It’s funny what you think about while you’re cooking or enjoying a snack. For instance, we get bottled beverages - Orange Crush, Grape Crush, and Coca Cola. The caps are really cute and colorful, so I start thinking about how cute they’d be as designer jewelry or part of a craft project. In fact, I think I’m going to start saving them in a box. If nothing else, I can give them to my Mom to use on scrapbook pages or other crafts. Maybe I could even solder them together to make trivets and put a felt backing on them to protect surfaces.

Even the cartons these beverages come in are pretty, and could hold things like picnic tableware, rolled up napkins, ketchup, mustard, and barbecue sauce in purchased dispenser bottles. They could even be set out for casual family get-togethers so that if you have more than one table to accommodate a lot of people, each table could get their own caddy. It would be so easy to set these out and then pick them back up again when it’s time to clear the tables. Since they fold flat, storage would be simple, too.

The overall cost of doing these things would be very low, but the impact on presentation would be huge!

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