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- [Tree Limb Trimming: No Ladder Required!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2026/03/29/tree-limb-trimming-no-ladder-required/): My neighbors and I have many big healthy mature trees. It's great for shade and ambiance, but growing trees sometimes need tree limb trimming. Sometimes tree branches grow so well that they start overhanging your roof line. At other times, a branch partially breaks or dies off. While big jobs may require a professional, this article suggests an inexpensive and SAFE way to do your own tree limb trimming with a minimum of hassle.
- [Gutter Cleaning: No Ladder Required!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/11/13/gutter-cleaning-no-ladder-required/): Paying someone to clean the gutters that often can get expensive. I don't know about you, but I've decided I want to minimize my time on a ladder, especially outdoors. I got to thinking about what my options were for gutter cleaning tools that didn't involve getting on a ladder.
- [Maximizing Your Thrift Store Donation](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/11/04/maximizing-a-thrift-store-donation/): Have you ever wondered what happens to your stuff after you make a thrift store donation? I've volunteered at a local thrift store since 2016, going in to help sort and price donations at least once a week. There has been some interest about what happens to items that get donated, so I thought I'd go into some detail about what happens in the back room of the thrift store. While reuse and sustainability are among our goals, each shop or organization handles the deluge of donor's unwanted goods in different ways.
- [Painting Your Front Door – Discover What DIYers Need to Know](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/10/17/painting-your-front-door-discover-what-diyers-need-to-know/): Painting your front door can be an inexpensive way to brighten up the entrance to your place and can even enhance it's value! I recently decided to take the leap - not only painting the door, the security door and the side panel, but changing the color to something more design forward.
- [Unique Tree Ring Ideas Using a Raised Bed Planter](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/09/29/unique-tree-ring-ideas-using-a-raised-bed-planter/): I came up with a way to use a raised bed planter to improve the appearance of my front yard and to extend my tree ring. I hope my story will help inspire you to come up with your own tree ring ideas to adapt to your unique landscape challenges.
- [Adjustable Length Necklace – No Sliding Knot Required!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/07/25/adjustable-length-necklace-no-sliding-knot-required/): I have written an extensive Sliding Knot Tutorial with detailed pictures: Sliding Knots – A Tutorial. Some people have trouble tying these knots though (or just don't like tying knots), so there is a simple way to make an adjustable length necklace that replaces knotting with a large hole bead.
- [Rescuing My Birdbath: Fun with Epoxy Resin Color!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/07/07/rescuing-my-birdbath-fun-with-epoxy-resin-color/): Interior of basin on the third day - in the midst of the Lime Green epoxy resin color pour.
- [Clean Artificial Flowers Fast!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/06/11/clean-artificial-flowers-fast/): I love using realistic looking artificial flowers throughout my home. I've also placed a number of silk flowers and natural looking greenery in outdoor pots, especially in places that don't get enough sun for real plants to thrive. The problem though, is eventually they start looking dingy.
- [Brass Quick Connects – Best Garden Hose Fittings!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/05/25/brass-quick-connects-best-garden-hose-fittings/): There are 'a bazzillon' choices for brass quick connect garden hose fittings. I've tried a couple and would say that while you might get lucky and one brand will fit into another, the connection is not as tight as you'd like and will drip a bit. Some are just clearly a different diameter and will not insert or will not stay clipped when the water is turned on. So try to pick a decently made brand of connector and order enough to cover all of your planned connections. If you need to get a few more, save yourself a headache by buying the same brand.
- [Big Garden Hands – Easy Yard Cleanup Garden Tools!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/05/12/big-garden-hands-easy-yard-cleanup-garden-tools/): Earlier this year, I saw my neighbor using some large plastic garden tools that fit over her hands. She filled up her huge compost toter in a few minutes without even having to rake first.
- [Favorite New Garden Tool: Dremel Multi Max](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/05/03/favorite-new-garden-tool-dremel-multi-max/): Most people would not consider a handheld oscillating saw as a tool for their garden. I certainly didn't when I originally bought this Dremel Multi Max power tool, but opportunity met inspiration and a problem was solved!
- [DIY Windshield Washer Fluid – It’s Easy to Make your Own!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/04/21/diy-windshield-washer-fluid-its-easy-to-make-your-own/): I ran out of Windshield Washer Fluid again today. I thought about grabbing some the last time I was at the store, but my hands were already full. Surely I had enough sitting around in the garage (nope!)
- [New Earrings from Old: Vintage Earrings](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/03/30/new-earrings-from-old-vintage-earrings/): In my article Thrift Shop Junkie: Oakland & Berkeley California, I describe how I found a pair of clip-on vintage earrings at a Creative Reuse shop. The beads in the earrings are fabulous, and because I spent years in the bead and jewelry supply industry, I knew that classic styles of glass beads meant that they had originally been made in what is now the Czech Republic. In this article, I show you how I repurpose the beads into new earrings that reflect a current style.
- [DIY Storage Solutions – Organize Home Improvement Supplies](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/03/12/diy-storage-solutions-organize-home-improvement-supplies/): Pegboard accessories make great DIY storage solutions. I pick up pegboard hooks at thrift stores and estate sales.
- [Best Shoes for Plantar Fasciitis: Abeo Sandals](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/03/09/best-shoes-for-plantar-fasciitis-abeo-sandals/): I want to tell a painful story about how I learned about the best shoes for plantar fasciitis.
- [Plantar Fasciitis: My Successful Recovery Journey](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/03/09/plantar-fasciitis-my-successful-recovery-journey/): On the last descent of about 450 feet, I "blew out" my right foot. Afterwards, I learned that my well ventilated but poorly designed sandals with very little arch support had given me my first introduction to plantar fasciitis.
- [Maldon Salt – Why You Should Flake Out!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/03/03/maldon-salt-why-you-should-flake-out/): Maldon Salt is named for the place it comes from: the coastal town of Maldon in Essex, England. It is a sea salt that is known for its large, pyramid-shaped crystals. The crystal structure is what gives it a distinctive flaky texture. The salt is often used as a finishing salt, sprinkled on dishes just before serving to enhance the flavor and add a slight crunch.
- [How to Clean Jewelry – 2 Quick & Easy Methods](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/02/27/how-to-clean-jewelry-2-quick-easy-methods/): Have you ever been running out the door to go to an event, and picked out your jewelry to match your outfit - only to realize that the jewelry looks grungy? I certainly have! Here I describe how to clean jewelry with my two best and very quick DIY methods that work to improve the appearance of just about any type of jewelry in a short period of time.
- [Benefits of Thrifting – Top 10 Reasons for Thrift Shopping](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/02/19/benefits-of-thrifting-top-10-reasons-for-thrift-shopping/): Buying secondhand goods can do a lot of good! If you've been thinking about checking out thrifting, but need a little more encouragement, this is my "top ten list" of great reasons to get involved in the reuse economy. Find out which of the benefits of thrifting appeal to you.
- [How to Remove Sticky Residue from Surfaces – 9 Common Household Solvents](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/02/11/how-to-remove-sticky-residue-from-surfaces-9-common-household-solvents/): Have you ever struggled with how to remove sticky residue from surfaces at home? What is the best way to remove sticky adhesive from a food product label? Have you bought something new and the price tag or informational stickers won't peel off? How about a bandage? Tape residue - especially that two-sided foam stuff? The answer is:
- [Sliding Glass Door Repair – How to Fix a Jammed Sliding Door](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/02/06/sliding-glass-door-repair-how-to-fix-a-jammed-sliding-door/): The sliding glass door that leads to my back patio has gotten harder and harder to open. It wasn't operating great when I first moved into my house, but as it got worse, I decided it was time to figure out how to get it to slide correctly before I couldn't open (or close!) it at all. I was worried I that instead of just some sliding glass door repair, I might actually have to replace the whole door! Here is what I learned about how to fix a jammed sliding door.
- [Gap Filling Wood Glue – Easy Wood Repair](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/02/03/gap-filling-wood-glue-jb-weld-kwikwood/): I planned to stabilize my bench by re-gluing all the places I could with regular wood glue, but I had areas where the old wood no longer could be clamped together. I needed a gap filling wood glue. After doing some research, I decided that JB Weld KwikWood was my best alternative.
- [Used Coffee Grounds – 13 Awesome Reuse Ideas](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/31/used-coffee-grounds-13-awesome-reuse-ideas/): Please don't dump your coffee grounds in the trash or down the kitchen sink disposal! There are so many excellent uses for your daily (or in my case, multi-daily) used coffee grounds production.
- [Best Laundry Stain Removal Product](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/25/best-laundry-stain-removal/): I've tried a lot of different products to remove stains in clothing and linens. I'll get enticed by some snazzy packaging or marketing, try the product, and then will be disappointed. The container that is still full of product then gets donated to the Hazardous Waste center for their reuse area. The best laundry stain removal product was already in my laundry cabinet!
- [Cast Iron Skillet – A Must-Have for your Kitchen](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/23/cast-iron-skillet-a-must-have-for-your-kitchen/): Cast iron skillets have many benefits, including their durability, versatility, and natural non-stick properties. They are an absolute favorite in the Buy It For Life (#bifl) community. My personal cast iron skillet, featured in the pictures accompanying this article was already old when I bought it many years ago at an outdoor flea market in Iowa. I would guess that it was easily 30 years old when I bought it, and now it 35 years older. This is truly an item that gets better with age.
- [Vaping is Bad … for the Environment](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/17/vaping-is-bad-for-the-environment/): To take my dog to the nice park in our area, we have to walk along a street for a couple blocks where the speed limit is pretty high and there aren't houses along the street. This is a favorite place for people to toss stuff out of their car windows. I pick up a lot of trash to keep the neighborhood looking nice.
- [Thrift Shop Junkie: Oakland & Berkeley California](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/14/thrift-shop-junkie-oakland-berkeley-california/): I recently made a visit to Oakland, California and got to check out some interesting shops there and in nearby Berkeley, CA. I found a mix of full merchandise stores and a couple cool specialty thrift shop locations.
- [Thrift Store Junkie: Salt Lake City, UT](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/08/thrift-store-junkie-salt-lake-city-ut/): This is one in a series of articles that explores unique and interesting sources for discounted items. Whether it be a traditional thrift store or resellers that have access to new items at favorable prices, I’ll explore the most interesting collections on offer in a certain locale.
- [Swiffer Sweeper – Why an Eco-Conscious Person Loves this Mop](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/06/swiffer-sweeper-why-an-eco-conscious-person-loves-this-mop/): A Swiffer Sweeper is a light weight flat pad with a swivel connection to a lightweight metal pole that is the right length to mop floors. The swivel connector is designed so that you can easily dart underneath furniture to clean. I have a metal table where the base is a couple inches from the floor, yet I can quickly sweep under it all the way to the wall without having to lift the mop from the floor surface. Pretty nice feature.
- [Best Knots for Beading: Square Knot & Surgeon’s Knot](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2025/01/05/best-knots-for-beading-square-knot-surgeons-knot/): This is another in our series of Best Knots for Beading: the knots described here are used when you need a more secure knot to connect beading threads together.
- [Hardwood Floor Cleaner: My Choice](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/30/hardwood-floor-cleaner-my-choice/): If you're looking for an effective and reliable solution for cleaning your hardwood floors, Bona Hardwood Floor Cleaner is my go-to product! I've been using it for several years, and it is definitely my choice for keeping my floors looking spotless, free of pet hair, and well-maintained.
- [Thrift Store Junkie: Explore Glenwood Springs, CO](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/29/thrift-store-junkie-explore-glenwood-springs-co/): There are few thrift stores in Aspen, Colorado. The rents are just too expensive to be supportive of the thrift industry. There are some consignment shops, mostly for boutique clothing, ski gear and outdoor sports gear. The one donation based shop I could find is fairly small. So what happens when someone in Aspen wants to donate very large things like furniture, art, home decor, or maybe a chandelier? Find out below!
- [Best Knots for Beading: Half Hitch](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/24/best-knots-for-beading-half-hitch/): I hope you enjoyed this installment of Best Knots for Beading. You may also want to visit the Sliding Knot Tutorial if you have an interest in making Jewelry such as necklaces or bracelets using cord. Another method for making the sliding length adjustment for a necklace can be found in this detailed tutorial Adjustable Length Necklace – No Sliding Knot Required!
- [Thrift Store Junkie: Explore South West Denver](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/23/thrift-store-junkie-south-west-denver/): This is one in a series of articles that explores unique and interesting sources for pre-loved items. Whether it be a thrift store, a consignment shop, a vintage or pre-owned boutique clothing venue, I'll explore the most interesting collections on offer.
- [Sliding Knots – A Tutorial](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/19/sliding-knots-a-tutorial/): Sliding knots are adjustable knots used to make all sorts of adjustable-length jewelry. No clasps, crimps, or jump loops are necessary. All you need is plenty of cord and a pair of scissors. Sometimes, people also refer to these knots as slip knots and others refer to them as barrel knots because of the way that they look after they are tied.
- [Wooden Cutting Boards – So Much Safer than Plastic! Learn Why](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/17/wooden-cutting-boards-so-much-safer-than-plastic-learn-why/): For at least 25 or 30 years, I continually have heard "common knowledge" that says that plastic cutting boards are safer for food preparation than wooden cutting boards. However, I know about scientific studies that show the opposite: you are far better off using wood. I wonder why the this urban myth continues to persist and decided to share my own story.
- [Rain Barrel, Made From Scratch](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/15/rain-barrel-made-from-scratch/): When I moved into a new place about a year ago, I had the perfect location for a rain barrel. I wanted to use the water it could collect to care for my container plants in the front of my home. It also was a spot where the water tended to pool after a rain storm, so capturing some of the water would avoid a muddy puddle.
- [Gold Filled Findings List](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/11/gold-filled-findings-list/): Before getting to the list, I want to talk about why you would want to spend the money to use Gold Filled findings. Many people that I have encountered find the jewelry parts from this material to be expensive as compared to other choices. Given the cost of Karat Gold and Fine Silver in the commodity markets over the last 20 years, Gold Filled items have cost from 25% more to almost double the cost of the same item in Sterling Silver.
- [Make Earrings – It’s Easy!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/10/make-earrings-its-easy/): It only takes a few simple steps to make earrings from beads or small pendants. Watch my video to see how it's done! I also provide online sources for many of the findings and beads you need to make your own creations.
- [Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder – Really!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/09/squirrel-proof-bird-feeder-really/): I just read a very long thread on Reddit bemoaning bird feeders that don't really keep the squirrels out. There were long stories about people who'd spent upwards of $600 (!!!) to try to come up with a system for the ultimate squirrel proof bird feeder. There were detailed explanations about poles, baffles, cones, suspension systems ... OMG!
- [Apple AirTags To the Rescue!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/08/apple-airtags-to-the-rescue/): So. We finally get to the Apple AirTags. If my puppy had an AirTag on her harness, we could have tracked her location. She was hard to spot because she was following a network of parks and natural spaces connected by waterways (remember that park system I mentioned earlier in the article?). Narrowing down her location to a much smaller area would have hugely simplified our task of retrieving her.
- [Sterling Silver Beading Finding List](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/07/sterling-silver-beading-finding-list/): In many of my videos, I am making or repairing jewelry with Sterling Silver findings. This is a quick reference to the parts that I use in my projects. Use this list if you are having trouble finding quality parts. I was in the Jewelry Supply industry for over 10 years and one of my jobs was to find reliable vendors of reliable parts for artisan jewelry. I have selected these items based on that experience.
- [Economy Beading Finding List](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/05/economy-beading-finding-list/): In many of my videos, I am making or repairing jewelry with Sterling Silver findings. If you spend any time looking through those links, you can see that the price of real silver has made those items pretty expensive.
- [Convert any window in your home into a Privacy Window](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/03/turn-your-home-windows-into-a-privacy-window/): I found the perfect solution with this self-adhering privacy window film product! It easily can be cut to fit your custom window size, and installing it was simple. It is made from translucent material - so the light shines through, but you can't really see directly through it. The material itself is a bit like those decorative 'window clings' that are used for holiday decorations, but this stuff is thicker and sturdier.
- [Mop & Glo – A Confession](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/03/mop-glo-a-confession/): I am sitting here struggling to write something that doesn't sound like it was written by a bot. I really like Mop & Glo, and it seems like I always have. I tried to remember when I first started using it, but it seems like it's always been around. I confess, that this all sounds lame, but it's true.
- [Necklace Too Short? What to Do to Adjust the Length](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/02/make-a-beaded-necklace-longer/): Necklace extenders not only allow you to wear a single necklace at the right length to match your clothing, but they can be used to add a necklace to a stack. The term "stack" is the word for an on-trend jewelry fashion: layering many different necklaces together, with each one hanging at a different length. Adding your own custom length extender to each necklace in a stack can result in the perfect necklace arrangement.
- [Leaf Bag Chute – A Helpful Tool!](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/02/leaf-bag-chute-a-helpful-tool/): A product review for a tool that helps with the chore of bagging leaves in the fall. A Leaf Bag Chute holds up tippy bags and makes it easy to fill them up with leaves and other gardening debris.
- [Stinky Washing Machine – How Do I Fix This?](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/01/how-to-fix-a-stinky-washing-machine/): Learn how to get rid of the smell that develops in your upright clothes washing machine. Once your machine is no longer stinky, learn how to keep it that way! Also find out reasons why a stinky washing machine is even 'a thing'.
- [Make This Easy Beaded Necklace](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/01/make-this-easy-beaded-necklace/): Make great beaded jewelry with just these 5 essential tools: a wire cutter, a chain nose plier, a round nose plier, blue tape and a TOWEL! These are the only tools you really need to make all kinds of necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Click here to review the 5 Essential Beading Tools Video
- [How to Fix Scratches on Furniture](https://review-reuse-repair.com/2024/12/01/how-to-fix-scratches-on-furniture/): Here are the main products that I used to fix scratches on furniture:

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