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Tissue Box Pencil Holder

  • Completed Project: Tissue Box Pencil Holder Picture #1
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Repurposing & Reusing: Giving a New Life to Discardable Items
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Reusing something, instead of throwing it away, serves three purposes:
1. It's a solution to something I needed.
2. It keeps something out of a landfill. (Save the Earth!)
3. It saves money. (Woo hoo!)

Last year, I had strep throat, and in retrospect, I wish I had invested in tissue stock the month prior, as I certainly went through many of them. I like pretty things, so when I bought tissues, I got the ones in pretty boxes (I know, not the most economically practical but hey, a girl's gotta do what she can to feel better sometimes!).

Then, I had a new dilemma...when I used all of the tissues, I didn't have the heart to discard the box! At the same time, I didn't want to clutter up my closet with empty tissue boxes, so what's a girl to do?

Voila:

When I first put my pencils in the holder, they tilted this way and that, some falling under the lip of the top, making it really hard to see what I had and access them easily. So, I rigged up this solution:

Tape with holes! (genius right? ha!)

Based on an original project available here

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  1. Step 1

    1. Use clear packing tape. Tear off one piece with it's length equal to the width of the top of the tissue box. Lay this on a flat surface, sticky side up.

  2. Step 2

    2. Tear another piece of tape that is about 2/3 the length of the first. Now (and this is the hard part) lay that piece on top of the other, CENTERED, sticky side to sticky side. Careful-you have to get this right the first time or start over.

    What you should have now is a double layer of tape with a little bit of sticky side still exposed on each end from the first piece.


  3. Step 3

    3. Turn the double tape over, in your hand (not on the table) so that the sticky side ends face down. Using a single-hole puncher, punch random holes in the double layers-as many as you need.

  4. Step 4

    4. Stick the tape to the top of the tissue box. Trim overhanging edges.

    It's not glamorous or perfect, but I bet your friends will be impressed!


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ShinigamiMiu

ShinigamiMiu

March 11th, 2008 21:13

i will admit i buy the pretty ones too, the Kleenex ones in the oval boxes, somewhat like yours. lol.
I usually cant bear to throw the boxes away after (unless theyve had something spilled on them or have been broken).
I currently have one storing my cotton wool makeup remover pads!

Lady Lolita

Lady Lolita

March 11th, 2008 22:42

I acctuailly re-filled thoes klenex boxes with puffs for a while as you can just pop the plastic tops off, but that got too complicated for tissues. So now I have quite a lot of them cluttering up my closet! Ahhhh... the closet of a crafting pack-rat!

JewelFaerie

JewelFaerie

March 12th, 2008 20:51

You know something I didn't add...I got sick again and used my empty ones as dirty tissue holders! That way I don't have to have a trashcan by my bed! LOL

k.e.l.l.y.

k.e.l.l.y.

March 13th, 2008 00:11

What a great idea! A nice step towards saving the environment; every small thing counts, right? Love it. SOO gonna do this one.