Toxic Waste Desk Caddy

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is an easy road but one very rarely traveled.

Toxic Waste – in this case – is a very sour candy of some sorts (never actually tried it myself, only tend to find the aftermath of people having used them in a park, including containers left behind) and they come, separately wrapped, in a plastic can such as the one in the picture.

Those containers are, so it is being said, 'collectables' but how many of them do end up, despite of that, in the trash bin? The great majority of them, I wager. Most people would not, probably, consider them any more collectable than, say, a Snapple bottle or the cap of one. And that despite the fact that the Snapple bottle caps do have all those Trivia facts in them.

But why? It is such a shame to waste them as they make great containers and bins for the desk, and thus, also, great little conversation pieces.

When I tend to find them the lids normally are missing (and at times they have been broken as well) and without the lid they are pencil bins and open bins for the desk; with lid, however, such a can could hold also other things.

It is a shame that people do not seem to have the imagination to see the potential in this little container, or in other things that they so thoughtlessly toss into the trash.

I doubt that there is an instruction needed as to how to convert a Toxic Waste can into a pencil bin or such like as it is as simple as “take one empty container, fill with pens and place on desk.”

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Homemade window glass and mirror cleaner

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

Make your own glass cleaner, and get beautiful, streak-free windows for little money.

You will need only two ingredients and one further item:

• White vinegar
• Water
• A spray bottle
  
You fill the spray bottle with equal parts vinegar and water and then you use it as you would any other glass cleaner.

The benefits of using vinegar as a glass cleaner are that it inexpensive, contains no harsh chemicals or fumes (though the smell of vinegar is not everyone's cup of tea), it effectively removes fingerprints and other window grime and it does not leave streaks.

It is generally recommended that, for safety, you do not reuse empty cleaner bottles, as the vinegar can react with the residue of the chemicals that were in that bottle previously. Ideally you should buy a new bottle for your glass cleaner. I must say here though that I just thoroughly wash such a bottle and then use water in it a couple of times before I use it for anything else. I, fir instance, have used such spray bottles for use with washing up liquid for black fly and such on beans, etc.

Also, always label the contents of your cleaner bottles, regardless of what cleaner they may contain, and always keep out of the reach of children and pets.

A special word of warning here: Many recipes for glass cleaners that can be found on the Internet contain ammonia and/or isopropyl alcohol. Those ingredients are, so it is said, poisonous when swallowed or inhaled in large quantities. Ammonia is a very nasty substance that, while it has been used in cleaners for a long time, inhaled or ingested is poisonous, as said. Not something that is very safe to have around and definitely not safe for the environment.

© M Smith (Veshengro), July 2008
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DIY-Cereal Box Wallet

A review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

The other day, via a link from another site, I found the instructions and downloadable PDF template to a little DIY cardboard wallet. Now this is a nice idea of practical recycling. This is intended for the recycling of the cardboard from breakfast cereal packs but will also work with other boards to be recycled that is of a similar thickness or somewhat above.

I downloaded the template, applied it to the cover of an old brochure from a trade fair and within less than 20 minutes – including finding the elastic cord – I have a fully functional wallet suitable for a number of things, including and especially business/visiting cards.

This is, as just indicated, a great little wallet for business/visiting cards that anyone can make in, I should think, less than half an hour.

It will make a great conversation piece in the same way as do the business cards that we ate Tatchipen Media use, which are recycled from printed press releases and such.

However, the one drawback is that the wallet in the current template design only works with cards that are a little narrower in height if seen in landscape as are the more standard versions of business cards. Those more standards cards would require a little redrawing – though not much – of the template, which should not be too great of a problem either.

In a further, enlarged version of the template, this wallet design could be made suitable for use with 3x5 index cards and the “hipster PDA”.

Go, give it a try.

You find the details and the template here:

© M Smith (Veshengro), April 2008

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