Corks

Teerah

Hi everyone,

this may be a really stupid question but was wondering if there is anyway to reuse corks from wine bottles/use them to make something else or should they just be binned?? Thanks

VickyA_2

A friend used to cut hers in half and eventually had enough to make a cork notice board. A good way to remember all those good (and bad?) bottles of wine. Just like this one:m

Wirenth

Try 'crumbling them up' and using them to line the bottom of a pot before repotting any of your garden plants.

Teerah

Thanks guys Havent quite enough to make a notice board yet though but both good ideas thanks

purplegirluk1

Make an Aussie hat!!!!!!!!

Lemoncurd

If you can't find something you want to use them for yourself sell them on Ebay "for craft use". This was something I looked at a while back and was amazed to see some used corks going for £5!

pavlovs_dog

my grampy used to make a slit across the top, wedge in a silver coin and give them away - its supposed to bring good luck?!

another use for cork im aware of is using them to make keyrings - especially handy if you know any keen anglers or boaters - as cork floats, so if they drop their keys in the water they shouldnt sink

if you have kids, you can carve shapes into the cork and use them as paint stampers

calleyw

pavlovs_dog wrote:

my grampy used to make a slit across the top, wedge in a silver coin and give them away - its supposed to bring good luck?!

I thought that only suppose to be done with champers and not just any old bottle of wine and for a special occasions only.

As when I was due to get married I went out with work colleagues to a BYO Restaurant and I bought some bottles of champers to celebrate with and one of them cut a slit in the cork and stuck a 50p in it.

That was nearly 6 years ago and I still have it.

Yours

Calley

Pink.

Not a lot of use to you Teerah, but I have an elderly neighbour who suffered badly from cramp in his legs at night. Someone told him to put a cork in his bed...he did it and he swears it works and hasn't had cramp since.

My sister made a lovely cork notice board that hangs in her kitchen. Bearing in mind that it's coming up to the festive season could you ask friends and family to save their corks for you until you have enough to make a notice board?

Pink

bugs

Always intended to do the noticeboard but never got around to it. I think there was a garden/show somewhere that used them as a mulch for flooring but that would take quantities that even I can't manage :rotfl:

Practically - real corks (ie not the plastic or sponge ones - well you never know!) make pretty good firelighters if you can do nothing else with them. And you can dispose of a fair few in the garden as cane toppers (very very important if you use them).

I imagine that given the corkboard use a scrapscheme might use them if you can find one near you.

Bogof_Babe

I hang on to a few because occasionally a bottle of sparkling wine has the type of cork that you can't get back into the neck of the bottle once opened, so they are handy for keeping the remains of a bottle in the fridge until next day.