New uses for old things

Hey everyone!  It's been awhile, hasn't it?  I've sure missed blogging to everyone.  I finally finished English Comp II and my research paper (which was on the 1950s family and what we could learn from them).  Still waiting for my grade to come in so keep your fingers crossed!
In my last post, I mentioned that I was planning to do a week of just the crazy strict cleaning schedule and the beauty routine of the 50s housewife.  My plan as of now is to do the cleaning one next week.  This week I have something to do nearly every day and know I won't have the time I want to dedicate to it.  I'll use this week to do more research and gather my cleaning supplies.
Today I want to talk about another important aspect of the 50s housewife's life.  She was a recycling queen due partly to the recent Great Depression and World War II and due partly to that generations desire to reduce waste.  People didn't throw many things away.  They either found a new use for them or repaired them.  I currently have a few clothing items waiting to be repaired (maybe I'll get to that the week I do the cleaning schedule as one day is set aside for mending/repairing).  I found myself finding new uses for things today and wanted to share with you all so maybe you'll think about doing the same.
I was making Jim's breakfast burritos and I used all the flour tortillas.  As I was about the throw away the bag the tortillas came in it dawned on me that I could put the burritos in there and just get out one each morning.  Normally, I put each one in its own zipper bag.  So, today I found a new use for the tortilla bag AND saved three zipper bags- SCORE! 
Another thing I reuse and have for awhile are those zipper bags.  If it has something like chips in it, I reuse it for food again.  If it had a liquid or raw food (chicken, beef, etc) then I toss them.  I also double bag foods that I'm freezing for future use.  The inner bag is almost always trash but the outer bag didn't touch the food and is fine to reuse. 
Aluminum foil is another thing that I reuse.  Some dishes require being covered with foil while it bakes and the foil never touches the food so why throw it away?
Another item I found myself reusing today was my old liquid creamer bottles.  I found an idea on Pinterest about reusing them to put dry snacks in or to put chocolate chips in once you've opened the bag so I kept a few.  Then recently I found a pin for homemade coffee creamer using sweetened condensed milk, milk or heavy cream, and flavorings such as vanilla, chocolate, etc.  I needed creamer this week anyway so I bought the ingredients to make my own.  I used my old creamer bottles to put it in.  And let me say, homemade creamer isn't as good as store bought but it's pretty close and much cheaper.  Coffee-Mate in the smaller size is around $2.  I spent maybe $1 on the sweetened condensed milk and already had regular milk and vanilla extract so I made almost 2 bottles for half of what the store bought kind costs.  I plan to try it again when this runs out and I think I'll venture out and try another flavor. 
One more, and yes, it also came from Pinterest!  If we are all honest, don't most of our good ideas come from there? When Wyatt was younger and wore diapers all the time, I bought them by the box to be more economical but I ended up tossing a lot of the boxes (how economic is that?) until I saw this pin.  Is this genius or what??  Too bad I didn't see this until I had stopped buying by the box and only had one box.  I now use it to hold the kids books in their reading corner.  (Note: a good blogger would put a photo here, wouldn't she?  Guess I'm not that good! lol)
If any of my local readers have any diaper boxes and you won't be using them, I'd love them to make more of these cuties.  So, there's a few of my reusing tips.  I'd love to hear from y'all so please leave a comment with your tips and suggestions.  Tootles for now!