The vinegar is used up and you are faced with a chunk of plastic that has served its initial purpose as a 4-litre container.
What next?
Use the sharpest knife you can find (“Hold tightly, press lightly”) and slice the bottle into two parts.
In the photo above the left-hand part will make a convenient holder for incoming mail or receipts. Or recipe cards.
The right-hand part will serve as a scoop for potting-soil or, with the cap temporarily removed, a scoop-and-funnel for sand.
The customized postage stamps are used up.
The sheet is near-empty.
There’s a bit of blank space on the top border of the adhesive sheet, but there’s LOTS of blank space down the sides and across the foot.
Chop up the blank pieces to make handy adhesive labels.
Here is where I will use mine: I date-stamp cartridges as I load them into my laser printer.
Or I could use them to label jars of bottled pears!
The roll of waxed-paper or foil or cling-film is finished.
The oblong cardboard container is torn up into scraps for the vermicomposter.
What to do with the serrated metal strip, about a foot long, that used to cut the paper into chunks?
Easy!
It makes a superb extra-strong long twist-tie for heavy cables!
