| 1. |
Fill them with rice and make some juggling balls. |
| 2. |
If you collect rain water from your gutter, stick one over theend of your drain pipe to filter out leaves and other debris. |
| 3. |
A bar of soap in the foot then tied to an outdoor tap for cleaning up with after gardening. |
| 4. |
Use the tops of support pantyhose (i.e. the parts that go around your bottom) to line hanging baskets. |
| 5. |
I use old tights for polishing sink faucets, getting rid of water droplets and water stains after cleaning. I find the fine nylon moves around the tap much better than a thick cloth. |
| 6. |
I use old tights to store spring bulbs after they’ve been lifted from the garden. Then hang the tights in the shed - the air circulation stops the bulbs going moldy. |
| 7. |
I braided together six legs of hose, knot at both ends and use as pull toy for my dog - he loves it! |
| 8. |
I cut them up into ties for my plants or for tying old newspapers in a bundle. |
| 9. |
Put a used tennis ball in them and swing them around. Then let go of them, and they will fly pretty far. My dog goes wild. |
| 10. |
My granny uses old tights cut into small ribbons for tying up plants in the garden. and in fact for tying up anything that requires tying up. |
| 11. |
My mom attaches stockings to the end of the exit pipe from the washing machine to filter out the soap suds and lint. When the stocking fills up, just replace with another stocking. This prevents the lint from clocking the drain. |
| 12. |
If you have an old jar and an elastic band you can make a seed sprouter by covering the mouth of the jar with material cut from your old tights.
Here’s some instructions on sprouting seeds.
http://weblife.org/sprouting.html |
| 13. |
My father in law stores his onions in my sister-in-laws used tights - with a knot in between each onion. |
| 14. |
I often use Support Hose to clean out fish tank rocks. If you put the rocks in the foot section and start rinsing them out, they can get so clean. |
| 15. |
Do what my dad did with all our old tights, Use them to strain old paint. When you haven’t used paint for a while it goes lumpy and sometimes get rust in it, sieve it using tights. |
| 16. |
I keep a few pairs of them in the trunk of my car. They are far better than rope to secure the lid when hauling, and I lose nothing if I have to cut them to remove items. |
| 17. |
If you have shoes or boots that have to be polished use them to shine shoes after brushing the shoes after applying polish. They work great! |
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