Chalk(ish)

I found these glass or ceramic ice-cream cups at Savers.  I intended to use them for family frozen yogurt night.  Of course the yellow one would go to Daddy and Shayne would most likely choose the pink, leaving me with the green-blue. I'm not sure if it was the urgency for chalk containers, or the absence of frozen yogurt in the home, but these cups are now fulfilling their purpose holding chalk for our hall chalkboard. It made me think about what other types of containers in our home were being used for things other than their original purpose.

Here's a list because I'm in a list mood today:

1). The vintage saran wrap/papertowel/tin foil box-thing is at any moment holding small papers with recipes, washcloths, coupons, or folded up papers put there by Shayne.
2). iphone boxes are holding hair and bathroom paraphernalia
3). Something which will remain anonymous is holding Disneyland pennies.
4). At this moment in time, a paint roller tray is holding a bunch of medicine (Don't ask).
5). The lid to a Christmas box is holding office supplies.
6). My Aunt's childhood Mid-Century Modern Dresser, is holding DVD's.
7). A Vintage locker is holding my husband's mug collection.
8). A variety of food boxes are holding towels and washcloths.

Then there are the containers that weren't necessarily made for any specific item or items; these are useful and are becoming less and less separate from the ones that were made for something specific.  Nowadays anything can be used for anything and the more creative, the better.  I love Pinterest!

In fact, maybe we should say that using something for an item that was the intended original item, is so...
whatever date in the past that was strictest about doing that; it probably was the same era that said your shoes should match your outfit (Thanks goodness we are so much more enlightened now; snobby-eye-roll-and head-swing-emoji).