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Well I cant think of one use never mind 101 ... so it up to you lot ...

I dont use them much any other time of the year but as it jam time etc I have quite a few over the next few months ....soooooooooo

1... lighting the fire just springs to mind ...

2. stuff full of kitchen scraps and put the whole thing on your compost

3. Use them for wrapping mucky items for the bin. Saves a plastic bin liner.

Zoe

4. Put paper bags in the recycling bags/bins/collection or whatever you have in your area! (Our sugar comes mainly in cardboard boxes).

My late-ex-mother-in-law used to fill them with coal and put them on the fire. Not sure why though.

Zoe

6. Cut circles out of them for the jam pots, then compost the rest
7. Use them to handwrite labels for your jam - stick them on with pritt stick.

Hi Thomzo,
Ever thrown sugar on the fire? Please don't. Processed sugar is really flammable, she would have used the sugar bags with the residue of sugar as a way of lighting the fire.

Thomzo wrote:My late-ex-mother-in-law used to fill them with coal and put them on the fire. Not sure why though.

Zoe

My Granny used to put coal in everything combustible that was big enough to put coal in. Cuppa Soup boxes were her favorite

She then flung the box/carton/container of coal onto her Rayburn (which sadly packed in about 5 years ago and was removed).

She is still ribbed when fumbling with a cardboard box of any description: "Now you could put coal in than mind...."

greenbean wrote:Hi Thomzo,
Ever thrown sugar on the fire? Please don't. Processed sugar is really flammable, she would have used the sugar bags with the residue of sugar as a way of lighting the fire.

Thanks for explaining that. Now I understand.

Cheers
Zoe

I use icing sugar boxes as postage boxes. they are fab for little ebay nicknacks and small aloes.



i try and blow out as much of the sugar as i can mind!!

9. Scrunch them up into a ball and throw for the cats to play with.

Hmm at this rate it's going to take us until 2020 to get to 100.

Zoe

I knew their only use was for sugar

10. cut along the side and bottom, hand a child a wax crayon and tell them to bugger off while you drink your tea.
11. cut in same way as above, make a paper hat
12. again cut in same way, use over the hand to pick up faeces: dog, horse, 18 month old child...
13. again cut, use to write a note to the postman saying that this is the 4th time he has posted a letter through your door which needs to be redelivered as it only bears the house number in common with your own. FFS, not even the bloody postcode is the same!!!
14.cut a hole in the top and 2 on the sides, poke a barbie through it. tie in the middle. play at "cavemen" or "tramps"
15. use to collect fruit in.

I think I'm out of ideas now.

lol .... I like the barbie dress...