tiny little decorative box made from an aluminum can

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Different kind of 55 gallon barrel bed

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upcycle restaurant table-top convection oven?

7 months ago 12 replies 2 6

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Old Guitar strings

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Unwinding and repurposing barbed wire

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ponds

Poor man's natural swimming pool using just floating planters alone!?

8 months ago 22 replies 4 3 8

Uses for old metal filing cabinets

8 months ago 3 replies 1 3

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Plastic Drum Wood Pile- Mobile Firewood Racks

8 months ago 1 reply 2 1

Creative ideas and uses for parts from broken washers or dryers -

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any use for a bunch of styrofoam?

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tiny house

Tiny house build in Hokkaido

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ponds

Ponds, toads, and slugs.

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Repurposed cotton fabric

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