Hen, dinnae chuck yer wellies in the bin, recycle them!

 

Recycled wellington boots as a pair of handy funky garden shoes.

Ok where I'm from 'Hen' is a word of endearment for a female friend/relative or a chicken hen as well I think. When we think about recycling things its often things like jars, cans, paper and packaging. Anyway  what do you do when your wellies end up with a hole in them - or like me they split up the back. Very infruiating - especially when its one of your favourite pairs which you've gone through! We dinnnae (don't) normally think about recycling our wellies - other than maybe when we've grown out of them and we give them away to a pal or a charity shop. 

Or put them into the garden.............................I know a friend that has rows of wellies full of flowers at her door - what a brilliant idea! (thank you for the photo L!)
 



Anyway - I'm huge a fan of the wellington boot, 'wellies' are I think my favourite footwear - next to naked feet, I think. I've many different types from my bog standard green wellies, my steel toe capped yellow wellies to my very funky silly 'fashion' wellies - all of which I wear at minimum a couple of times a week (each). 

One day they were on the beach...........the next they had a big hole in them - not funny!                                                  

 I'm lucky that I can wear wellies to work, don't mind wearing them when I'm shopping and I've even got a special wellie rack to keep them - how cool is that??? I saved up for that and got my very own one from ebay - only then for my brother to tell me he could have made me one! Typical!! But its well used - and paid for by selling plants on ebay! When asked how much it cost - I have to say - 6 sold packs of my own alpine strawberries............

Wellie boot stand - big enough for all my favourite pairs!

Anway when my trusty funky wellies gave up the ghost, I did weep - buckets of tears, eventaully I had a brain wave and decided to make a pair of wellie shoes out of them (like those posh ones you get in the shops) - and now I wear them every morning when I feed the hens - who really appreciate them! All you need is a decent pair of kitchen scissors and a pair of old wellies - I just thought about the shape they'd need to be if I wanted to just slip them on at the door before going out - and came up with this....................



The next minute, one pair of kitchen scissors later - a pair of very lovely garden shoes - took about 10 minutes - thinking of how to recycle them took much longer!

Its just amazing what you can get in the post - and what you can do with an old pair of wellies! Next time you're thinking of chucking yer wellies in the bin, dinnae (don't) do it - recycle them instead if you can! Now with my new funky shoes I have to say - I'm wearing them even more often but I do miss my old wellies but at least I'll get to wear them as shoes................