Pea
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Cardboard TubesAll winter I have been saving the card inserts from toilet roll, kitchen roll and any others I can get my hands on. The shorter tubes I will use as root trainers for my sweet peas and the longer ones Im hoping to use for blanching my leeks( I will win the leek comp this year  )
Does anyone else use these tubes for anything else useful?
Pea
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Penny
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Often use a few for crackers at Christmas (although didn't get round to it this year  ) Last year I started off sweetcorn in some, but they weren't much good - probably becuase they didn't get looked after though 
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cab
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I start early peas off in them. Sometimes betroot too.
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hayles62
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The airiate the compost bin beautifully 
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hardworkinghippy
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A long time ago I made the decision to blow each empty toilet or kitchen roll like a trumpet to celibrate life and silliness. 
I've never missed once since I made the pact - even though I haven't always felt like it, (I'm a grumpy bitch sometimes.) I do it anyway and it helps to "ground" me. (A sort of private telling off.)
When I'm feeling normal - ie. energetic and positive, I give it laldy and it's a very good, cheap, recyclable, biodegradable therapy and wonderful for the lungs. 
This is the first time I've ever told anybody else about this. Even Fabrice doesn't know, although he might suspect something...
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aussie
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..and not just a trumpert-they make great didgeridoos.
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cir3ngirl
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Talks are under way between me and the gerbils as to this years division of tubes. The present rate (gerbils 100%) cannot continue. They have so far put their very small feet down so what can I do? I have explained they can eat their share of the veg and they are now thinking it over.
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Fee
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| cir3ngirl wrote: | | Talks are under way between me and the gerbils as to this years division of tubes. The present rate (gerbils 100%) cannot continue. They have so far put their very small feet down so what can I do? I have explained they can eat their share of the veg and they are now thinking it over. |
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Penny
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| cir3ngirl wrote: | | Talks are under way between me and the gerbils as to this years division of tubes. The present rate (gerbils 100%) cannot continue. They have so far put their very small feet down so what can I do? I have explained they can eat their share of the veg and they are now thinking it over. |
Nasty little blighters they can be, those Gerbils, when they don't get their own way mind!
HWH - that is an excellent use for them!
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lottie
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i've used them succesfully with parsnips and carrots---after being told by "experts" it wouldn't work---better germination and easy to space. 
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Tinks
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Excuse me but what are you all talking about? They are not mere cardboard tubes to be used for such mundane thinks as trumpeting, planting or eating by gerbils......oh no!!!
They make super attachments for powerful rockets, jet engines for turbo-dragsters ard telescopes for spotting pirates.
Ask a four year old boy......he is, of course, right beyond question....
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Jamanda
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| Tinks wrote: | Excuse me but what are you all talking about? They are not mere cardboard tubes to be used for such mundane thinks as trumpeting, planting or eating by gerbils......oh no!!!
They make super attachments for powerful rockets, jet engines for turbo-dragsters ard telescopes for spotting pirates.
Ask a four year old boy......he is, of course, right beyond question.... |
That's pretty much where all ours go too. That and the toilet roll craft puppets off DTLK kids.
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cab
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Hardworkinghippy, you are now my hero. Thank you so much for sharing that
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MarkS
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I am only surprized that HWH actually buys toilet roll. If anyone had asked (since it really isnt a topic I had previously considerd) I would have said she made her own from compacted grass powered by a small water mill or something.
hwh is a hero to me for actually doing so much of the stuff that I only think about.
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tahir
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| MarkS wrote: | | hwh is a hero to me for actually doing so much of the stuff that I only think about. |
I think she's a hero for us all, not the only one on here though.
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hardworkinghippy
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Cripes I thought you'd all think I was a nutter when I said that, or even offended because I wasn't being serious... 
I go a bit quiet when people say nice things, but I love it and it makes up for all the stuff I get from people who think I've "opted out" because I just can't hack real life. So thank you very much.
Tahir's right though, loads of people in here are doing loads of things and as I'm a bit older than a lot of you it makes sense that I'm a bit further on...
Anyway, toilet rolls... I've also used them drying stuff by just popping the things inside (seed heads of Echinacea etc.) folding over all the ends and putting them somewhere warmish. You can write what's in the package it if you think you'll not be able to identify the shape when you find them again for use.
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bloomeenee
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| hardworkinghippy wrote: | | it makes up for all the stuff I get from people who think I've "opted out" because I just can't hack real life. |
I always think that's weird... exactly what do these people think is not real about what they think of as "opting out"... I think its just jealousy
Anyway... the trumpeting is perfectly normal..... in fact I always thought it was obligatory.
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MarkS
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| tahir wrote: | | MarkS wrote: | | hwh is a hero to me for actually doing so much of the stuff that I only think about. |
I think she's a hero for us all, not the only one on here though. |
Indeed, but not many are off-grid  , and I might want to go look at that one day - so get the crawling in early
Move along, no trumpets here.
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Mrs Fiddlesticks
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| hardworkinghippy wrote: | Cripes I thought you'd all think I was a nutter when I said that, or even offended because I wasn't being serious...
I go a bit quiet when people say nice things, but I love it and it makes up for all the stuff I get from people who think I've "opted out" because I just can't hack real life. So thank you very much.
Tahir's right though, loads of people in here are doing loads of things and as I'm a bit older than a lot of you it makes sense that I'm a bit further on...
Anyway, toilet rolls... I've also used them drying stuff by just popping the things inside (seed heads of Echinacea etc.) folding over all the ends and putting them somewhere warmish. You can write what's in the package it if you think you'll not be able to identify the shape when you find them again for use. |
I think its a lovely idea, and there should be more room for things like that in our lives. So to avoid derailing this one I've started a thread about that - the little practises that help!
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gil
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Love the trumpet idea, hwh !
I put mine in compost bins (like hayles62) for air space and brown matter.
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ros
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we turn them into mini logs by packing as many as possible in to one outer one. kids enjoy the challenge as to whose has the most packed together and burns the longest!
but HWH, I shall blow each like a trumpet first in future!
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thos
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| bloomeenee wrote: | NASA spent $3billion developing a pen that could be used in zero gravity.
The russians took pencils.
D |
Sorry, this is often quoted, but wrong. Pencils break, and a small sharp piece of graphite is not what you want to have floating around a space capsule.
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cab
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I bought one of those 'space pens' way, way back when I was a waiter in a Harry Ramsdens restaurant. Best pens ever, they carry right on over grease spots and work at any angle without leaking or going wrong.
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hedgewitch
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HWH, I do that too
When I was a kid, the dog I had then used to go mad if you blew, trumpet-like down the end of these tubes. I've never got out of the habit. Dogs I've had since haven't really been that interested, but our terrier pup finds it lots of fun, and that makes it even better
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judith
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| hedgewitch wrote: | | When I was a kid, the dog I had then used to go mad if you blew, trumpet-like down the end of these tubes. I've never got out of the habit. Dogs I've had since haven't really been that interested, but our terrier pup finds it lots of fun, and that makes it even better |
You did that too?
We had one dog that would howl along as you trumpeted.
Used to drive my Mum mad!
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bloomeenee
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| thos wrote: | | bloomeenee wrote: | NASA spent $3billion developing a pen that could be used in zero gravity.
The russians took pencils.
D |
Sorry, this is often quoted, but wrong. Pencils break, and a small sharp piece of graphite is not what you want to have floating around a space capsule. |
Hmmmm good point (no pun intended )
One should never let facts get in the way of a good quote eh?
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gingerwelly
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i use them to grow trees .... during the autum i collect seeds ...acorns etc and use the tubes to start the trees off .... i fit about 50 into a old cat litter tray, fill them with compost and leaf litter, then after about 12months plant the trees out.
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hedgewitch
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| judith wrote: | | hedgewitch wrote: | | When I was a kid, the dog I had then used to go mad if you blew, trumpet-like down the end of these tubes. I've never got out of the habit. Dogs I've had since haven't really been that interested, but our terrier pup finds it lots of fun, and that makes it even better |
You did that too?
We had one dog that would howl along as you trumpeted.
Used to drive my Mum mad! |
Yep - exactly the same scene, I think
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mochyn
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HWH: What is your avatar? Teeth?
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missysx
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our new chinese dwarf hamsters have ours. our old hamster used to get them.. til she died last week 
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hardworkinghippy
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RIP old hamster.  I hope she died happy.
Mochyn, Yes, Didi's milk teeth. I got 9.
Must be a record.
The tooth fairy did well here last month. 
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mochyn
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I now have visions of Downsizers all over the world blowing trumpet-style through loo-rool tubes! Maybe we should make it a sort of necessity for membership of the site?
And I hope the hamster was buried in a tube...
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hedgewitch
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| hardworkinghippy wrote: | Mochyn, Yes, Didi's milk teeth. I got 9.
Must be a record.
The tooth fairy did well here last month. |
I only found one milk tooth from Dub. Think the rest are probably in a rabbit
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lassemista
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| Quote: | | We had one dog that would howl along as you trumpeted |
Going off topic, but I have one dog who "sings" along with the Archers theme tune, but only the closing one and not the weekend one. She did it when she was a youngster, then stopped for years, then nearly made me crash when she started again when we were away in the camper van. It was almost as if she was celebrating being an only dog again
Andrea.
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