A new purpose!!

Huggies baby wipe bin, cute pattern! 

If you are a mom like me you have probably had a couple of these baby wipe bins laying around your house.  (At one point we had baby wipes in multiple rooms, you know, just in case.)  Now that we don't need as many of the boxes I have been looking for ways to re purpose them.  I know in the past I have seen them reused as crayon holders.

I turned mine into a yarn dispenser!  They are the perfect size to hold a ball or two of yarn.  It has a built in slot where the wipes would feed through.  And since it's made for a child's item there are no rough edges that you could snag your yarn on!

I had tried to use a Folger's 29 oz (HUGE) plastic coffee can for this same purpose, but I couldn't get the smell of stale coffee out of it, and I don't want my projects to smell like gross stale coffee!    

There's not really much you need to do to turn the wipe box into a yarn dispenser.  Once you have used all the wipes make sure the inside is clean and dry.  Then just stick the yarn you are using into it, feed the end of the yarn through the slot, close the lid, and viola!  You are ready to crochet and knit away with out having to worry about your yarn balls flinging across the room and being stolen by your toddler/dog/cat/monkey/etc....    

Yarn!! 

Beginnings of a project! 

If you have any great ideas for re purposing these baby wipe bins please feel free to comment below, I would LOVE to hear them!!

Thanks for reading!