Reuse Your Old Panty Hose Rather than Chucking in the Trash

I swear I only wear a pair of panty hose one time since I evidently run my hose.  Instead of throwing them out, I decided to take a new approach. Putting on the old green thinking cap, I ponder how can I reuse them? Everything has to have many lives just like cats?

Let’s look at what panty hose are made of .  An elastic  material.  Anything that is elastic has to lend itself to a multitude of re-uses.  Now in my case, I wear panty hose with a little support in them so they are thicker and have a lot more spring in them than the usual panty hose.  My panty hose have just doubled their capacity to be reused!

So, if we were in a biology class and dissecting the panty hose to find out what parts can be reused, I would determine the following:  The feet which could hold something.  Elastic legs could tie something. Finally,  the elastic waist band is just a large rubber band in my opinion.

Fortuitously, a light bulb came on in my head as I snapped the legs back and forth.  Why not fill the legs with human hair just like I did with a small bag in one of my reuse articles to prevent deer from destroying my plants? (For more reuse ideas, check out my category, “Reuse Tips.”) I previously had tied the small bag with human hair around a lilac bush which was chewed up by the deer in the winter. Next spring, lo and behold the deer stayed away from the bush. Now, would they get use to the smell of the hair and eat it next year? Who knows? Readers?

Sick of the deer eating plants that I was told they do not like AND having an abundance of boy hair from my kids, I started to stuff the feet and made two hair botties. I am currently using one in the front yard around the wild geraniums, which the deer love to eat their flowers and another one near a lilac bush.

But there are so many other ideas on how to reuse your panty hose for those of you who are not garden obsessed like me.  Here are some other ideas I came up with:

• Cut the legs into small bands to hold back your hair such as pony tails holders or scrunchies.
• Use the small bands to hold flowers in a vase.
• Use the  hose bands to hold together anything that you would use a rubber band. (Maps, wall paper rolls, etc.)
• Fill the feet with herbs to make satchels or potpourri.
• Tie vegetables or flowers  to cages, trellis, or fences.  I am going to make a slings to tie my winter squash to a trellis I bought from Gardeners Supply so the squash grows up the trellis.
• Use the hose as a strainer.
• Use the feet booties to hold small games such as marbles or Jacks.  Does anyone play that game anymore?
• Use the toe booties as jewelry bags.

What ideas do others have?  Check out the following posts:

• 20 ways to re-use your panty hose. My favorite is putting part of the hose over a vacuum cleaner when you are trying to find something small you lost.  The lost item will stick to your hose rather than be sucked up into the vacuum cleaner.  There are some great ideas in this article.
• Top 10 Ways to Reuse Panty Hose.  I like the idea of using the panty hose as a skimmer for your pool.

So, how have your re-used your panty hose?

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