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Show How to Re-Use Gift Boxes, Cans Don't be too quick to throw out those good boxes or cartons that hold your family's Christmas gifts you can make them into handsome containers for everything from hair rollers roll-ers to sewing materials, not forgetting the canisters and cookie tins you can make out of those plastic-lidded coffee cans! Cover your boxes and coffee cof-fee cans with self-adhesive plastic, decorate them with braid or tape, and label them with cut-out letters. It's easy to do with self stick plastic just make sure surface of box or tin is clean and dry. Then cut your plastic to fit, allowing for an overlap at seams or edges, and press it down smoothly. Or you can use fabric or gift paper, which you'll have to glue on. It's a great way to "recycle" "re-cycle" your boxes and cans and you'll have attractive containers for all sorts of things, in kitchen, bathroom, bath-room, or at desk or phone. You can make a pretty pencil jug out of a juice can . . . and never again have to say, "Wait till I find a pencil," pen-cil," while you're talking on the phone! h |