Maisha's elegant solution for keeping ponytail holders accessible:
We recently started keeping our hair ties on a glass bottle filled with paper stars, a reduce-reuse-recycle craft project we did a few months ago. It looks awesome and works great!
Related: Keep hair clips organized in magnetic spice canisters
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Wrapping them around the handle of the hairbrush works too.
Posted by: renee | 17 November 2011 at 07:15 AM
Not quite as elegant as this, but we do something similar to corral the dozens of rubber bands (from newspapers, etc.) that were junking up our junk drawer: they are now all around an empty toilet paper roll, still in the junk drawer.
Posted by: Molly | 30 November 2011 at 12:25 PM
I think it definitely looks neat but I don't like doing this because its stretches them out. I just toss them in an old ceramic candle holder I used as a decoration in my bathroom.
Posted by: House of Gryphon | 09 April 2012 at 05:52 PM