Let's go shopping in our back yard and in our home. Sounds strange, huh?

Yes, city people have a hard time with the outdoors part of the question. But some apartments in NY City have gardens on the roof tops and some even are getting or have entrance ways with plants. Some people in cities have wide enough window sills to grow radishes or herbs. Sometimes weeds grow in sidewalks and sometimes they are useful plants.

I have seen jewelry on etsy made from old parts of discs and things from people's homes, too. Some keyboard keys are being cut down and made into necklaces using the keys to spell out people's names or their favorite number(s). It's good that you bring up recycling computer-related items here. Thanks and take care.

Oh Darn, I forgot about the sticks for making picture frames and other things. What else do you use mint for? I've used it for ant repellant, forgot about that. And willow trees, pussywillow for a short period of time and salycillic acid (aspirin). Yeah, sticks could be used as paint stirrers and after a fashion, measuring sticks.
I like the popcorn computer chair and trash baskets.
I think this will be a fun topic. I'll learn and remember more.

Put a bundle of mint in a cheesecloth bag and put it in your bath water when you want to cool down; it also makes a good foot bath when your feet are hot and tired. It's a breath freshener and you can make mint syrup for ice cream by making a very strong tea, then adding water and boiling it to the soft ball stage.
I agree this could be a fun discussion!

I haven't done the foot bath or the mint tea on ice cream. I was thinking about maybe making mint ice cream or chocolate mint someday. Thanks and take care!

Thanks for "best response!":)

Terrific! Keep up the good shop at home work. Hope these ideas inspire others. Thanks and take care.

What animals have you got?
Have you ever seen the book about using every part of deer possible? Soap, sinew, etc. It's an intersting book.
Now you're thinking, straw hats. That's a different one, thanks and take acare.

Our animals couldn't be skinned, or well I guess they could but they wouldn't like it! We have dogs and a cat. Lol, we live in the country so we have wild animals around us, a farm across from us, but no farm animals ourselves. Never heard of the book.

Yes, please don't skin your cats and dogs. Good for you, living in the country, getting to be fewer and fewer of us!

I think my grandmother's envious, lol, but yes I love it here!

Water and rose petals in a jar, shake every few hours. I would fill a jar with the rose petals. Then strain the petals out. You can do it hot or cold, cold in fridge, hot by solar tea method. Try one of each and see what you think. Make sure they haven't been sprayed with anything and that the fertilizer is natural or organic. I wouldn't keep past three days in a refrigerator. There are tons of uses of rosewater, for the bath, perfume, and cooking.

If you search "uses of roses" and "rose recipes," you'll find lots of neat stuff. Thanks and take care.

So I could just take the roses from my yard...

Do you know anything about taking cuttings from rose bushes and starting new ones?

No, I bought my house with a bunch of roses and raspberry bushes already here. If I wanted to know something like that, I would search Cooperative Extention Roses and see what came up. Take care.

If your roses haven't been sprayed with herbicides or pesticides or fertilized with bad stuff, you can use the petals from the roses you have outback.

Those roses have barely even had water over the years. I hope to spend some time pruning and feeding them this weekend.