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

Let's see, I think that people do need to make use of what's at home before going to the store. I can't really think of anything right now. We have tomatoes growing outside, we did have more of a garden last year but Deer ate it! lol! I guess though that would go along with preparing food. Straw can be used to make hats. Skins of animals to make clothing.

This is exactly what we were doing last night. We planted 1/2 envelope of roma tomatoes. They all grew well and needed to be transplanted into small pots until they can go into the garden. I had water bottles for recycling and we cut them in half. Then we cut some drain holes in the bottom of the containers, filled them with dirt, and put them in plastic trays that we saved from the chinese restaurant from down the street. We have quite a few plants from all this (around 70). We will be able to share this with neighbors and friends for an investment of less than ten dollars. Happy Mylotting!

Let me see... outdoors, lots of food, both in the gardens and wild. Rose water, bouquets, sticks and small branches for various things like stakes, paint stirrers, measuring sticks. Herbs to be used for medicine, mint for tea and other uses, rocks for markers... I know there's more. Inside, the same as you. Cloth, yarn, paper, boxes. Cans to be used as storage containers or planting pots or candle holders. I have cloth that can be used for cleaning rags, to make clothing or household linens or handkerchiefs as well as rags or woven or knitted items. When I need anything, my first impulse is to look around and see if I can make it. I have a footstool for my computer chair made from one of those popcorn tins. Those tins also make good small trash baskets. I have one in the bathroom, one in the office, one by the sewing machine and one in the bedroom. I'll think of more as soon as I post this. :)

I need to clear out stuff to let other people do the shopping, lol! I keep clearing out and the stuff keeps piling up. BTW, How do I make rosewater? How long can I store it?

I'm a student living in Hong Kong, and here in Hong Kong, land is so expensive that most people just live in flat..... So, most plants you mentioned won't appear in most home here in Hong Kong. I believe that's the case for some other busy cities in Asia too. (Like Tokyo) For indoors, besides what you mentioned, I can also think of CD boxes and old floopy disk (which nobody will use them to store data nowadays.) They can be used to made into different art works.