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Looking for ideas - what can this be used for?

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Tank possibilities

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Repurposing a $6.99 thrift store side table...

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Upcycling 30 gallon barrels from carwash - what is your opinion?

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Help! How do you tell a chemical from the label?

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Don't throw that work jacket away!

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Idea for a pallet dismantling tool

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Uses for old metal filing cabinets

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Reused Containers for Food Storage

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What to do with all these cans???

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I need ideas

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Old Guitar strings

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Upcycling plastic bags into sleeping mats

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Got hose? Got sticks? Build a dome!

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How to source 5 gallon water bottles?

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FlowerHenge! Function stacking weirdness

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4 old toilets. Ideas for water basin?

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Old cart becomes a seed station

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Old bricks

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Gloves as safety glasses holders

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Cute garden sign idea!

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Evil Organic Milk Containers

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Raised bed with hoops from bike rims and crutches.

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Suggestions for recycling on our barren homestead?

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Dryer Rollers: what could I make with them?

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Roofing Slate - Reuse ideas?

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Recycled Sewing Workshop Tour

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Directions for Food Dryer made from a Refrigerator?

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Cam makes a Machete from Scrap...because why not

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Anyone use Hazelnut Wood?

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Dog pen - a personal project

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Bicycles,angle grinders, and flexible shafts...

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Dirt Hatchet - Higher Uses for Low-End Tools

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Upcycling magazines? any ideas

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Upcycling well pressure tank?

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Homemade glassware

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Unhoarding

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Glass bottle cutting

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How to un-galvanize a galvanized wash tub?

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Above ground pool into green house or yurt

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What is a new purpose for these? Ideas?

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Guitar strings

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Upcycling a swiffer-type mop

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De-hoarding (properties) : At what point to draw the line?

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

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I wish there was a 'trading market' like an ebay for upcycleables... : P

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A few days of shopping

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sewing an "A-shirt" or camisole from an unwanted T-shirt

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DIY Tiller

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upcycled food- interesting article

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Making a dog bed new again

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Never Lose Glasses in the Workshed Again

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Window Samples

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Garbage cans or buckets into giant Olla

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Old skis into new yurt, and what else?

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Using bamboo to the very end.

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Best substitutions?

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Any ideas on waterproofing cardboard?

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Moped Trailer from Repurposed Materials

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Gardening backpack

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