How to Reuse Pantyhose and Stockings

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Don’t throw away those ripped or saggy nylons! There are tons of useful things you can do with them.

Step 1: Use in the garden
Use strips to tie climbing plants like tomatoes to poles. Line the bottom of a garden pot to prevent soil from escaping when excess water drains out.

Step 2: Stash a pair in your car
Keep a pair in your car. They can temporarily replace a broken fan belt in a pinch.

Step 3: Strain old paint
Strain old paint through them to filter out lumps.

Step 4: Keep onions fresh
Slip onions into a leg, tie off after each onion, hang in a cool place, and then snip off onions as needed. The hose allows air to get through, keeping the onions fresh.

Step 5: Hang clothes on them
Wrap them around wire hangers as a cushion to prevent pointy shoulders.

Step 6: Buff shoes
Keep them with your shoe-polishing kit; they’re great for buffing.

Step 7: Clean your pool
If you have a pool, stretch some over your skimmer to trap really tiny particles. Or create a makeshift skimmer by pulling some old hose over a wire hanger that’s been stretched into a frame.

Step 8: Cover wrapping paper
Protect half-used rolls of wrapping paper and seasonal candles from dust by storing them in legs.

Step 9: Scrub the tub
Use them to scrub your bathtub and sinks; they won’t scratch the surfaces.

Tip
Fill the foot portion with old slivers of soap until you have enough to make a scrubbing pad.

Step 10: Make a lens filter
Experiment by covering your camera lens with a piece of nylon to take softer-looking portraits; the filter effect will make skin imperfections disappear.

Step 11: Use them in luggage
Packing a suitcase? Roll your clothes neatly to prevent them from wrinkling; then stuff the rolls in pantyhose legs to keep them from unraveling.

Did You Know?
When pantyhose became available again in 1945, once nylon was no longer needed for the war effort, stores were so mobbed by shoppers it led to riots!