Comments on: Too many flower vases

By: Wanda

Wanda — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:41:28 +0000

Contact your local hospice. I’m a volunteer coordinator for Avalon hospice and we recycle floral bouquets and deliver the flowers weekly to our hospice patients. So we are always in need of used flower vases. Please consider donation to your local hospice.

By: brokensaint

brokensaint — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:52:56 +0000

For those saying that you should avoid spending all your time on it – join freecycle. Doesn’t take but a second to list them, someone will want them, and you’re not contributing to landfills.

By: Just Breathe

Just Breathe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:33:20 +0000

One local florist uses the vases to distribute free flowers to nursing homes whenever the flowers might go to waste.

Another local florist offered me free flowers for the vases.

I cleaned the vases well, and then washed them in the dishwasher to sanitize them before I took to the florist.

By: Wynell

Wynell — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:42 +0000

Wash and dry them. Put them all in a big box you can carry. Take them to a small florist–not a chain when no othe customers are there. Offer them to the owner at a ridiculously low price. He’ll take yours just like he did mine.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:35:11 +0000

Turn it upside down and use it to hold plates, bowls, etc. that need to be higher on a buffet. Or to make sure a short plant gets sunshine.

By: jen

jen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:56:10 +0000

I’m a florist and always accept vases. It cuts the costs for my arrangements thus allowing me to make full bouquets for an inexpensive rate. It’s pretty sad that your local florists wouldn’t accept them.

By: brista

brista — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:03:19 +0000

I’d just freecycle it and be done with it, personally!

By: K-MAP

K-MAP — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:29:13 +0000

Fantastic Ideas! I’m sorry I got here so late. I had a bunch of cylinder vases left over from my wedding. Now I cover them with scrapbook paper or fabric and use them as candle-holders for entertaining. It is a cheap way to change the decor every time. Not sure if you ever made paper-bag luminaries, but you can place sand and tea-lights in the bottom of the vases and line you front walkway of your home with candlelight if you hosting a special evening event. Your guests will be guiding straight to the front door. Enjoy! K-MAP

By: m

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:16:33 +0000

My local florist is always delighted to get them.

By: tw```

tw``` — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:57:37 +0000

If you belong to a church or other place of worship, they may need them to take altar flowers after Services to the homebound or sick parishioners…. at least this is what ours does. They always need plain vases.

By: Robin L.

Robin L. — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:43:30 +0000

Save one for holding utensils next to the stove. I ditto on the nonprofits needing vases for banquets and hospitals wanting them. I have a friend who uses them, upside down, for trimming pathways in her garden.

By: Brenda Monrreal

Brenda Monrreal — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:09:09 +0000

You can put sand or really small rocks and you can put pens and pencils inside of it! I saw this great idea in an office and it gave it a really nice chick look!

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:19:04 +0000

Candy buffets are all the rage at weddings these days… use a wide variety of vases for different types of candy. They make any sort of get together more festive and fun. I have also seen larger vases used as “wish bowls” for weddings and baby showers, where guests can write short messages for the honoree(s).

I have a very large vase in my office filled with long split sticks/branches. It brings a bit of the outdoors into my work space, keeps me sane. Other people in my office have bamboo shoots growing in theirs – they’re very pretty and EASY to maintain.

By: Michele Morgan

Michele Morgan — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:07:05 +0000

I use a combination of vases, baskets, and terra cotta pots in my bathroom closet. I store all my nail polish in one, my pain reliever type drugs in one, all prescriptions in another, bubble bath and lotion products in another, rolled up white washclothes in another, etc.

Also consider giving the to a bride who is on a budget. She can combine a grouping of all clear vases with different designs. If she uses the same flowers in each, it’ll pull it all together.

By: Cath Young

Cath Young — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:39:03 +0000

They can make nice seasonal decorations and change of color decor by filling them with ornaments. For Christmas, I have some filled with cheap ornaments of a single color from the dollar shop. Can really pick up the room. I have one in my powderroom filled with soaps that I’ve picked up at hotels. You can also do your own silk flower arrangements with some of them.

The small bud vases are good for when you want to give someone a small thank you gift. You can just take one flower stem, put it in the bud vase, put a ribbon around the vase with a thank you note attached. Perfect teacher’s gift or thank’s for the ride gift.