Do you get excited about repurposing something you have already used for its original purpose and finding a totally new use for it before it meets the trash? I love doing this and I wanted to share with you one of my repurposing ideas for used dryer sheets! We have 3 very hairy fur babies and keeping up with shedding fur especially in the summer is a challenge! No matter how much you brush, fur-minate and bath the “tumble fur” abounds. So here’s my helpful hint for everyday pick up on hard surface floors. With 3 pups the need to remove “tumble fur” occurs daily! One fast way to get at it of course is to use a sweeper and dry sweeper pads, but if you need to use 3 and 4 of these a day for one room, this really adds up quickly to a lot of money and a lot of waste. You can only use these once, at least that’s how it is at our house, and then the trash is a must! But wait there is another way that works almost as well and totally adds new life to another wise discarded item! So here’s how it works: I save the used dryer sheets and when its time to gather up the fur and dirt on my kitchen floor, I take 2 used dryer sheets place them over lapping and crosswise over the face of the sweeper and attach in the usual way as if I was using a dry sweeper pad made for the sweeper!
2 Dryer sheets ready to be attracted to sweeper
Attaching first dryer sheet
This is better for the environment, saves money and for everyday use fits the bill! I discard them in the usual way and never feel guilty that I needed to use so many just to get the floor de-furred. I discovered this one day when I had run out of dry sweeper pads and looked around to see if there was some thing else I could use and low and behold drier sheets looked very much like the sweeper pads and it had always bothered me that all you could do was throw these clean perfectly good dryer sheets away. I have included pictures so you can see how it’s done and the results. It always feels good to be a little frugal and slightly ahead of the fur tide!
Securing dryer sheets
Attaching 2nd dryer sheets
Ready-to-Go
In Action
At Work!
Well Done!
In the Trash you go!
Just showed my daughter this. Going to try it tomorrow for my cat’s hair!
Thanx for the post!
WOW, this is so cool! We have one dog, and I always find fur in the corners of the rooms…but I imagine if I took the dryer sheets for a spin, I would collect more. Thanks!
I love this idea! It seems we get over run with dryer sheets, now something to do with them before they go in the trash. Thanks for sharing…have a great weekend
What a great idea, Teri! I don’t have a dog, but can see how using old dryer sheets would work on dust on hardwood floors. Thank you for sharing this! I will be giving it a try.
This is great! I had never thought about it. Thanks for sharing this tip.