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Step 1
Use a four-section piece of an egg carton to sort change as you take it out of your pocket. You can drop pennies into a larger container or a piggy bank since they add up so quickly.
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Step 2
Organize buttons, safety pins, bobbins, snaps, closures and other small items on your sewing table. Remove the lid from the egg carton so you can quickly see what you need. Do the same on your workbench with washers, tacks, small nuts and bolts and screws.
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Step 3
Keep tiny Christmas ornaments from being damaged by storing each one in a separate compartment of an egg carton. Wrap each one in a bit of tissue to keep it snug in its compartment.
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Step 1
Create a shipping container for homemade goodies for a college student, soldier or faraway friend. Cover the egg carton with bright paper or fabric and line the individual compartments with coconut or candy wrappers, and then fill with homemade treats. Include the carton in your next care package.
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Step 2
Reinforce a trash bag by putting an open egg carton in the bottom of the new bag. The egg carton will prevent tears and punctures, so there will be no more goop leaking out when you remove the bag.
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Step 3
Start seedlings in a paper egg carton (not the polystyrene type). Fill each compartment with soil and a few seeds. Once the seeds have sprouted, divide the carton into the individual cells and plant them - carton and all - in the ground.
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Step 4
Make a fire-starter by filling a cardboard egg carton with charcoal briquettes and placing it in the grill. Add a little leftover candle wax. Light the carton. You can also fill a cardboard egg carton with kindling and use it to start a fire in the fireplace.
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Step 5
Use the bottom half of a polystyrene egg carton as a makeshift ice cube tray when need to make extra cubes and don't have enough trays.
