Ways to Recycle the Items Your Baby Outgrows

With the growing prices of baby products and clothing, along with the rapid growth of your children, it can be disheartening to have to throw away expensive items that your children barely used. With creativity and patience, there are several ways to re-use baby items. Items intended to suit your children's needs can also serve as entertaining toys, money makers, and replace some normal household items.

With three little ones at home, It is easy to accumulate necessities in bulk. It is also hard to stay organized because more items mean less space, and in turn, means more clutter. Some things will need to go to the trash, but many items your child once used can be transformed into something more beneficial. Personally, I have found that recycling these products has saved money and provided several meaningful purposes in my household.

For starters, I have over thirty bottles in my house. My first reaction was to throw all of the bottles away and then I discoved a way for these bottles to serve as entertainment to my children. Because of my children's love for sound and music, I decided to take ten of the bottles and fill them with objects such as beans, pennies, sugar, buttons, and bells. I put super-glue inside of the lid and screwed the top on firmly to prevent spillage and accidents. I must say that these "musical" shakers keep my children occupied for long periods of time. Although we love our fisher price toys, this served as a cheap way to provide the same amount of entainment. Bottles can also serve the pupose to store juices. My children drink sippy cups which are not leak proof and seem impossible to pack in a diaper bag without flooding their necessities. I use the bottles to pack their drinks in and simply transfer them to their cups. This saves money by not having to buy individual juice boxes, but instead allows me to buy juice in the bottles. Sadly this may be considered as "cheap", but with three infants every penny counts.