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What To Do With Newsprint? 3 Unusual Uses.

What To Do With Newsprint? 3 Unusual Uses.

Not sure what to do with your old newspapers?

Discover 3 unusual uses of newspaper that will be very useful to you on a daily basis.

Very often, we leave it lying on the edge of a table without paying attention to it, then one day we inevitably end up throwing it in the trash, such is the sad fate of an abandoned newspaper...

But beware, we too often underestimate its formidable effectiveness!

I therefore invite you to discover now 3 unusual uses of newsprint:

1. Clean your windows

Run a damp sponge over the window then crumple a few sheets of paper. Clean the dirty surface by rubbing vigorously until the glass is dry.

And there it is, voila!Newsprint leaves no traces and allows the windows to regain their full shine. A very effective method approved by my mom;)

2. Insulate yourself from the cold

Winter is long and harsh, to insulate yourself from the cold use newspaper which absorbs humidity of the ground. Form a log out of several crumpled up pieces of newspaper and place them in front of your door to keep the air out.

3. Be creative

If you are a creative eco-friendly at heart, newsprint is the ideal material to allow you to make all kinds of decorative objects paper mache or paper pulp. Just let your imagination run wild. For example, you can make decorative frames or personalize your coffee table with newspapers. Children will take great pleasure in helping you with your creations.

Have you tried this trick yet? What result did you get? How do you use newspaper in your daily life? Come tell us about it!

Savings achieved

Newsprint is an easy material to find because even if you don't buy newspapers on a daily basis, you can take home the free newspapers distributed in the metro or in supermarkets.

So you don't have to spend money unnecessarily and on top of that you give your newspaper a second life!