Keep or toss: egg cartons

**cheriede** · 06-18-2007, 08:45 PM

What do you do with your empty egg cartons?

I usually keep mine for kids. My girls scouts can use them for a project or I will give them to the preschool at DD school.

**Holly** · 06-18-2007, 09:07 PM

I keep them for the eggs from the barn. when i get to many they
go into the burn barrel

**Neeley** · 06-18-2007, 09:25 PM

I sound like a broken record....trash them.

**Katybird** · 06-18-2007, 09:36 PM

My inlaws sell fresh eggs so I save them for them.

**monkeywrangler71** · 06-18-2007, 10:53 PM

I keep about a dozen or so, the rest go in the compost. I have them for the kids to play with and crafts. I did start seedlings in some, but I am a terrible gardener and accidently left everything outside in the frost.

**Cricket1** · 06-18-2007, 10:59 PM

These go to the preschool for them to use to use as paint trays.

**trishh** · 06-19-2007, 12:02 AM

Keep use for christmas ordiments small ones of course and grandkids use to put water colors in and paint with. Make easter ordiments out of with the paper cartoon type my grandmother did this with me when i was young and now i do it with my grandchildren. This is a few things you can do also to put jewelry into. Sewing things and desk items.

**baxjul** · 06-19-2007, 12:09 AM

I keep them for craft projects with the kids.

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 06-19-2007, 09:11 AM

I save them for my amish friend. She sells eggs and can always us extras. So when I ship her a box of canning jars I cushion everything with egg cartosn.

Laurie in Bradenton

**kittykatstrong** · 06-19-2007, 09:42 AM

they always end up in the trash.

Katy

**Ceashels** · 06-19-2007, 11:10 AM

The paper pulp ones get composted. I try not to purchase the foam cartons.

**peanut** · 06-19-2007, 11:15 AM

I either return them to the health food store, which returns them to the farmers for more eggs, or I take them to the Food Bank and they reuse them.

Jean

**Luv2BeFrugal** · 06-19-2007, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Laurie in Bradenton

I save them for my amish friend. She sells eggs and can always us extras. So when I ship her a box of canning jars I cushion everything with egg cartosn.

Laurie in Bradenton

You have an Amish friend! That is so cool! Their simplicity of life is so wonderful...I truly admire them.

Ok, I would vote for burn them (if you have the ability to...we burn all cardboard for heat at night...yeah, Alaskan summer nights can get pretty nippy...should be 70+ today, though!).

**ewokgirl** · 06-19-2007, 02:56 PM

I trash them.

**bumplett** · 06-19-2007, 03:04 PM

I save them for the recycling man - who gives them to a local farmer - who uses them to give eggs to the needy, we also use a few for crafts, seedlings in the spring, etc.

I have at least 10 in the garage at the moment that need to go to the recycling man

thanks for the reminder!