After I made the choice to go down the homesteading path, considered one in all my fast responses to this way of life change was to see what objects is prone to be repurposed and used. Due to I really like canning and preserving my very private meals I had an extreme quantity of Mason jars laying spherical and wished to discover a technique to repurpose these so that they are extra smart (fairly than merely sitting in a space for the following time I can meals),
These beautiful glass Mason jars are the epitome of homesteading and I’ve discovered them to be, by far, considered one in all my favourite repurposing/upcycling duties.
Correct proper right here’s a not-so-fun truth: Are you conscious that it takes glass over 1 million years to decompose? Which signifies that, if dealt with precisely, it under no circumstances wears out and may be reused an infinite quantity of occasions.
The itemizing beneath are strategies whereby I discovered to reuse my glass jars. Some are for added storage and a few for extra good capabilities.
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- Use the jars to retailer leftovers and you’ll not have to fret about plastic chemical substances seeping into the meals.
- An earlier spaghetti glass jar is probably going for use to retailer do-it-yourself dry bean soup mixes, sugar, flour, and plenty of others.
- Use them as ingesting glasses.
- For a incredible yard border, flip them the inaccurate method up and bury them in a row.
- They’re typically made into distinctive lanterns with an frequently candle or a citronella candles positioned inside to maintain up the mosquitoes away all by way of the summer time season months.
- Glass jars are an stunning instrument to get plant cuttings began. Merely take the slicing, dip it in Rootone, and plant it in an outstanding potting medium. Water it accurately, and place it in your glass jar in a sunlit home.
- Use them in your storage to retailer nails, screws, tacks, bolts, and plenty of others.
- Use them in your craft room to retailer ribbon, brads, eyelets, stickers, buttons, markers, and plenty of others.
- Glass jars make unimaginable reward containers. You possibly can fill them with the substances to make cookies, brownies, pancakes, scorching cocoa, tea, and plenty of others. After you place the lid onto the jar, enhance it with a chunk of material.
- Make them into distinctive image frames. Insert your image, place the lid on the jar, and alter it the inaccurate method up. It’s a unimaginable technique to strengthen a shelf or a ledge. (Observe: This isn’t going to be an excellent suggestion if in case you will have infants.)
- It is worthwhile to make use of glass jars to handle Betas (Siamese Stopping Fish). These fish don’t require an air filter.
- Create a terrarium for African violets, orchids or herbs.
- Fill your jar with potpourri and interweave battery-powered tea lights or decor lights. Place the wire out of the as soon as extra and put a rubber band or ornamental ribbon spherical to carry the wire in place. While you plug all through the lights, the warmth disseminates the potpourri’s scent. (Observe: Everytime you use Christmas lights as an alternative of battery-powered tea or decor lights, then don’t go away the plugged in jar unattended.)
- Fill a large jar up with water and a few tea baggage and place it out all through the photograph voltaic for some Photograph voltaic Tea.
