With the gold fish. You have them out side in a barral? sounds like it would help to make for fertialize some. and keep the trouth cleaned.

I go to caseys and get the buckets they use in the kitchens biggest size they come in is a gallon I think then one size smaller. they work great and keep me from feeding the animales to much. they work great to catch bolts and nuts(not me).

With the sour cream and whip cream bowls they make nice ceral and soup bowls . The empty jars goes into the grage till I can get that redone to use them to hold different size of nuts and bolts.

working on a compost pile but its not getting full to much. I threw all of the poop on the garden when I cleand the barns out. It was aged for god knows how long. but now I can start adding it to my compost when I plant.

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I also use them for removing litter in the barns when I am moving stuff directly into the garden. I have a friend who cut them into strips and redid her lawn chair (that would probably work with the plastic twine too). I reuse all of my old containers...coffee cans for change, compost to go outside, trash cans next to my desk, pencil containers, flower pots. I use most of my cans from canned goods too...for my container garden in the window that holds all of my herbs. I reuse the jars for potpouri and christmas lights in each room, they smell great and work as night lights. I also use the glass jars for candle decorations. Baby food jars work great for condiments at parties...a cute band of ribbon makes them festive! Old butter bowls, cottage cheese, yogurt and other plastic containers work great for odds and ends or for mixing paints, dipping easter eggs, starter pots for plants. I have used twine or sisel baling twine to wrap broken legs of chairs (then covered them with gorilla glue), decorative accents on photo albums and picture frames, and even as trellis for my vines in the garden(like my endless rows of peas).

Decorative bags could be kept in the house to collect things like empty soda cans or tin cans for recycle. Paper one's can be stuff full of newspapers to burn. Another thing you can do is to remove the image...and decopauge(or how ever you spell that) onto a slab of wood for artwork around the house.

Since the plastic ones are so sturdy, I have been thinking about cutting them open and sewing them together for tarping and to make some hay feeders with for my alpacas.

I hadn't thought of saving the string from the feed sacks, will have to start winding up those into a twine ball.

Also, I've been thinking that the baling twine could be used in weaving to make rugs, just cut off the knots.

I vermicompost and have given the soaked paper feed sacks to the worms to eat. Sometimes they appear to be paper but have a plastic liner inbetween the paper. The worms just eat around it and when I change their bins over, I remove the uneaten plastic.

I am always finding uses for extra tubs and buckets. I would just clean them and stack them until you figured what you needed them for. Some good ideas already on the replies.