Use the Tube

Our awesome Eco-Agent IGA has come up with another fair use for toilet roll tubes after you've used up those last scraps of paper that stick on with the glue so that you have to pick it off in that annoying way. In her own words:

Reuse tip x2! Use old toilet paper cores to save gift ribbon to use again. Simply tape one end of the ribbon to the paper core, wrap around and tape the end to the ribbon.

Et Voilà! As an added bonus, not only does it keep your extra ribbon bits from getting tangled in the bottom of a drawer somewhere, AND keep TB tubes out of recycle bins/landfills - it looks pretty!

Thanks, Agent IGA! {Photo credit: I.G.}

Addendum: There are some toilet paper tubes that don't like having ribbon wrapped around them, and they make faces like this.

Update: Our agent wants to be called "Iggy," so we'll call her "IGGS" for short. :)

Prison Break

Agent L-L-7 has come through for us again! This time, the toilet paper roll takes a different art form - the art of escape.

One crafty convict at the Howard County Jail in Missouri reportedly used a piece of folded cardboard from his toilet paper roll to jam the door lock of his cell door, then fled while the patrol guard went the other way.

Okay, so he was caught. Still, he should get extra points for creativity. And this guy really doesn't like prisons. He escaped from a previous jail in 1996 by climbing through a hole in the roof.

Once again, the toilet paper tube proves to be much more than meets the eye.