Here is what I do with the extra elastic I cut off the fitted sheets when I'm making fabric grocery bags. When I decided to do this, it reminded me of the Plains Indians and how they found a use for every piece of the buffalo and wasted nothing.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -Artistotle
2 comments:
Ooh - you soooooooo are in the Use Every Part of the Beast Club, now my friend.
I love this!
And I am aware of the irony that the closest I've gotten to living off the land is to reuse elastic from someone else's sheet. It makes me laugh every time.)
You said it so right! That is Funny. We are the modern "pioneers" of "Trashion!" there is a wonderful description of this word in Wikipedia.
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