{"id":910,"date":"2011-04-22T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-05-23T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T02:40:22","slug":"thrifty-and-green-alternative-uses-for-kitty-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/thrifty-and-green-alternative-uses-for-kitty-litter\/910\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty and Green! Alternative Uses for Kitty Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <i>clean<\/i> kitty litter, all right? The guys in the back can stop snickering. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog_pics\/fluffyonbed.jpg\" alt=\"Fluffy the Cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I thought a pic of one of our cats would be a little more interesting than a picture of kitty litter.<br \/>\nYou know what kitty litter looks like.) <\/center><\/p>\n<p>This may sound silly, but I ran across a couple articles about &#8220;alternative uses for kitty litter&#8221; and I thought, you know, there&#8217;s probably a lot of people like me who wouldn&#8217;t have thought of these &#8211; and they&#8217;re pretty smart. So here&#8217;s some I thought were the most useful: <\/p>\n<p>1. If you get motor oil on your driveway or the floor of your garage, sprinkle on some litter. It&#8217;ll absorb the oil. <\/p>\n<p>2. This is one of the first ones I ever used: Keep a big bag (this can be the cheapest non-clumping stuff) in your car all winter (or all year, depending on where you drive). It&#8217;s great for adding weight when you need it on icy roads &#8211; and sprinkled in front of your tires can help you get traction if you get stuck!<\/p>\n<p>3. Treat it almost like vermiculite when you&#8217;re planting your garden. Sprinkle in amongst your compost before you plant your veggies or flowers. It&#8217;ll help the soil retain water and it&#8217;s safe for the plants. <\/p>\n<p>4. Not surprisingly, it&#8217;s a pretty effective &#8220;odor eater&#8221;.  Slip it into a small muslin bag (or old socks!) and insert into your smelly sneakers. It&#8217;ll act like charcoal and draw out the odor. <\/p>\n<p>5. Same kind of a deal &#8211; odor eater &#8211; fill a small bowl or other container with litter and place it in the back of your fridge. It&#8217;ll help absorb odors. <\/p>\n<p>6. And one more on that line &#8211; sprinkle an inch of kitty litter in the bottom of a diaper pail.  You get the idea \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>7. This one I haven&#8217;t tried but it makes sense to me:  sprinkle it in the bottom of your grill (outside grill that is!) It&#8217;ll help prevent grease fires. <\/p>\n<p>See? Even non-cat people find it handy to have some kitty litter. It&#8217;s cheap, it&#8217;s useful, and hey, you might get a cat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, clean kitty litter, all right? The guys in the back can stop snickering. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>(I thought a pic of one of our cats would be a little more interesting than a picture of kitty litter. You know what kitty litter looks like.) <\/p>\n<p>This may sound silly, but I ran across a couple [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,15],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco_friendly","category-gardening","category-pets","tag-pets","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}