“Old hair brush? Zip tie it to the leg of a chair for your cat to rub on!”
“Hokusai’s Great Wave, me, recycled foil on wood block, 2020”
“My wife put giant googly eyes on our trash can as a joke. But it’s actually working for our zero waste goals. Now I feel shame because every time I toss something, it looks horrified!”
"When you buy a real air freshener for your car"
"You don’t need to throw away that old pack of detergent. You can turn it into a great Halloween pumpkin instead."
“I rescued this Fiddle Fig from a dumpster in April. I think it likes it here.”
“Old Spice has a plastic-free deodorant container.”
“My grandpa made me a plant stand.”
“I repurposed an old drum I got from an antique auction. I love it!”
“Ugly, but free and functional, zero-waste cable organization”
“My parents’ indoor jungle”
“Took some old pants and made them into this shirt! Don’t have a sewing machine so the whole thing is hand-sewn”
“I made my own hanging herb/plant wall for my balcony this year.”
“I knit a sweater made entirely of old/scrap yarns I had lying around.”
“Our brand new bed broke. I salvaged the wood, and turned it into a planter.”
“I think my living room is alive.”
“My aunt requested crocheted face scrubbies to replace her disposable cotton pads/balls. She asked for 24, so I put them in a repurposed candle container.”
“The welcome committee when entering my home”
Bonus: "When you’d given up hope on a dying plant, but then spot new growth"
Hopefully one is cats.
Amen.