fun upcycling

[deltaecho]

there are some fun things here, some silly ones too:

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/50-life-hacks-to-simplify-your-world/
http://twistedsifter.com/2012/06/creative-ways-to-repurpose-reuse-and-upcycle-old-things/

[Kriegsspiel]

Hah, I remember doing this at college.

[grantmeaname]

I upcycle mediocre beer bottles into homebrew bottles.

[Paul der Krake]

@Grant care to expand? I am about to start homebrewing myself. More specically, how do you handle sealing a used bottle?

[grantmeaname]

Collect bottles from your friends -- you'll need 48 for a standard 5-gallon batch, and every bomber counts double (we often do 10 bombers and 30 little bottles). They have to be real bottles with rims, not screw-top bottles or the fancy cork-and-cage setup you find in Belgian beers. Most use one standard size of caps, so you go to your homebrew store and you buy a ton of caps for a song, and you buy or borrow a capper. When it's bottle time, you just put a cap on the bottle, put the capper on top, and pull down the two handles, and you're sealed. Easy as pie.

[DoubleDown]

And go with the painted-label bottles, not the kind with paper labels. I personally like to use Corona bottles, they work very well for your home brew and are clear so you can see the color and consistency of your beer, not to mention being able to see the sludge at the bottom when you pour.

Also, you can just run all your bottles through a cycle of the dishwasher to clean/sterilize.

[grantmeaname]

You can use paper or plastic labels too. That's what we do, they're just a bitch to clean off.