This week at Re-nest, we’ve gotten into re-use. Wooden shipping pallets, it turns out, can be used to make entire buildings, storage sheds—even the chair seen above. We also re-colored a duvet cover with $10 of Rit dye, and we learned that certain stores love to take packing peanuts back for re-use.
Trent has uncovered a crazy futuristic milk container—are you ready to buy milk in plastic bags? And Stephanie, who long ago rebuffed her electric dryer, is looking for space-friendly ideas to supplement her overloaded drying rack in her cozy apartment. Links below the jump...
It turns out some businesses will gladly take used packing peanuts for re-use...
Dyeing in a washing machine: greener than replacing a duvet.
Stephanie needs help! What's your trick for drying clothes without giving your entire home over to drying racks?
According to our commenters, milk in bags isn't such a new idea, but it's still new to us... we guess we better get used to saying "a loaf of bread, a bag of milk, and a stick of butter."
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Comments (7)
The link for the "milk in bags" article points to the overloaded drying rack page...
In Ontario (and all of Canada for all I know) we have been buying bags of milk for 20 years. Once you get used to it it is really very convenient. And yes, we do say "pick up a Bag of Milk.."
They've been selling milk in bags in Argentina for a long time as well, since the early 90's at least. It worked perfectly fine.
Yup, bagged milk is old school in Canada. It's easy to use so don't fret at the idea of losing your carton or jug.
I love the pallet chair, I think Pallets are good looking always trying to think of ways to use them.
My wife and I are both from the US, but we lived in Canada for several years.
There is a bit of a learning curve for bagged milk. You have to buy a pitcher and a cutter/opener for the bags. We also had one or two rather interesting mishaps/messes until we got the hang of the opening process.
Overall, though, bagged milk is a great idea, and we’ve often wondered why this hasn’t become common in the US.
And I reuse my milk bags - slit open, turned inside out and washed, they make very sturdy little baggies.