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09 March 2012

Save your egg cartons →[More:] And post 'em as "cartons for eggs" in the farm and garden section of craigslist in the spring. I've been doing this for a couple years now and it works quite well. Especially if you like quiche.

post by: aniola at: 14:34 | 15 comments

Is this for starting seeds?

posted by fancyoats 09 March | 14:57

If I could retitle this post I would call it "FREE EGGS." Or maybe "new lamps for old".

posted by aniola 09 March | 14:58

It's the season for chickens to be laying lots of eggs. And people got trained out of egg baskets into egg cartons and egg cartons aren't exactly in abundance if you don't need to buy eggs because you have chickens in abundance.

posted by aniola 09 March | 15:00

I have plenty of cartons, but I keep forgetting to take them to my egg guy.

posted by lysdexic 09 March | 15:07

Egg cartons make excellent starter material for fires in my woodstove. I save all my cartons all year and then use them up in the winter. They can try to pry them from my otherwise cold not-quite-dead-yet hands.

posted by DarkForest 09 March | 15:11

Are you egging us on?

posted by oneswellfoop 09 March | 20:16

That's a good idea. I save mine up and just bring them to the farmers' market and give them to farmers who sell eggs.

posted by Miko 09 March | 23:14

I do that with my strawberry baskets.

posted by aniola 10 March | 01:15

Except I tried to take a whole stack of them on Wednesday and there was nobody at the market who used little green baskets.

posted by aniola 10 March | 01:47

(Nobody comes on Wednesdays this time of year.)

posted by aniola 10 March | 01:49

I had a pretty sweet deal going for a while: my sister would take my empty egg cartons, and every so often she'd return one of them full of eggs from her handful of chickens. Best. Eggs. EVER.

Then her last chicken died off. (Very sad. Bye, sweet chicken!)

She's talking about getting more chickens this spring. She asked my opinion and I was all "MOAR AIGS PLEEZ."

posted by Elsa 10 March | 08:03

I'd love to have chickens. I wonder if my downstairs neighbors would put up with it (really doubtful). Also don't know if it's legal here. Sometimes renting blows.

posted by Miko 10 March | 10:48

Yard chickens seem like they got really popular again lately. Or maybe i just started noticing, but i really do think yhey are making a comeback. Sometimes i walk past chickens in a pen, worry that they don't have nearly enough space, and then realize that at least they have way more room than factory chickens. Neighbors and landlords can sometimes be bribed with eggs if city code is down with chickens.

Totally egging y'all on. Chickens are hours of entertainment. Now i understand dog/cat people.

posted by aniola 10 March | 15:52

Oh yes, there's a total chicken renaissance over the last few years. A lot of my friends have them - I just don't know that I'm in the right situation to take it on.

posted by Miko 11 March | 01:27

Meither. I hope to be in a place in the next few years or so where i can have a couple hundred. I'm going to call it a chicken renaissance from now on though.

posted by aniola 11 March | 13:24

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