Most shelters will accept old blankets, bath towels, hand towels, sheets, pillows, pillowcases, bathroom rugs, and t-shirts. Place the blanket pad underneath the sheet cover and fit it to the ironing board.ĭonate old sheets and towels to local animal shelters. Then, lay the old ironing cover down on your sheet and cut out, cutting extra to cover the sides of the board. For the blanket pad, cut just the size of the ironing board top. Thick blankets make ideal ironing board pads but towels and old sheets work great too.

Plus, these old towels really soak up the water when you’re drying dishes. Or it is really cute to sew some bias tape around the edges. So, I cut them into dishtowel sizes, and hem the edges. I had a few towels that were so cute but the material they use to line the towels had shrunk making the towel look deformed. It is so easy and economical to just cut up and old towel into several smaller towels and store them in a drawer or bin. I always need rags for those nasty jobs around the house, washing the car, or other unpleasant tasks that you don’t want to use a nice towel for. This is my favorite ways to reuse towels. So, I did a little research and found out there are some really cool uses for old towels and sheets! Check out a few of my favorites. Since I am still frugal at heart I hate to just throw them away. A lot of them are still in really good shape. That is what is shown in the Camembert boxes CH linked to above.I recently cleaned out my linen closet only to realize that a good chunk of valuable space was being used up by old towels or sheets that no one ever uses anymore. I do use some of the cross stitch (found in the craft section of the big box stores - See CH post 2 up) material on top of these to keep the holes a little smaller and more manageable. The really nice thing about these is that they withstand the pressure and yet are about 1/2 tall so they allow for a considerable amount of whey to collect down there without contacting the cheese.

Similar to these and not the reflective ones but the standard white egg crate type. I've cut some that will fit my round pie tins that go under my press. The one sheet was about $12 and can make a ton of little mats. Cut very easily with a sidecutter but you have some shooting little white sprigs to control when you have to cut the second one out of there.

They come if 2 foot by 4 foot sheets and are used for diffusing fluorescent lights. Ok kidding aside - that very cool grate material is from Ace Hardware in the lighting section.

Cons: Slightly move expensive and cannot cut to fit size required.ĬH - that is a closely guarded secret and requires the secret handshake.

Excellent as cleaning of bacteria/mold as (relatively) non-porous. I found this in household sink mat's area of local convenience store, mine is from Walmart for $3.50.

Description: Flexible plastic mat with large holes and small bumps at +'s on one side for increased stand off.

Can roll in one direction to get size needed to fit, not in other.

Cons: Porous albeit plastic based material is hard to clean of all bacteria/mold.

Pros: Cheap and can be cut to size required.

Description: Foamed soft plastic gridded mat available in squares or rolls in many convenience stores, often in houshold draw liner departments or in automotive departments as this mat is used on dashborads as flexible/floppy in shape and somewhat gripy for holding items in place.

Pros: Cheap and can be used for making sushi! Different imprint on cheeses than standard bamboo sushi mat.

They are about 9.5 in x 9.25 in / 24 cm x 23.5 cm square and have large hafl circle bamboo rods, that are flat on one side and half circle on the other.

Description: Rollable bamboo sushi mat available in my local grocery store for USD2.50 each here in Texas.

Tough to highly clean of bacteria/mold as made of woven thread and porous wood.

Cons: Leaves an imprint of the thread line on the cheese's bottom even young/soft.

Pros: Cheap and can be used for making sushi!.

They are about 9 in x 9 in / 23 cm x cm square and have small round bamboo rods.

Description: Standard rollable bamboo sushi mat available in my local grocery store for USD1.50 each here in Texas.

Have experimented with 4 different mats for aging cheese on so far, description, pros and cons below:

Gridded matting walmart