Practical Problem Solver's advice for re-using cans. Every Christmas season, the ladies' magazines urge us to make our own outdoor lights -- simply take an empty can, wash it out and using a Phillips screw driver or equivalent, punch random or patterned holes in it. put in a lit candle and step back and admire your creation. In summer, use a citronella candle to repel bugs.
This sounded kind of redneck to me, but nail can lids over knotholes in the floor or inside the attic roof to keep rodents out.
Plant protector - cut off the top and bottom of the can, jam it into the dirt around a young seedling and protect it from cutworms. Cutworms are vicious! I was optiistically growing big pots of cherry tomatoes and butter lettuc on our balcony. They were moving along nicely until the morning I went to water them and they were literally all eaten down to the roots. Cutworms.
Campers! Save your empty cans and nestle them in order of size and take the stack with you for disposble pans. Don't forget to take a pair of pliers to handle them!
Got lots of company coming? Take two card tables, shove them together and put the middle legs in big cans, (I'm thinking those enormous cans of tomatoes) throw a table cloth over them and viola! A big sturdy table.
If you feed the birds suet in winter, put it in small cans that you can jam into tree branches.
Use them as miniature golf hazard tunnels. Tuna cans, both ends removed work well.
Make your own mini-basketball net. Flip up the top of a coffee can for the backboard, cut off the bottom and nail your "net" over the garage door, get a tennis ball and "Game on!"
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