Ever since Party suggested using wine bottles as darling water holders, I've been wanting to share an eco-friendly tip of my own. If you're like me, you've got a surplus of plastic clamped clothes hangers sitting in your closet. I often return hangers to the dry cleaners, as a way to recycle them — but I save the ones with clamps, and turn them into chip clips.
It's beyond easy: carefully twist the clips off (or, if they're soft plastic, you can remove them with a sharp knife), and you've got a useful (and completely free!) clip for chips or anything else that needs preserving in your pantry. Have you ever done this before? What other upcycling or eco-friendly tips do you have for keeping a green kitchen?
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Love this idea! A lot of the time one of the clamps will break on my hanger and then it will be useless. Now I have something to do with the other clip!
1Brilliant!
2I save old wine bottle corks to store corn-on-the-cob holders. Just spear one holder into each end of the cork and toss into your gadget drawer. No more poked fingers when rummaging around for a spatula!
3fuzzles, that is brilliant! Thanks for the tip. Great idea!
4I use binder clips. They work great have a relatively low profile and I have drawers littered with them at work and home.
5Uh...clothespins work, too....you may know them as "solar dryer clips"...you remember clothes lines...before they were made illegal in some neighborhoods?
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