The Frugal Lifestyle

[Bit]

oh, is this my place?

Couple days ago I emptied a bag of flour into the canister; a bag of sugar into its canister; a box of smashed tato flakes into its canister, but I couldn't bring myself to throw the packages away.

Last night I got frustrated because I have too many magazines and nowhere to put them. Gotta be something I can do about that!

*this is a job for SuperBit! ta-daaa!*

So I spent an hour getting messy in the only way I like to get messy: I ripped those bags into palm-sized pieces, cut the box into a magazine caddy shape, and papier mached the bags onto the box with white glue, plain side out.

It would cost me anywhere from $2.50 to $4.00 plus the busfare both ways to go buy a cardboard magazine caddy----and then I would have to throw away the otherwise perfectly usable paper bags and box after all, because my recycler won't take them.

Yanno why I didn't mind gettin messy? I got to peel the glue off my fingers when it dried. That's so cool, lol.