I love to repurpose vintage and other containers as wastebaskets. I use a vintage syrup tin for dryer lint & fabric-softener sheets in the laundry room and in my sewing nook, a vintage wicker bicycle basket sits on my table for cut threads and fabric scraps.
I have a few more unique wastebaskets around the house and wrote about it on my post over at SC Johnson’s Family Economics HERE!
ever the creator of another clever idea.
thank you for suggesting a direction for managing our household clutter nicely.
xow.
Great picture! A little blast from my past as a western Canadian kid, no home was without the infamous Roger’s Syrup Can! I have it in my own home too, it just comes in a squeeze bottle now…:0(
love the tin and the idea of the bike basket.
I must have at least 500 different containers that I could use for this purpose…and never ONCE thought of doing it.
THANK YOU..what a great idea. I am forever collecting lint from on top of the dryer, where my husband leaves it when he does a washload. (* Yep, he does his own laundry at times ) .
Two things he HATES to do, is throw the lint away..and wash dirty pots and pans. But I do believe I can “train” him to put it in a container on top of the dryer….GREAT IDEA !!!
Our laundry rooom is not big enough to have a waste basket in it too.
Rose
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Used dryer sheets work great for cleaning dry-erase boards. A teacher trainer told us one sheet would work for a year on a small board.
Oh, wow, it’s so crazy seeing that syrup tin on your blog. My great grandfather started Rogers sugar and I think everyone in the family was sad when the cans went out of production. You might think being a food container they had to be a special item, but nope, same cans as paint. We have a tradition in the family of taking photos of kids potty training on the cans! Really, it’s much cuter in person!
NO WAY!!!!! What a wonderful bit of history!! And cute story about potty training. Sweet tradition! Thank you for sharing.
Just stumbled upon our site the other week and love it!! Your ideas are amazing and I can’t wait to read more!
I even gave you a blogger award on my site today – to accept it go here…
http://www.the-mom-blog.com/2011/01/pass-it-on-blogger-award.html
love your art – I am a lable and word lover so I collect them!