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Any uses for shredded paper?

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  • purpleivy
    purpleivy Posts: 3,674 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    We aren't allowed ot put shredded paper in our recycling bin. Dunno why.
    [SIZE=-1]"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"[/SIZE]
    Trying not to waste food!:j
    ETA Philosophy is wondering whether a Bloody Mary counts as a Smoothie
  • anniewoo
    anniewoo Posts: 469 Forumite
    purpleivy wrote: »
    We aren't allowed ot put shredded paper in our recycling bin. Dunno why.

    I am not allowed to this either,apparently it clogs up the machinery where the paper is sorted :confused:
  • cooking-mama
    cooking-mama Posts: 2,069 Forumite
    we use it for guinea pig bedding-
    Slimming World..Wk1,..STS,..Wk2,..-2LB,..Wk3,..-3.5lb,..Wk4,..-2.5,..Wk5,..-1/2lb,Wk6,..STS,..Wk7,..-1lb.
    Week 10,total weightloss is now 13.5lbs Week 11 STSweek 14(I think)..-2, total loss now 1 stone exactly
    GOT TO TARGET..1/2lb under now weigh 10st 6.5(lost 1st 3.5lbs)
  • lizimuffin
    lizimuffin Posts: 151 Forumite
    Hi, I use mine in my cats litter box, she prefers it to the shop bought stuff. So, it recycles it, makes my !!!!! cat happy, and I dont think any identity would want to go sifting through cat litter!
  • lizimuffin
    lizimuffin Posts: 151 Forumite
    Sorry I meant identity thief.
  • poppett
    poppett Posts: 897 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Before we moved house I did a shedload of shredding and then advertised it all on freecycle as pet bedding.
    £2 savers club. No.90. Aim £500.
  • Alison_Funnell
    Alison_Funnell Posts: 811 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Stuffing draught excluders, making a haybox, papier mache crafts...

    ... that's it off the top of my head. I'll try to think of more.
    Put the kettle on. ;)
  • pink_numbers
    pink_numbers Posts: 917 Forumite
    NOT use as packing for yarns, as one yarn company did.

    HOURS of picking tiny pieces of paper off my yarns.
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,225 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread ;)

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • Kadeeae
    Kadeeae Posts: 652 Forumite
    500 Posts
    Thanks, Penny.

    Lots more ideas than I would have come up with :T
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