Use it up, wear it out. I've realized I have a shed load of perfectly good products around, which I've only partially used, and in trying to use them up, I've re-discovered some good stuff. →[More:]Reynolds Oven Bags rock, for example. I had an old partial box around, from way back when my sister bought some to cook a turkey breast at my house, when she was visiting once. I've moved 4 times, since, and they seem to have moved with me. I bought a number of roasting chickens on sale recently for $0.69/lb, and was going to use them, as I usually do, to vary the dog's diet a bit. But then I saw these again for the 400th time on a pantry shelf, and on my new kick, I threw a chicken, whole, in a Reynolds bag, with a couple of tableshoons of flour and 2 stalks of celery and half a sliced onion in the body cavity, and an hour an half later, in a 375 degree F oven, dinner was ready. No baste, no fuss, nicely roasted and browned chicken, and a full pint of delicious stock rendered out, which was easy to pour into the stock jar in the fridge, after it cooled a bit. Total prep time for the chicken and a couple of potatoes I wrapped in foil and baked with the chicken = 3 minutes. Woohoo!

Also, I had some Eagle Brand sweetened, condensed milk hanging around forever, or at least since a couple of Thanksgivings ago, when I bought it to make pumpkin pies, and didn't. One of the labels suggested a use as coffee creamer, so I opened a can, and it's one-stop cream and sugar for coffee! Who knew?

Then I found an old bottle of Cornhusker's Lotion under my bathroom sink, which has really fixed up the dry, cracked "winter skin" on my knuckles and elbows. How could I have forgotten how awesome this stuff was, in the 4 or 5 years I've had it under the sink?

What have you re-discovered in the dark corners of your pantry/closets lately?