maydecnc

Oh, I’m so excited. We finally got the Christmas tree undecorated and disassembled this evening! In the process, I had a brilliant idea for reusing those wet wipes containers. I’m not talking about the baby wipes containers, although they would also work. The containers to which I refer are the Charmin/Cottonelle/Scott “adult” wipe containers. Sadly, sometimes it is cheaper to buy the container with the wipes than to simply buy the refill, so we had about 8 such empty containers distributed about the house, awaiting a use.

I used some of the containers as corrals for office supplies in my desk at my extremely cheap place of business. (They recently stopped subsidizing the soda and snack machines. That’s a boost for morale, lemme tell ya!) This latest use for wipe containers is even more helpful, given the post-holiday tear-down task we had. In order to make some of the more fragile ornaments a little more crush-proof, I wrapped them in bubble wrap or tissue and then placed them into a wipe container. After that, the containers stacked very nicely within a plastic storage tote. Sterilite is the brand name of the storage totes we have, but Rubbermaid also makes them.

Now, I know that one can buy special plastic boxes to house ornaments, but using the wipe containers within a storage tote performs a similar service at a much lower cost.

I would love to hear how you use your empty wipe containers! I am always looking for new uses for them.