DON'T THROW THAT OUT!

Spring cleaning has been taking place at our house. Though I must admit, it's really my wonderful sister, Patty, that does the cleaning around here. Yes, I'm spoiled! I know it.

The kitchen was taken apart, everything gone through and anything expired tossed out.

Sadly all these spices were expired and no longer good.

Patty thought it would be best to just purchase the spices as we need them rather then buy all of them at once, only to have them end up expiring again before we even used them. I agree. That makes more since and is much more cost effective.

I asked her what she was going to do with the spice holder. She said "I don't know, donate it or toss it out"

Quickly I shouted "Don't throw that out!" I knew I could turn it into something useful.

I threw all the spices out, took the labels off and washed the jars.

The chrome was a bit off color so I took the lids and holder outside and gave it a good coat of white paint!

It looked new and fresh again.

My first thought was to put it in my office and fill it up with glitters of all colors.

But, since I don't do a lot of crafts I figured that would not be the best use for me.

Then I thought it would look pretty cute to use them as vases and put one flower in each jar.

I still think that that would be cute but I doubt if I would use it like that very often.

So I thought about selling it as I still thought the pretty colors of glitter in the jars would be great.

Then it hit me! I had tons of dragees in the pantry. You know those little balls used in cake decorating.

I had them in several different colors and some even in different shapes other then just balls.

So in they went! Yes, it's a perfect fit for me.

Before you ask, yes it's true, CA does not sell dragees. They claim the silver and gold in them do not digest and stays in your system. If you ate lots of them it would not be good for you. But come on! Who is going to sit down and eat cases of these things?

I ordered them off eBay. Some came from other states. Some even came from England and Canada. So if you live in CA, now you know where you can get them too.

The funny thing is, it's not legal to sell them in CA but it is legal to buy them and eat them. So no, I'm not breaking any laws.

But, they did open my packages from England. Customs opened them and tested them to make sure they were not anything I shouldn't have. They did that twice. I know because they seal up the package and put a note on there telling me what they did.