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5 Ideas For Used Envelopes
- Cut a corner off used envelopes and use as bookmark corner sleeves–just slide one over the page you are at and you’ll find your place easily the next time you pick up the book. No more folded corners and nice way to utilize used envelopes!
- Slit them open and use for scrap paper, to do lists, shopping lists and kids doodle paper
- Store receipts, coupons, garden seeds
- Zip through the shredder and use for packing material
- Give them to kids to play office, secretary and post office
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Make security slips for envelopes.
Cut the sides off the used envelopes, discard front address side and use the back security printed side as security into your other outgoing envelopes. this way no one can hole up the thin envelopes and see your check or correspondence inside.
Can be done while watching tv as it’s mindless work.
Nice tip Nancy! Thanks for sharing that
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A friend of mine used to turn envelopes inside out and sew them around the edges with a zigzag stitch. A letter from him was an adventure.
i like making beads from the recycled security envelopes as shown in (i belive) make:magazine
I belong to a coupon exchange group with my church. We save our envelopes put the months on them (October, November, December) place the coupons that are expiring that month in the corosponding envelope. Place the 12 or so envelopes (no Experation or other) with a list of people who want to perticipate (they place the date of last time looked at next to their name). Eveyone takes out coupons they want and add those they won’t use. This is how I usually use all those envelopes that come in the mail. Pray this money saveing reusing tip helps someone.
Make used window envelopes into bookmarks for
gifts.
Take 2 window ( 1 window each)envlopes and cut the length of envelope including the window
_______________________________
envelope
—————-
window
—————
____________________________-
__Bottm of envelope
with one piece the inside facing up –put dried flowers or bead arrangment on the window–glue with transparant drying glue.
When dry, glue the other envlope piece -inside facing down with window over your arrangement.
decorate rest of envelope.
I know this not a good discription, but hope you can understand—-they make a nice gift.
PS if anyone can write this more understandably—please do
earthday note! keep a cheerful coloured bucket in the bathroom to collect the first few litres of warming shower water. too cold to jump into, but perfect to save for the houseplants, handwashing delicates, toothbrushing or even toilet flushing! (pouring water directly into the bowl causes the toilet to flush without using the tank)