174. Water Bottle

Best Place To Purchase: Grocery stores, Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, Amazon
Average Product Price: $1*
Wasps are pesky little insects that can pack quite a punch, should you be so unfortunate as to have them sting you. These malicious bugs can be trapped—and at a low cost, too. Using a water bottle or soda bottle as a wasp trap is a popular DIY way to get rid of them. The size of the bottle you use depends on how serious your wasp problem is.

Water Bottle As Wasp Trap @lenwahoo/Pinterest
First, cut the top off the bottle, two or three inches down from the cap. Then, bait the trap. In spring and early summer, place lunch meat or hamburger into the trap. In the fall and late summer, use something sugary. Add liquid into the trap. Take the top of your bottle and unscrew the cap, placing it cap-side down into the bottle. Wasps will fly in, attracted to the food, but they will not be able to get out.

175. Eyeliner

Best Place To Purchase: Sephora, Ulta, Target
Average Product Price: $5-$40*
If you have an old eyeliner pencil that is too dated to use on the delicate skin of your eyes, yet you aren’t ready to say goodbye to it yet, we have good news. There are a lot of things you can do with this old pen or pencil, including giving yourself a temporary tattoo. When you’re done creating your drawing, spray it with makeup setting spray.

Eyeliner As Temporary Tattoo @wikihow/Pinterest
You can use liquid liners to outline and pencils to shade. Additionally, you can even use eyeliner as an artistic tool for canvas. It can make a DIY graphite pencil or piece of charcoal if you’re feeling artistically inspired.

176. Vaseline

Best Place To Purchase: Drug stores, Amazon, Walmart
Average Product Price: $4.94 for 13oz. jar*
Old lipstick is yet another cosmetic tool on this list that doesn’t have to be discarded within the expiration date, even if it dries out. Vaseline can revive old lipstick, turning it into a shimmery balm. First, place a spoonful of Vaseline into a plastic bag. Cut off a one-quarter inch of the old lipstick and add it to the bag.

Vaseline As Colored Lip Balm @skeaatwbi8/Pinterest
Seal the bag and massage the lipstick and Vaseline together. Snip off a corner from the bag and squeeze the lip gloss into a small, empty container. If you want to make your new balm really fancy, you can add coconut oil or even cosmetic-grade glitter.

177. Candles

Best Place To Purchase: Bed Bath & Beyond, Dollar stores, Target
Average Product Price: $3-$10*
Sealing a letter shut is a fancy way to make an invitation. But, what happens if you don’t have any letter-sealing wax on hand? If you have a candle, you’re in luck. After all, a wax seal is made from melting wax, pressed onto a letter, and stamped with a metal seal.

Candle To Seal Letters @shopify/Pinterest
Remove small chunks of the old candle and melt them over the stove. Pour a small amount (about a half-dollar size) and press it down with your seal. Allow it to cool. As an added bonus, if you use a scented candle, your letter’s recipient will get a nice smell when they receive your correspondence.

178. Lemons

Best Place To Purchase: Grocery stores
Average Product Price: $0.63*
If you’ve ever put spaghetti or some other super-staining food into Tupperware, then you know how easily the plastic container stains. It might seem as though you’ll never be able to get those orangey-red stains out. But, the solution is closer than you think. You can use a lemon.
Lemon To Clean Stubborn Tupperware Stains @Real Simple/Youtube
Cut one lemon in half. Rub the open side of the half around the container, squeezing the juice from the fruit continuously. Allow the container to sit outside in the sun for one or two days. Allow the sun and juice to team up to get the stains out. After letting the Tupperware sit, rinse it out to make it good as new.

179. Old Sheets

Best Place To Purchase: Bed Bath & Beyond, Amazon, Target
Average Product Price: $20-$40*
Do you have old sheets that you don’t know what to do with? Short of turning them into clothing (sort of like how curtains were turned into clothes in The Sound of Music), you can make them into reusable shopping bags. Most of us have at least one or two of these bags laying around, and we can always use more.

Old Sheets Into Shopping Bags @vintagesheets/Pinterest
You’ll need some sewing know-how and materials, but, luckily, there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube by accounts like @Howcast that can help. This way, you don’t have to toss more fabric into the landfill, upcycling your old sheets into something helpful.

180. Dry Spaghetti Noodle

Best Place To Purchase: Grocery stores, Amazon, Costco, Sam’s Club
Average Product Price: $1.09 per pound*
When you’re baking, it’s always important to check and make sure your cakes, cookies, brownies, and other sweet treats are done before you take them out of the oven. Sure, you might want to eat them right away, but an uncooked pastry could spell a nasty bout of the stomach bug.

Dry Spaghetti Noodle As Toothpick @ciaobellissima/Pinterest
Generally, the most common way to check if one of these baked goods is done is to use a toothpick or a fork. But, what if you’re out of toothpicks and your forks are in the dishwasher? You can use a dry, uncooked spaghetti noodle instead for the same purpose.

181. Two-Liter Bottle

Best Place To Purchase: Grocery stores, Costco
Average Product Price: $1.48*
This is a fun activity, whether you’re a kid or an adult who likes gardening. Most of us, on some level, are at least making some effort to be eco-friendly. One way to throw less plastic into the landfill is to repurpose and upcycle what you can. For example, you can turn an empty clean two-liter bottle into a terrarium.

Two-Liter To Terrarium @patrakeevadaria/Pinterest
Cut the top of the bottle off, about six inches from the bottom. Save the top for later. Then, fill with soil and seeds and replace the top. Water and place in the sun. The plastic bottle will act as a greenhouse, helping your plants sprout up slowly but surely.

182. Old iPad

Best Place To Purchase: Apple, Best Buy
Average Product Price: $329-$1,200*
Almost all of us have an old iPad or iPhone lying around. It seems weird to throw these things away, doesn’t it? After all, they have sensitive data on them. That sensitive data is why you can turn your old tech into a DIY photo album.

Old iPad As Photo Album @ohohohmar10/Pinterest
Rather than move your photos from one device to another, taking up storage on the latter, keep the photos on the old device. Keep it charged and usable. Though it isn’t an actual working iPad or iPhone, you can still turn it on when you want to look at your old photos.

183. Old Tire

Best Place To Purchase: Walmart, Discount Tire Direct, Costco, Sam’s Club, Tire Rack
Average Product Price: $50-$150*
Working out doesn’t always have to involve a pricey gym membership or the latest in high-tech equipment. Sometimes, tried-and-true classics can work. Tires are heavy—and they come in various weights as well. You can use these tires to work out. Flip, drag, or throw them, and they’ll work your upper body, back, and core.

Tire flipping is an exercise that especially works out the entire posterior chain (i.e. from your glutes to the back of your leg). It also works your deltoids and trapezius muscles. Instead of throwing out an old tire, repurpose it into workout equipment.