claim the stuffings for my turkey. Now I'll keep the rest and when I need more I'll just grab the pillow. What have you used for a substitution when you don't have what you need? Share your ideas.

I can't lie..... i too have taken a pillow from another family member and took the stuffing out of it. But i did give them some back with the gift i made for them. I take many trips to our local Salvation Army store and anytime i see pillows i grab them just for the stuffing and sometimes the material is worth saving too.
Lee

Thank you for the laugh this morning LOL I totally understand last year I was making ITH snowmen for everyone in my family, had the stuffing so not a problem but they didn't stand up kept falling over what to do? snow on ground so unable to just go get little pebbles, start hunting house, oh my look at those pretty glass beads in those candles LOL they worked great.

Great ideas every one of them. I have to admit that I have several bags of fibre-fil and matting piled in a corner. I use sales and coupons and store an extra bag or 2.

You arer so crafty - great idea. I would have used an old pillow that had been washed and saved away - just for that. They are no longer being used - so why not use the stuffing? Can't wait to view your stuffed turkey. Hehehe!

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by bevintex 01 Nov 2010

Turkey is done and glue is drying. I'll post him tomorrow. Oct is over and now it's Turkey Time!

grab a pillow always works

When I used to work a desk job, I ruined a lot of panty hose. I saved them and you can cut them in pieces and use them for stuffing. Cut the panty off and cut up the legs and stuff away. You'd throw them away otherwise. Also used them to dry my onions out of the garden. Drop an onion in, tie a knot above the onion then keep going till the legs are full. Hang up so they dry. When you need an onion cut below the knot each time. Looks funny but works great. Used them to tie up the tomatoes too. Or make a sling for the squash that grew up on the fence.Necessity is the mother of invention.

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by spendlove 01 Nov 2010

I've found myseld buying tights specially for those jobs since I retired. How sad is that?

by nama2 01 Nov 2010

that is so ingenious-great idea-I also keep old pillows around, but usually have bags of fiber-fil too. I also look for good deals at Good Will, if the pillows are cheap-I buy, thats where I get alot of my zippers too!

Plastic Bags, Paper Towels, Dryer Sheets, old clothes. Then I go out and buy the proper stuffing after I see what the filled item will look like. It's a process that we just have to see it stuffed after all the work put into it.

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by bevintex 01 Nov 2010

The pillow was just fiberfill so it's the same thing. I like to use what have on hand. Saved me a trip to Walmart if they even sell it anymore. They did away with most craft supplies.