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Empty wine bottles. I visited friends in Chicago Heights, Illinois a couple of summers ago--my old college roomie, her mom and sisters. They sit out by their garden on summer nights, drink wine, tell stories and smell the flowers. When they finish a bottle of wine they push the empty into the ground around the border of their many flower beds. It seemed like such a fun, quirky border that I tried to do it here in Kansas. Unfortunately the ground is a hard and unforgiving as the rest of this state. I might wedge one or two in, after a big rain, but, as you know it almost never rains here. The bottles do pile up. I keep them in boxes. Largish boxes.
At first they were on the deck but after the third box I started stashing them under the porch. There are quite a few now, waiting for the rains. I can't take them all out at once. Not in a small town like this. So I pop a few in at a time. It probably looks like I might have a problem to the termite inspection guys and the meter reader--s6
A person at the craft show here sells wine bottles they collapse - I presume melt-level heat just makes it collapse maybe - as cheese plates. Maybe you could make those if you, er, know someone who blows glass? Or you could stick candles and make old-school drip-over candle holders.
Oh, look, you just need access to a kiln.
My grandfather once came upon a store closing and offering stuff at some crazy discount. He brought home a box nearly his height, filled with toilet paper. I think it was from before I was born, but it was there into like, my high school years.