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Real Simple Giveaway New Uses for Old Things Book

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An Encyclopedia of Innovative Ideas for Everyday Items.

Real Simple

You can win 1 of 2 copies of the Real Simple 869 New Uses for Old Things: An Encyclopedia of Innovative Ideas for Everyday Items.

Need some help organizing your home? Maybe you have some things laying around that you think you might have use for some day, well, this may just be the book for you!

Real Simple Magazineand the amazing website give us great organization ideas, beauty tips, recipes, useful tools and more. This month they have a great (and timely) organization issue:

Real simple

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Product Description

“New Uses For Old Things” is one of Real Simple’s most popular franchises. It showcases how to repurpose everyday items in clever ways. These ideas appeal to readers because they’re a) economical, b) green, and c) surprising.Over the past decade, Real Simple has developed 800-plus ideas for all sorts of common items, from accordion files to zippered plastic bags. It seems fitting that in honor of their ten-year anniversary, they’d give readers the opportunity to enjoy these ideas in one convenient place.

Here are a few other books from Real Simple that will help you get organized:
Real Simple: The Organized Home

How to win:

Mandatory Entry – Leave a comment telling me one thing you have in a junk drawer or keep lying around ‘just in case’.

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Find a #newuse for 800+ old things. Enter to #win 1 of 2 @Real_Simple #books @beingtazim http://j.mp/l8BdvW US/CAN 05/30 #giveaway

There are a total of 6 ways to enter. Giveaway ends May 30th at midnight PST. Winner randomly selected using And The Winner Is plug-in. 2 winners will be selected and will have 48 hours to respond before new winners are chosen. I was not compensated in any way for hosting this giveaway. I just thought that my readers would enjoy this book! Real Simple 869 New Uses for Old Things: An Encyclopedia of Innovative Ideas for Everyday ItemsHome & Garden Books)

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Filed Under: Giveaways, Organization Tagged With: home organization event 2011, tips

About Tazim Damji

Tazim Damji is a permaculture gardener and certified holistic nutritionist from Vancouver, Canada. She is passionate about photography, vegan food, and gardening. Read more posts by Tazim. Visit her food and adventure blog Celebrate Life's Adventures Connect with Tazim via Twitter or on Facebook .

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  1. dianad says

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    A drawer full of tie twists that my husband keeps saving. I throw some out every 6 months or so. That's just naming one item. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway

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    I have so many twist ties and buttons

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    I have lots of old pantyhose- I cut these into long strips for tying plants to stakes.

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  12. Constance says

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    Coffee containers. I think I can find a good use for them. A craft maybe.

  13. Maureen says

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    i have a few things of which rubber bands and paper clips are just two of the items.

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    I keep a bunch of random sized rubber bands in my desk drawer "just in case" They have definitely come in handy more than a few times!

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    Duck tape LOL

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    no junk drawer honestly but old ts

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      sorry got soo excited about that had to share it and the item lying around in my drawers lately are my prescription medicine bottles… for?
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    I keep an old tape measure that tells you how to measure bust, waist and hips properly.

  26. Shilo Beedy says

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    I have toothpicks randomly through in my junk drawer

  27. HeatherM says

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    we have tons of rubber bands and twist ties in our junk drawer!

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  29. HeatherM says

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  30. Meg says

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    Screws. Our junk drawer has screws from everything. Hubby just can't bear to get rid of them b/c "you never know when you'll need them". LOL

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    I keep old pieces of tinfoil, and bread bag clips! Not sure why, but I do!

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  36. Kelley says

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    I have a manual can opener in my junk drawer. It's been there for about 10 years, since I moved into this house. Every time I see it I think, "I should really donate that." But I'm convinced the moment I do so, my electric can opener will die and I will have no way to open my cans.

  37. bitt says

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    I keep around old tapes in case somehow we might be able to use them again.

  38. Mary Preston says

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    Rubber bands get thrown in a drawer: some so old they are useless.

  39. Holly says

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    Paper clips I have lying around

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  40. Rachel says

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    I have old rubber bands. You never know when they could come in handy

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  41. Erin says

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    I have a kajillion elastics and twist ties stored in my junk drawer!

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  46. Betty says

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    My junk drawer has a number of screws in it. It's amazing what all they can fall out of, from toys to computers. If I throw one away, it's guaranteed someone promptly will complain that the arm on a computer chair is 'loose'.

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  55. Paula says

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    Rubber bands for some reason. We save rubber bands off of everything!!

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  56. angie says

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    I keep rubber bands. They always come in handy.

  57. Erin Nicole says

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    I want this book sooo badly! One thing I keep lying around in a junk drawer is buttons! I have tons
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    I always have lots of scotch tape and batteries in my junk drawer just incase.

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    I keep containers, bags, ribbon, boxes, cards w/pretty pictures…
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    Plastic grocery store bags…. Love them in the bathroom garbage cans, But I have a hoard of them

  78. hslater351 says

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    A screwdriver.

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    I follow you and posted the tweet. http://twitter.com/#!/HSlater351/status/739028061…

  81. Laura P. says

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    Buttons, Elastics and Twist Ties.
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    I follow Real Simple on Twitter as Bookloon.

  84. Nina says

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    lots of buttons

  85. ashley says

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    paper clips.. i'm not sure what i need them for though

  86. Sverige says

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  87. kittenish says

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    I save those envelopes for ordering magazine subscriptions just in case I need an envelope to send something or to use for organizing.

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  94. April Bever says

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    I keep all screws just incase I will need that size

  95. Emmy says

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  96. Bev says

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    magazines in case I might ever need something from one of them

  97. Colleen S says

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    Ha. I have a hair net in my junk drawer..

  98. Michelle Spayde says

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  102. jeanine gordon says

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    I have an electric knife….so rare i ever use it

  103. Diane Baum says

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    one thing huh….I have an old easy bake oven…just in case….Just in case…I don't know, I have a real stove, microwave, toaster oven and two sons!

  104. marly says

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  105. Tonya Dean says

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  107. Myriam says

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  108. Vicki D. says

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    I keep a padlock just in case, which I know I'll never use.

  109. James Coyne says

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    i keep a flashlight in the junk drawer

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  114. Julie M says

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    I have piles of craft supplies – felt pieces, wooden buttons, pin backs, glue sticks – thinking "someday" the kids would need them for school..

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  116. Donna B. says

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    Rubber bands – why, I dunno. LOL

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  121. Mary Gardner says

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    I keep scissors in my junk drawer.

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    I have an old crochet hook in my junk drawer………just in case?
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  131. Lisa L says

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    I save bubble wrap..in case I need to ship something. I just feel bad throwing it away.

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    in my junk drawer i have tons of playing cards

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    Thanks for the giveaway…we have a box of blank cassette tapes in one of our closets, just in case that format makes a comeback !

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    I have a bunch of fabric scraps. I keep intending to make a quilt.

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    Wrenches.

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