What kind of treasures can you make from trash?

I have saved my salsa jars and made candle holders out of them. I run a daycare and I bought sticky foam flowers, hearts and letters. For mothers day I let the kids decorate the jars~ I took the foam letters and wrote I (heart) MOM on them and they put flowers and hearts all around the jars. Then I took some aquariam stone and a votive candle and put it inside. The mom's loved them. I have also made these for friends but painted the outside of the jar with something I thought they might like.

You can make really nice candle holders from cans, they look nice when battered carefully with a hammer and burned carefully to make it look burnished and old. Boxes can be painted or sprayed and used to put presents in instead of buying wrapping papers. I did this last year and it worked really well. I made recycled tags and also wrapped the boxes in ribbons and string saved from packaged items. People receiving the gifts loved it!

When I first moved here, I needed a small table for a chair, so I used a cardboard box and covered it with contact paper the former tenants had left. To make it sturdier, I filled it with newspaper. With a scarf (thrift store napkin) over the top, it looks pretty good!

I thought of a few more things. I picked up some pine cones and made firestarters to use to start my wood burning stove. I put dryer lint in a muffin tin, then melted down some old candles and poured the wax over the lint and stuck a pine cone on top. They looked great in a basked on the hearth while they were waiting to be used and they made great gifts.

I made a birthday gift by cutting pictures of horses out of magazines. I found a trash can for $1.00 at the dollar store and glued the pictures all over it in a collage. It looked great! I also used magazine clippings to create some Christmas decoupage christmas ornaments.

Almost all of our old boxes go for storage. Instead of buying cabinets to place toys in, my parents saved up many of my brother's Huggies diaper boxes and used them as storage bins instead. At the end of every school year, I collect my large stack of returned papers, go through them and take out any sheets that have room for scratch work. There's a large pile of scratch paper we keep in the kitchen. My dad had, surprisingly, used an old (almost useless) CPU to create a DVD player. It worked quite well for around a year, after which we finally replaced it with a store-bought DVD player. This was fun, and I should pester him about how he did it.

some trash that can be recycle can be sold at a reasonable price that are cans,plastic and etc..and of course those that are not can be use as fertilizer by making a whole or a pit on the ground and let the trash be rotten for future uses..tetra packs can be recycled and made as bags and everything..as see it from one the shows in our local tv..even my neighbor made it( bags)..

Well to emphasize what baileycows said : Use Country Crock butter containers and Cool Whip Containers as tupperware Save the Grease from the frying pan and use it again Instead of throwing away cardboard boxes tear them down so you can reuse them later for gifts or if you need to move or put things into storage I can't think of anything else right off hand but I sure do hope this helps!

I can't think of any uses for my trash. I guess I am not that creative or I am lazy one. I do use lots of containers as tupperware instead of buying it.