What’s a girl to do with ALL THOSE PLASTIC EASTER EGGS???

Plastic Easter eggs are a lifesaver when it comes to buying bulk candy for the kid’s Easter baskets. The eggs are usually about $1 for a dozen. This is how I save a ton of money when making their baskets. Once the day is done, candy has been consumed and the kids are recovering from a sugar coma, we are left with a behemoth pile of plastic eggs.


Usually the kids rehide the eggs in and around the house for an extra week of good ole fashioned egg hunting. Unless Sandy, our cat, has gotten to them. She loves tossing them all over the house, bouncing them from one side of the dining room to the other. As cute as she is, at 3am all the clacking sounds of the plastic egg on the linoleum are quite annoying. This is usually when the plastic nuisances are tossed into the trash.

Instead of tossing good money into the trash, I like to reuse them whenever I can. They make the perfect storage item for a variety of common household items. The larger eggs can obviously house larger items but the smaller ones are quite useful as well. Pop them in your suitcase during travel, and you’ve got a convenient place to store all sorts of odd ball items. A sharpie marker and a spot of tape make these super convenient storage devices. Here’s a few items you can easily store in plastic eggs.

cotton balls loose change board game pieces camera memory cards Nintendo DSi games jewelry bobbins buttons

excess thread seeds for the garden ear buds eye glass repair kit emergency stash of aspirin or Tylenol dry snacks (cereal, trail mix, pretzels, etc)

What do you do with your plastic eggs?

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