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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Not Again! How to Solve the Dry Wipe Dilemma

I dont know about you, though it drives me crazy when we buy the container of wipes as well as we have to chuck out the final couple of because they’re utterly dry.Or when I’m in the middle of changing the unequivocally sharp diaper as well as the wipes have dried out prior to I’ve even pulled them from the plastic. The problem: packages with no resealable lids or tabs.It seems similar to Im only wasting money!

The sticky resealing fasten that comes upon the small clean packages only doesnt hold up for me. The large bulky tough boxes have been only plain inconvenient. The ziplock bag in my purse doesn’t quite do the trick. we need something that closes as well as that is small sufficient to fit in my purse. To equivocate dry wipes as well as to maintain convenience, Ive actually selected to outlay some-more income upon wipes only to get the soothing packages with the hard, plastic, closable lid.

So the alternative day we saw the small wipes upon sale. My hesitation: they were the large package of refills rsther than than the nice individual packages with the closeable lids. Of course, we paid for them anyway. I’d be insane to pass upon such the krazy coupon deal!

A couple of days later, we finished my final hard-plastic-closable-lidpackage from my stockpile as well as started thinking about how we could refill my closeable container.I motionless to see if there was the small approach to mislay as well as reuse that closeable lid.

Here’s what we discovered:If we have been unequivocally careful, we can kindly flay that cosmetic flip lid right off the dull packages!

So, off to the grocery store we went to find something that would belong the closeable cosmetic lid to the Ziploc bag. Lo as well as behold, Ive found two things that work; one resolution is some-more temporary, the alternative some-more permanent.

The Temporary Solution:Permanent Double-sided Tape. You can find the fasten we used onAmazonor during most retailers. we picked up my fasten upon the 50% off clearway sale for about the dollar. we call this temporary, though Ive used it for some-more than three weeks, as well as it has continued to belong perfectly. But we can additionally flay it off if we wish to attach it to another bag, as well as its still sticky!

Then we suspicion may be we should try to find something the small some-more sturdy. we did the small research, picked up several opposite sorts of adhesives, as well as tried them multiple times. Some worked better than others, while others only gave me the headache. Through trial as well as error, we was able to come up with the some-more permanent solution.

The Permanent Solution:E6000 Clear Multi-Purpose Adhesive Glue. we paid for the 1 oz. tube during Wal-mart for $2.97, or we can find it upon Amazon for $3.65. This glue works unequivocally well, especially with the Ziploc bag. we would keep my eye out for sales upon this, though its not too costly as well as it only takes the small glue to stick. You could have the lot of clean packages for unequivocally cheap.

Regardless of that process we choose, heres what we do:

Gently flay the closeable lid off of your dull clean package. When we contend gently, we mean it. If youre not careful, we can snap the cosmetic lid.

Line the bottom edges of the lid with the double-sided fasten or E6000 Adhesive.

Stick the lid to the Ziploc bag, to have the refillable package (make sure we have been aligning it so when we cut the slit, it lines up with the middle of your wipes) or without delay to your refill package. Id suggest making them with Ziploc bags so we can in the centre refill your handy brand new container. Let it lay overnight, during least.

Using scissors, cut the cut in the middle of the bag inside the newly trustworthy lid.

Enjoy your brand new handy refillable clean containers. we took mine to the babysitters today, as well as she desired it!So far, we have used this process upon the package of face wipes, baby clean refill packs, as well as upon Ziploc bags! we have the preference of the closeable lid without the added responsibility of those sorts of packages. Dry clean dilemma, begone!

***Just the small side tip: If we do have dry wipes, simply re-wet them. we put water in the package, sign it as well as let them soak it up!

This has been the guest post by Becky from Pendleton, OR
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