How to Reuse Cardboard Boxes - 12 Easy Ways

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By HS Schulte
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By reusing, we reduce waste! Look into your recycle bins and see which items you can reuse. Here are tips for reusing cardboard boxes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Break them down into flat pieces of cardboard. Tack them down with landscaping spikes in your garden to make weed free pathways through your plants.
Step 2

Save them for fire kindling.
Step 3

Save them to mail packages.
Step 4

EcoBox.com is an innovative website that buys and sells used moving boxes. You can buy moving boxes at 35% less than you would pay for them new, or you can sell your used boxes and earn cash! Best of all, you are reusing to reduce waste.
Step 5

Reuse cardboard boxes to store books or magazines, craft material, off-season clothes, items to donate to charity, or many other household items.
Step 6

Make puzzles. Use glue to attach your favorite photo to cardboard. With a very sharp utility knife, you can cut this into pieces to make a homemade puzzle.
Step 7

If you have large boxes, let your young children play and sit in them. Kids love cardboard playhouses!
Step 8

There are cute crafting ideas for cardboard at the following websites: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/box/
http://www.mycraftbook.com/List.asp?subcategoryID=50
Step 9

You can reuse a cardboard box as a temporary trash can while camping or traveling.
Step 10

Have you ever considered making a solar cooker? It is a wonderful learning process for children and adults! There are directions for creating a solar cooker, or oven, from cardboard at:
*http://journeytoforever.org/edu_cardboard.html
Step 11

Compost your cardboard. Cardboard decomposes and is beneficial to garden soil. If you compost and have cardboard that is not used in some other way, add it to your compost pile. Simply remove any tape, plastic, or staples first.
Step 12

Make a child's nesting toy. Cardboard boxes come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The tops can be removed and they can be stacked inside each other to create an educational toy for a small child.