Here Are The 10 Smart Uses Of Old Bed Sheets

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Shower curtains

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Have you ever walked into an exhibition where recycled craft ideas are embodied in artistic pieces? The simplest recycling ideas have become great and successful recycling projects ideas just with a little touch of creativity.

You can easily become like one of those artists by applying recycling life hacks at home. For instance, you can make some cute, decorated and colorful shower curtains out of your old bedsheets.

Whether you want to make an extra long shower curtain or an extra short one, all that you need are your old bedsheets, scissors, and few curtain clips. Some good sewing skills might be needed.

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Sleeping bag liner

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Do you go camping a lot with your friends? You probably need an entire camping kit, inclusive of sleeping bags and sleeping bag liners. To buy all these stuff brand new, you are going to need a fortune.

You already need a whole budget to purchase a tent, binoculars, ropes, first aid kit, and a big backpack. To economize a bit, you can make a sleeping bag liner without having to buy one.

Bedsheets are made of the best fabrics that can be used to make a thin and lightweight sleeping bag liners. You can pack them for use when camping or simply traveling and staying in a hotel. Grab an old bedsheet, fold it in a half and sew the long edge plus one shorter side.

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Donate the sheets

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While you are enjoying your warm bed in winter cold days, some people live in the streets and don’t have even a place to stay in, clothes to wear or food to eat.

So before throwing any of your old items away, including your old bed sheet set, think of others in need and give your bedsheets, for instance, away as a goodwill donation. Being a member of a community is about helping others through donation.

Here is a simple tip on how to help others: pack your old bedsheets in bags and hand them over to a charity house or a poor neighbor of yours. S/he will be quite grateful.

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Drop cloth

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The furniture and house decorating markets are now full of the best bed sheets on sale. This means that it is shopping time. But where are you planning to place your old bedsheets? Probably in the trash can which is a bad idea anyway.

Well, if you have house-repainting plans on mind, you can use the old bedsheets as drop cloths. Most people use plastic sheets to spread them out on the house’s floor when painting.

Yet plastic sheets are not the only option and are not the best either. The use of fabric is more practical. So go for the use of your old bedsheets as drop cloths.

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Reusable shopping bag

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This is the age of having recycling badly needed. Pollution is becoming more and more alarming and so is waste production. Each one among you should contribute to preventing environmental catastrophes from occurring because of humans’ irrational environmental decisions.

Instead of using dry cleaning plastic bags, you can use recycling dry cleaning bags. The same holds true to the use of shopping bags. Since plastic pollution is already off the limit lines, we all need to be careful with our consumption of plastic items.

We all need to have recycling skills to make the simplest yet safest things like reusable shopping bags, using merely old bedsheets.

Try any of the aforesaid hacks and share with us the results!

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