How do you store your left over paint?
Kendrah
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Comments (18)I never buy bread that comes in plastic bags - when I do buy bread, it comes in paper type bags that are always open at one end. I mostly buy La Brea Bakery bread, but Gelson's has their own bread that they make that is excellent as well. There's a bakery in the mini-mall with my bank, and I buy bread there occasionally as well. They don't have the best selection, and they don't have pumpernickel, which is why I have to make that bread myself. In fact, I need to make more, but I'm going to wait until Monday because DB's birthday is this week-end. Now that I have a good oven, I will be buying less bread. I reuse the plastic bags that I put onions and garlic in, and I store bread in those. Lars...See MoreHow do you store your messy papers? I must (!) solve this.
Comments (45)I don't want to hijack Elizabeth's thread, but I am going through the same, only have a much worse problem. My projects get really big, and I realize that in the past the boxes or baskets I have used haven't been deep enough. I was a The Old Time Pottery last weekend, - they've got a number of stores in Atlanta and I don't know if they are elsewhere. They were selling "lingerie chests" with drawers that are about the size needed for 8.5 x 11 papers, or folded legal size paper. So I bought the only 2 they had (one was their floor sample, already assembled!) and have started sticking projects in that. I have already realized I'll probably need paperweights to keep the larger piles from getting out of control and sticking so the drawers can't open. The chest is about 45" high, and the drawers look square - I would say about 14" x 14". I am planning on using these drawers and maybe if I need them some boxes. I've tried baskets before, and realize that one reason they don't work for me is that they are so heavily textured that the papers get caught by the woven strips, or it's uncomfortable for me to stick my hands in. So far, I've scoooped up the project piles on my morning room table, which serves as a desk. As long as the drawers remain easy to open (i.e., good, lasting construction of cheap furniture, as well as controlling the piles by dividing into sub-projects, if needed), this might work for me....See Morewhat do you do with left over sample paints?
Comments (18)The only time you need to take paint or stain to the hazmat drop is if it's oil-based. Water-based products can go in the trash if it's just not salvageable (for instance, if it froze and curdled, or it's just too old - I've had the pigments in old paint and stain settle into a solid brick at the bottom of the can). Here's how my previous town asked that people dispose of latex paint: Get yourself some sand or plain old cheap kitty litter and mix it with the paint to a thick oatmeal consistency. Leave the can lid off until the paint has dried into a rock, and chuck it right into the trash. If you wish to recycle the metal cans, scrape all the "oatmealed" paint into a heavy trash bag (put the trash bag in a box or bucket first, just to keep it confined) before it dries, allow it to dry out, put the metal can in the recycling and the hardened paint into the trash. I think last time I had a bunch of those little BM sample pots (a lot of the time from the first smear I know it ain't gonna happen, so 90% of it's left over) I asked on here if anyone wanted them, and they ended up getting mailed halfway across country! Another lovely poster was kind enough to give me all HER sample quarts and "whoops, that didn't come out quite the way I thought it would" paint which ended up being enough to paint almost my entire house interior for sale in 2007 - she saved me a couple of hundred dollars....See MoreSo how do you store your fabric?
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