Calendars

Uncommon frugal living uses for calendars.

Drawer Liners - To keep your drawers looking attractive and easy to clean, line drawers with pages from an old calendar.

Jigsaw Puzzle - Cut out the pictures and paste onto a piece of cardboard. Then cut into pieces to make an original jigsaw puzzle for your kids. You could even get the kids to help you make them and is a great frugal activity to keep your kids amused during those wet weekend days.

Place Mats - It seems a shame that the lovely pictures in an old calendar go to waste and aren't seen for longer than the one month they are on show. To make attractive tablemats cut the pictures out and paste onto thin board or cork and varnish the picture or cover with sticky back plastic.

Collage Cover - Cover plain storage boxes with a collage of several pictures from a calendar. This method can also be used to cover exercise books, diaries or picture frames.

Greeting Cards - Instead of spending a fortune on greeting cards why not make your own by using the pictures cut out from a small calendar or from the small thumbnail pictures on the back. Simply paste the picture on to a folded piece of coloured card.

Wallpaper - A box room or storage area can look rather dull and uninteresting. Why not cover the walls in pages from a calendar. You can either place them in an orderly fashion or at random angles for a more interesting pattern.

New years eve table cloth - For a really unusual cover for a table at a new years eve party why not use the pages from the past years calendar and stick them onto a large piece of paper to create a end of year table cloth. This idea could also be used as a Christmas decoration.

(Tips from Readers Digest Practical Problem Solver)

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