....do these gross you out/scare you?
TP roll crafts, an easy solution is to use a PT roll instead.
But egg shell/crate crafts kinda scare me!
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Hmm. Maybe I'm just missing something, but I'm not sure why these would be gross. Egg crates are awesome for crafts!
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In a word: yes.
My easy argument against TP tubes is that they don't make 'em like they used to. The ones these days are pretty darn flimsy and almost guaranteed to be destroyed unintentionally by the preschooler who handles them. I seem to recall fairly sturdy tubes growing up; most of the ones I throw out now are half-flattened or unraveling by the time their original use is served. Same low quality tubing in paper towels, too, I'm afraid. For tubing, the best bet is wrapping paper.
I can't do egg crates, even though I've never had a problem with salmonella. I might be down with using the plastic ones if they were really well scrubbed, but in reality, those get pitched and I save the clamshells with stone fruits in them from Costco. Those are also washable and have bigger and a greater assortment of holes. And their prior occupants didn't come out of a chicken's nether regions.
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Ahhhh. I get it now. Obviously, I haven't made crafts in years
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@honeybear: glad I'm not the only one! I see them on Pinterest all the time and it weird me out. I reuse egg crates to take to the farmers market but I use a plastic one that I can wash out. As far as TP goes, I mean honestly people are constantly using dirty hands to grab on that. Even if it is only the edge that is exposed, it still seems icky to me. Plus when the roll is done, there's a high chance that dirty hands will touch it to replace the roll.....
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@Mrs. Sketchbook: thanks to your thread I may just throw away my stock pile if TP rolls. I planned to make these with them...
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: ok now I am so sad!
Actually one year I made christmas wrappings like that for jewelry and only after wrapping them was I like, will someone be grossed out by this? I still used them!! Still, the end of innocence.
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They don't creep me out at all... I guess I feel like those icky germs are dead and gone by the time I actually get around to making something with them? And if they're not, then they'll help build her immunity
To me, a PT roll would be "grosser" because of handling raw chicken and other things in the kitchen, but neither one makes me blink an eye.
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