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We had take-out food yesterday that came with a fistful of little ketchup sachets, but they're too fiddly for Steve to open. So this morning I opened all these tiny sachets and decanted them into our ketchup bottle.

Grace, I love you! That is super thrifty. Waste not, want not.

I keep all my condiments packets in a little plastic container for times I am making a picnic, making a lunch to grab and go, or in case my big bottle of something runs out.

Even the organizing guru at Alejandra.tv does that. I was glad to see it's a thing. I don't like people throwing those so thoughtlessly away.

Today I cut up a ratty old cotton bath towel into four square rags to use for cleaning.

Anything that is cotton and no longer in donate-able condition gets turned into rags for me.

Cotton is the next best thing for cleaning after microfiber, but the cotton rags this way are free, and absorbent, and wash up clean.

Waste not the cotton!

I save my aluminum foil from one use to the next, unless it's from something goopy and not worth cleaning off. I just dry them off if moist, fold them up, and put them in the bottom of one of my kitchen drawers.

I save all the wire twisties that come around food and electronics, for reuse. I really love the strong, clean ones that come around electronics cords.

I roll the little buggers up and put them in a space in the tackle box that I use for my office supplies. I use them for all kinds of things.

I reuse all my ziplock baggies.

I use them for food first, then wash them a few times...and when they aren't looking too good for food anymore, I use them for my office supplies, packing stuff for a trip, in the workshop or craft area, and even as a seed planter for starter plants.

Anyone reuse their ziplocks?

I reuse my ziplocks. Pretty much the same way you do. If I use them for the babies diapers, I write 'Diapers" on the bag really big witha Sharpie so they will not get used for anything else.

I cherish my ziplocks - reuse them for traveling - supplies and snacks - and in my everyday handbag - even for my small water bottle in my purse.

I bought one of those can openers that doesn't leave a sharp edge, and I reuse tin cans a lot now. I took them to my classroom to organize random school supplies. I have been using them as catch-alls at home. Then I started giving them to the kids for toys. I showed them the old-school telephone from cans, and this summer I am going to show them how to make can stilts. for my toddler, I just put a toy in a tin can and rattle it a bit. He loves the noise and will practice pulling the toy out and replacing it in the can.
All from a tin can!

Lisa, that's great!

I like the look of a tin can, minus the wrapper, to hold and gather things, to use as a vase, to plant small houseplants in. I like the clean lines and industrial look.