I know Earth Day was last week, but finding different ways to be “green” is a pretty hot topic these days anyway.  There are a lot of simple ways to be kind to the environment – using cloth shopping bags (they look so much nicer, and hold so much more, than plastic), taking metal or plastic water bottles and travel coffee mugs, feeding your leftover bread scraps to the ducks instead of throwing them out.  Ok, I’m not sure if the last one exactly counts as being “green,” but it’s more fun and less wasteful, isn’t it?

Fun With Bandanas

Fun With Bandanas

So, in honor of Earth Day, and in keeping with our own theme, here are some interesting ways to reuse a bandana that you might not have thought of before.

  1. The revival of the hankie.  Blow your nose in it!
  2. A casual (or emergency) cloth napkin.
  3. Play pirate with your kids or students or whoever – it can be a headrag or even an eyepatch!
  4. Soak it and tie it around your neck when it’s hot out to cool off.  If you want to get fancy, pop it in the freezer for 15 minutes after you wet it.
  5. Bandanas make handy sleep masks when you’re flying.
  6. Tie back your curtains!
  7. An emergency bandage.
  8. Wrap it around a bag of frozen peas to make an ice pack.
  9. Apprehend a criminal and use it to tie his wrists together until the police come.
  10. Um, go find a ship that’s setting sail, and wave it good bye?

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