Here are eight ideas to repurpose used items, tested and tried by BYUH students
How to reuse old clothes
Ema Heath, a sophomore from Pearl City, Hawaii, majoring in communication media & culture, shared two different ways she repurposes old clothing.
- Make scrunchies out of old shirts to hold your hair together.
- Make ice pack holders out of old shirts.
“I feel like you can do a lot with old clothing when it comes to repurposing it. It all depends on what you need,” said Heath.
Skyler Rasmussen, a senior from California majoring in computer science, shared a few ways he has repurposed and reused old clothing:
- Using old shirts as rags.
- Ripped shirts can be used as blankets.
- Make a drawstring bag out of an old shirt.
How to make a drawstring bag out of an old shirt, as explained by Rasmussen:
- Cut up an old shirt right below the arms
- Sew the top half of the shirt
- Cut two holes at the bottom lip of the shirt
- Cut up a cord and run it through the bottom lip of the shirt to use as a drawstring
- Tie it to two little holes at the bottom of the shirt. (By doing this you can wear it as a backpack.)
“There’s lots of creative ways to use old clothes,” Rasmussen shared.
How to repurpose old containers
Jeremy Brown, a freshman from Eagle Mountain, Utah, majoring in business management, shared ways to reuse food containers, glass jars and cardboard boxes.
- Reuse ice cream containers and tin cans to store other utensils, spices and other foods.
- Glass jars, such as ones that contain pasta sauce, can be repurposed as drinking glasses.
- Cardboard boxes can be used as storage for old clothes and to help in moving. He said people can use boxes to free up space in their dorms by placing them under their beds.
Brown said reusing plastic food containers is cheaper than rebuying new ones and limits disposing of them. “You can wash them and use them as many times as you like, said Brown.