Best Repurposing Quotes

"It's amazing, like old phones. I usually keep them 'cause they still work if repurposed like that."

"The fundamental problem is that we have too much office space. The solution in the long run is to get rid of some of the excess office we have and repurpose some of that space."

"Repurpose, refashion, reuse. Very much in keeping with the king's way of thinking."

"I love the fact that I was able to just repurpose something and give something a new life."

"Repurposing revolution: a new life for old electronics."

"Quality images can be repurposed for social media content."

"A picture of a repurposed underground car park in the Netherlands, complete with coffee and cake store."

"But I love taking things that are old and just kind of giving them new life."

"We're running out of room and our storage room here so what I've decided is completely change the purpose of the room that I'm currently standing in."

"And we should find ways to repurpose and make the most out of it."

"Repurposing the silver squadron into some kind of weird art exhibit."

"It doesn't matter what the original intention was; people can still just repackage it to push whatever agenda they want."

"You must remember to eat, who is strike and strength is survival."

"Learning to repurpose seeing things in a different way and not feeling like you have to go out and spend them on a bunch of money to make your space look nice and cute."

"It's much more interesting to me that it didn't fulfill its purpose and was instead repurposed to some cruel and realistic end."

"Transform an old cutting board into a mirror frame."

"Repurpose a gift box to store items discreetly."

"Think what could I restyle and maybe change up in some way and then go from there."

"Build community, repurpose items, give them a second life."

"Every tool that we use is basically coming from nature and we repurpose it just like every other tool."

"Living in a city that does a lot of demolition can be advantageous to repurpose some of this stuff."

"You really have gotten creative when it comes to finding new purposes for things."

"This now-defunct ship has been converted into a Tavern and it was also used as a gambling Den."

"We like to go out there, see what we can save from the landfill, either pick up for our own personal use, to donate, or to resell."

"It's nice to repurpose it and it's kind of a better place to lay out and you've got more space."

"Let's talk about video repurposing; let's say you made a long-form video that's 15 minutes long on YouTube, and you want to cut out some clips for TikTok, for Reels, for YouTube Shorts, for places like that."

"...to think that something built for destruction could be repurposed for creation, it's almost poetic."

"...he turned the Abbey into an upmarket family home."

"We love to reinvent and repurpose all sorts of things."

"You can repurpose your existing videos into YouTube shorts."

"All the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Fox Marvel characters here have just been collecting junk that gets pruned by the TVA and sent to the void all over the place. Just repurposing it."

"...what's so great is you can actually download the video before you post it so once it's edited and you can repurpose it to other platforms such as Facebook or YouTube shorts or Instagram re..."

"One woman's trash is another woman's weapon."

"I encourage you to embrace your antique and vintage pieces in new ways. Whether you fill a sugar bowl with sugar cubes, cotton swabs, or a hand-poured candle, we can enjoy our beautiful treasures."

"Originally I was inspired by my husband's grandmother. Martha Stewart was making candles out of old candles one day and repurposing, and I thought what a lovely idea to make some candles and give them back to my husband's family to remember her by."

"Repurposing a space and piece of furniture that I already had to service my Apothecary just made sense."

"An old Russian tank wheel turned flower grinder."

"Reuse, repurpose, re-engineer. If we can't reuse it, the very last resort is recycling."

"Found objects don't have to be old."

"No, if we do anything with it, it's going to be a pickup."

"It's just having all my stuff around me and a lot of this stuff I've had for a long time and it worked out well to reinvent it into this structure here."

"DIY projects: turning thrift store finds into personalized home decor treasures."

"I think I might take that home and apply it to these plain marmalade pots."

"I think this is a really cool use for a building that would just otherwise sit empty."

"I always look out for unique finds, like these grass place mats that I'm repurposing for a table setting."

"This guy was gonna go into the landfill so I am so excited that I was able to flip it around and give it some new life."

"This was a really fun way to reuse some old ideas, and I think I ended up with three really nice squishies that I like a lot."

"You don't even need to have your own content. You can just use somebody else's content and repurpose it."

"One of my favorite things about creating short form vertical videos like this is how easily you can repurpose it."

"Designing content that can be repurposed onto different platforms or formats can help you increase your posting frequency without adding extra time to your workflow." - Video

"She had always enjoyed taking things that folks thought had outlived their usefulness and tinkering with them until she had made something sparkling and new out of it."

"It's great to see those repurposed in the sets themselves."

"This thing lived a hard life but cool wall hanger if nothing else."

"We were buying these pianos and taking the boards out and using the controller boards in this piano and throwing the pianos away."

"Making garbage out of garbage, a garbage can out of garbage. I love it, it's a great use of that book."

"We can take this apart and get some really useful bits and pieces out of this and then do some stuff with it."

"They also were doing a little bit of revamping and repurposing of things they've turned this industrial trestle table with a few new wood surfaces into a very ingenious little typing stand."

"If you're going to repurpose, have a purpose to your repurposing."

"Consider repurposing a bag from a popular restaurant to carry your food."

"Every time I repurpose a piece of junk, it makes me think of my dad because my folks were products of the Great Depression."

"I'll take it, based from a face cream pot, intact but I have no use for it."

"This chair is 1.99 yes it does have a broken kind of seat but you could cut that out and put a plant in it."

"We've got a couple of old drops here that I think we can make it out of let's see if it'll work."

"I'm excited to be repurposing stuff we love sustainability."

"Look for opportunities to give those old things new life."

"There are so many ways that you can repurpose everyday items to give them a brand new life and a brand new function in your home."

"Take an old soap dish, cut out the unnecessary parts, sand the edges."

"This thing's getting repurposed. How cool is that? I'm so excited I found this. You never know what you're gonna find in old houses: useful stuff."

"They took all her jewelry melted it down and made an anchor out of that jewelry."

"I feel like I could use that for something else too. That's actually a good piece of fabric."

"Just shop your home, use what you have. Always shop your home first. You'll be surprised how things look in a different space."

"The challenge was to see if I could turn them into something that I would actually use in my own home."

"I use hotel room keys as bookmarks."

"So, I'm going to try something, which is this. I bought this belt for my waist, and it's a little bit too big, so I'm going to use it for the auxiliary functions of the car."

"We got all of these lovely projects out of things that were either forgotten, disposed of, you know not wanted anymore, and with a little imagination we were able to take the things and turn them into something that we love and it brings us joy in our home."

"Resourcefulness and repurposing is a lovely slow living habit and mindset."

"These bikes are pretty much right off the street in a sense and now you are putting them on a racetrack."

"It's a fun way to use up your little scraps and it's a great way to make gifty items."

"So I hope you enjoyed that tutorial and maybe it sparked a few ideas for what to do with those old textiles that you thought had no further use."

"Those putters that came from my backyard are so much happier doing what they're doing with you. Those were just sitting in my backyard, I think."

"I'm so glad that I could take something that I already had and make something new to go in my bedroom."

"If you do have an old phone or tablet gathering dust, it is a free and effective solution for adding a powerful interface to your clipper setup."

"In this video, we're going to go through the entire process...and then the best ways to repurpose and edit that content."

"I'll probably fire with the top but the trunk is pretty straight so I think I'm going to try my hand at turning this into a bench."

"...one of the simplest things you can do with old dishes of any sort is to put flowers in them."

"By repurposing everyday objects and waste materials, the Anonymous team aimed to create sustainable and socially conscious works of art."

"If you have a hand soap pump like this, take the top off, just a bit of trimming here and there, and you've basically got a rotating turret."

"You got nothing to lose, it's literally just like okay I already created the video for YouTube okay I'll just repurpose it and upload a tick tock."

"I've seen them made out of smart cars, pickup trucks, semi-trucks, motorcycles, boats."

"I love that you repurpose everything."

"Originally this was meant to hang on the wall, but I actually want it to be a stand-up decor piece."

"Let's take some trash and turn it into treasure."

"I love taking items that I already have and finding a new vision."

"You know, 'Never again' is a real thing that real Holocaust survivors say all the time and here it's repurposed into a declaration of villainy."

"I did have this little wooden Riser and I found this Amber bottle at the thrift store for two dollars."

"This whole necklace piece is a piece of off-white bed sheet."

"I just love taking unwanted, unloved, outdated items and just giving them new life."

"... a really unique way to use tumbling tower blocks as upscale home decor."

"we bought this barn five months ago and over that time here we've been coming here periodically about once a week taking van loads full taking games taking high-end stuff"

"Anytime you get like metal rusty pieces, keep them."

"That's the thing with upcycling, you change its purpose, you change its function."

"Collect ideas in everyday life, jot them down somewhere. Do bulk production once a month so that you don't have to worry about it. And then repurpose your content for different platforms."

"I'm going to use this yellow gingham leftover stuff from a dress I made previously to bind all of the edges, and then this fabric, which is actually see-through, like there's purposeful holes in it, I want to use this to lengthen the dress."

"My house is pretty much thrifted or Facebook Marketplace repurposed, reused."

"Everything can be repurposed and nothing should ever go to waste."

"Welcome back to Upcycle by Tito, where I take all forgotten items and give them a new life."

"You could make a go-kart out of it, I suppose."

"I love when older pieces with a prior purpose are used and integrated in the things we have now."

"But when possible, I try to repurpose anything I can and I encourage you too also."

"What a beautiful way to make use of all those beautiful china teacups."

"I have had this photo album stand for quite a while and decided that it would make a great recipe card holder."

"I found this idea so appealing because first of all, I had some silk scraps lying around."

"This is cork that I found on a placemat."

"It's just a great way to repurpose something that you would otherwise just put down the drain or throw away."

"It's a real simple thing you can do with statues you've already had in the yard."

"This is kind of neat; this used to be a hairbrush, but all the bristles are gone."

"I turned an old kitchen table into this desk and I'm very proud of it."

"It's a fascinating read not just because of its historical context but also because so much of this old knowledge can be repurposed today."

"I've found that ginger jars missing their lids also make beautiful vases, and so I decided that because this had a bird on it and it was a nice lidless ginger jar, I would still buy it for $1.99."

"As long as you've got the stamp, you can actually do the embossing. Then from there on in, you're utilizing old book pages and you're making yourself E M A, which is pretty much all that's costing you is a little bit of time and effort."

"Repurposing is preparing an ingredient for one recipe and using portions for another recipe later."

"...how you can just take a simple book page and transform it I love that."

"Once you use an oven for sublimation, it is no longer an oven that you'd ever want to cook food in."

"I love that this slide was presumably just hanging around and someone was like yeah we used for that."

"I found these...fabric flowers...snipped them all off...so I've done that."

"I'm gonna have to clip that whole segment and like re-upload it as a video."

"And there you go - that is how you make a new server out of... an old server. Sort of."

"I've been thinking a while about how I can do them so I think I'm going to make like sun catchers out of them."

"Our modified tail stock repurposed tail stock is now ready to put to work here."

"One person's cast-offs are another person's cherished finds."

"In dumpster diving, every find is a victory, big or small."

"Repurposing farming implements like scythes and everything, I could give you that, but suddenly making them from scratch? Okay, that's very fast."

"I love this they decorated some of the frisbee golf stuff with old signs too."

"Repurposed stuff can be a lifesaver."

"This room was once a brothel for keen."

"It's such a fun way to create using things that we have that we might already throw away. I'm super excited to share these with you so let's get started."

"It actually helps you create micro content or shorter content pieces for social media a lot easier because then you can repurpose that content down the line and makes your job so much easier."

"I'm just showing you ways and means of recycling, repurposing. Sometimes you see these things lying around, creating like garbage, and people don't know that they can actually recycle it and make it into something useful, or purposeful, meaningful."

"You don't have to not use something just because it's specifically for another holiday. I think it works."

"Now the motorbikes make the perfect wheels for this and together they really make a cute Decor piece."

"This one was part of a leftover top portion of an old-fashioned sewing machine."

"Sometimes it's good that I don't know exactly what things are because it makes it easier for me to think of all these other things you could do with it not exactly what it was intended for you know what I mean."

"another way that you can decorate for fall in the upcoming holidays is by kind of repurposing and reusing things that you used last year"

"Now back to over here, this is what I thought was gonna be a tool kit, but look at that, it's like a great little skewer set. This is for corn on the cob, kind of like a grilling set. This is for basting or something, and it comes in a nice little plastic case for all of it."

"I rescued a bag from the landfill it's going to get more use."

"Magazine racks turned decor pieces, a new chapter in design."

"I consider this a fun accessory to add to any junk journal or a simple way to organize or store your own ephemera."

"Making do with what I got, trying to repurpose instead of discard."

"Car radiators are ideal for this."

"This makes like a great bookshelf light or... I'm seeing them on like a small side table of some... I don't know. Maybe I'll take them to LA."

"I love these tiles. I would love to hear your ideas on how you would repurpose them or how you would use them."

"So now look at that stamp, I'm already calling it a stamp."

"This is one of those projects that's absolutely perfect for using up any beautiful saved pieces."

"I absolutely love this idea because it's taking something that already exists and turning it into something new."

"I'm just taking leftover pieces from after I cut out the skirt and using them to fit the bodice onto here."

"I had all of these pieces from past makeovers."

"Let's give this old toy a new life."

"I don't think I'm actually going to try and redeem this device, but this little stepper motor and the driver board for it, I might do something with it."

"Was this the story of the doll was broken and Dad thought wow I can turn that into you know an angel to put in the window."

"Really look at the things that you're seeing, can you use them as something decorative in your home?"

"Why not paint them into something pretty that you'll use and hang in your house or use in a different way?"

"Repurpose parts of those videos into their own independent YouTube shorts."

"...so just click this video and I'll show you all my best repurposing hacks to get as much mileage out of it as you can reaching bigger audiences and getting more clients in the process."

"I'm going to do varicosum and I think what I'm going to do is I have this bin of used thick Le poles these are from Plants I had taken off poles so I'm just going to grab like two of these I think they're all just the medium 2.0 which this plant is currently on."

"WE TAKE PIECES OF MY HUSBAND'S WORK THAT HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL--IT HAS CRACKED IN THE KILN OR THE GLAZE HAS CRAWLED--WE'LL TAKE A HAMMER TO IT AND BREAK IT UP."

"You can repurpose anything. I'm always looking for opportunities to find jars that I have open in my fridge and toss them into the next meal I'm making."

"I just love repurposing anything and just sort of making things from other things."

"I love the fact that I was essentially able to make this for next to nothing repurposing old material and giving it new life that's one of my passions the things that I make is taking things from the past and and repurposing them for new and better use."

"One of the cool things about our fire pit are these columns and these benches are all the old pieces of the temple of love that we got to see this morning repurposed."

"You know just repurpose them just a coat of paint or just giving them new life you know I absolutely love doing this with thrifted items."

"I love repurposing and reusing stuff so it doesn't end up in the landfill."

"This big old light bulb... I think it's going to be a fun project to work on to gut this light bulb and make it into a terrarium."

"It's great to see all these old wartime buildings here being repurposed."

"I'm actually quite in love with the concept here, they've taken sort of an old locker but then turned it into a stand."

"It's a reminder of how trash always has the potential for being repurposed without needing to be sent to a landfill."

"I love seeing when people reuse old gym flooring in their house; it's got all this history and marks from the years of being used inside of schools."

"It's brilliant to be able to reuse old things, isn't it?"

"There's so many wondrous ways to use book pages."

"When I'm walking through a thrift store, I have to think how can something be repurposed or reused."

"I love finding different uses for old books, but for this next project, I'm only going to be using the book cover."

"It's just really cool to take stuff that's basically ancient history and repurpose it."

"I like that there's an entire chapter on repurposing these leftovers into something new."

"Please try to keep your eyes out and see how you can repurpose things from the past."

"Repurposing cars to be planters, I don't think is the worst idea in the world."

"Tonight we repurposed the ham bones that we had yesterday."

"Bringing new life to an old device."

"Great repurpose of a single-use item."

"The statue of liberty is a recycled idea."

"Instead of just throwing them away, I started thinking about how I could use these."

"We always take something and repurpose it to fit what we want it to be."

"I love finding unique things that I can take and repurpose."

"This is solid oak... from an old stair baluster that I had from a few years ago doing a project."

"Whenever you have a beautiful piece like this, no sense covering it up; instead, cut it away and use it on another card."

"I love it when I can take something and repurpose it and make it even better."

"Everything was basically objects repurposed."

"We're gonna repurpose this wood for a beautiful bass pond."

"This is a really fun idea for repurposing that mold and giving us something a little different."

"I think they're so stunning, it was a great way to repurpose what I'm going to call trays into beautiful vintage home decor for Christmas time."

"It's a great way to conserve soil, conserve water, use, reuse, recycle, repurpose materials."

"Starting from scratch with like a blank sheet is really hard of like trying to figure out what's there but taking something and then being able to repurpose it or reimagine it I find to be a lot easier."