With Clementine Season reaching a close we have accumulated at least 6 crates. Those wooden boxes are so wonderful, and I never throw them out. At the moment I am using them to hold individual projects-in-the-making in my craft room, and will probably continue to use them for that for a while.
There are other ways to use the clementine crates though. I have used them in the past as drawer organizers, since they are so short. I keep my cookbooks in one in my kitchen on top the fridge. And I know that Colleen used them for craft room organization in the past. Since I have more than I need this year, I will probably use the two extra I have for kindling in our fireplace since the wood is nice and dry and should catch fire quickly.
But all of those crates were easy to find purposes for. The challenge for me this year was what to do with the orange plastic nets that are on the top of them. Well, I zigzagged two of them together and sewed a strap onto it. Now we hang all of the bath toys in it for draining. But that only used two! Does anyone else have a creative use for them?
My mom used to take the red netting from onion bags and fold them into about 6 layers. Then, we would sew them together and use as scrubbies for the kitchen sink.
reusable produce bags to take to the grocery store?
I keep my onion bags, similar type of netting, and then knit them into “scrubbies” for the sink instead of buying the brillo pads. Could this work for that as well?
Good ideas. The produce bags would be really cool. I already get weird looks from my t-shirt bags.
And I need new scrubbies… You are all very helpful!
Would they work as birdfeeders? I use some net bags to hold either sunflower seeds or if they are really small openings, thistle seed. They wear out in one winter season, but it’s nice to increase the amount of birds I feed. Could one netting bag be sewed into a tube and hung with a strap?