{"id":18066,"date":"2011-06-19T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/?p=18066"},"modified":"2015-05-01T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:57:16","slug":"dried-out-baby-wipes-repurpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/dried-out-baby-wipes-repurpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Dried Out Baby Wipes: Repurpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question from a reader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone have any ideas (or even one!) for making use of a couple boxes of baby wipes that have dried out? I hate to throw them away!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I had an answer for her, but honestly my kids go through wipes so quickly I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had a box dry out. My biggest issue is losing the travel wipes case! I think I&#8217;ve lost at least two cases per kid over the past seventeen years!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/files\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-19-at-11.16.58-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18067\" title=\"dried out baby wipes\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/files\/2011\/06\/Screen-shot-2011-06-19-at-11.16.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted the question on my <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/thehappyhousewife\">Facebook page <\/a>and got so many great responses I figured I would share some of them with you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mix up a light solution of baby soap and water &#8211; pour into the box and let soak.<\/li>\n<li>Use them as washcloth at bath time by using like regular wash cloth.<\/li>\n<li>Keep them in the bathroom to wipe down the counters and toilet. Just wet and add a little handsoap, and viola!<\/li>\n<li>Use them for wiping off eye makeup.<\/li>\n<li>Use to wipe noses.<\/li>\n<li>Use them on your swiffer mop to dust your floors or with mop solution.<\/li>\n<li>Use the boxes for crayons, art supplies, small toys, keys, hair accessories, or\u00a0planters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What do you do with dried out baby wipes? <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><strong>You might also enjoy these articles on Diapering and Potty Training from The Happy Housewife:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/cloth-diapering-101\/\">Cloth Diapering 101 &#8211; extensive guide for cloth diapering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/cloth-diapers-so-easy-your-husband-will-be-changing-the-diapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloth Diapering &#8211; so easy your husband will be changing the diapers!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/frugal-living\/cloth-vs-disposable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cost Breakdown: Cloth Diapering vs Disposables<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/why-i-stopped-potty-training-my-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why I Stopped Potty Training My Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question from a reader: Anyone have any ideas (or even one!) for making use of a couple boxes of baby wipes that have dried out? I hate to throw them away! I wish I had an answer for her, but honestly my kids go through wipes so quickly I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2554],"class_list":{"0":"post-18066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-and-tricks","7":"tag-home-management","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30067,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions\/30067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/home-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}