Clothespins
I have a new love of clothespins. I bought a package last month with big plans to make an advent calendar of clothespins and envelopes holding 25 little treats. Yeah, that never happened. I ended up putting all the clothespins in a little container on the kitchen counter, and then realized they make great chip clips. We had always been short of clips for chip and pretzel bags, and ended up using rubber bands, or just rolling up the bag and then squinching it up against something to hold it closed. Now I have more clips than I could ever need. You can’t beat the price –they come in a package of 50 for a few dollars at Target stores. Much better than the cheapy plastic clips we had been using that seemed to break so easily too. And better looking too. Do any of you love clothespins – or have other good uses for them?
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Posted Monday, December 21, 2009 in Food & Drink, Organizing
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What great ideas! I want to make the kids an advent calendar next year! Remind me!
i also love clothespins!! great and horrible memories of hanging clothes on the line to dry in winter!!! anyway – i keep forgetting to buy some – i bet if you google clothes pins you can find some fun things to do with them..the old stand bye – put a magnet on the back – and put some on the fridge for notes..i bought my little grandson an apron for his birthday – and the string that goes over his head doesn’t tie – but it’s too big – so i want to use a clothespin to clip the string to make it smaller around his neck..make sense?
ps – did you make the little basket the pins are in?
This year I strung a wire “clothesline” up along the entry wall by the front door, and used clothespins to clip and display our Christmas cards. I bought two packages of the mini clips.
For one package I sandwiched Christmas foam stickers onto one side of the part you pinch, and the other package I decorated with sticky gems. They came out so cute and held our cards tightly. We can also use them again next year!
great idea about the cards!!! i was also thinking that you could take twine – string it up in a child’s room – and use clothes pins to hang their art..why do i wake up thinking of these things! :^)
Happy,Health 2010
We do exactly the same and clip cheese bags, frozen veggie bags…
I appreciate all your comments and promise to have a new post up soon! Sarita – I wish I could make cute containers like this one, but I got it at the Target dollar spot! Happy New Year everyone!!!
don’t ya just love the dollar spot at target!!!!
This is a little late posting but I use the clothespins to help cover my plants during the few freezes we get. It holds the sheets or whatever covering I have over the plants and bushes.
I just clip the sheet to the branch (or anything attachable) and it works great!!