Rather than throwing out plastic shower curtains when they’re no longer fit for the shower, try one of these creative reuses:
- Drop cloths for painting
- Tarps to cover firewood piles or anything else you don’t want to get wet
Arts and crafts table cover
Ground cloth for gardening or working on the car
Protection for your car’s seats or trunk from dirty bags of manure, plants, muddy boots, etc.
Family-size poncho
Mini-greenhouse or cold frame for the garden. Build a frame with plastic pipe or scrap wood, and drape the curtain over it. Use stakes to secure it to the ground.
Killer of particularly bothersome weeds. Stake the shower curtain to the ground, and cover with mulch and attractive potted plants. After a few months, you can pull the corners up to form a bag around the mulch, and move it to another location in your yard.
Melissa Veliz
Lubbock, Texas