Pots & Pans lids (what to do with)

[Minelson]

I was blessed with a wonderful new set of pots and pans for Christmas So I'm making room and I have a gazzillion old lids. I'm trying to think of uses instead of just tossing them. Any ideas?

[Helena]

Send them to recycling or to a local non-profit resale shop. You can't keep everything in the kitchen. Simplify..

[Windy in Kansas]

What are they made of? If not reused as lids or something else you can come up with the metal in them may be worth a little. I picked up a salvage metal price list from a local buyer on Thursday and stainless steel is worth 71¢ a pound. Aluminum at 50¢ a pound. Would take several lids of either to yield much but at least they have some value.

[PNWest]

If you have metal pan lids that have an inner lip; such as Revere ware, take a board and screw a screw through the board and into the pan knob. Secure the lid or lids and use as chicken feeders. Other animal feeders, slug traps, bird feeders, ahhh..... nail and screw holders. Holders for parts. Button holders, pin and needle holders. Let your use dictate what you can do with them.

[dinytcb]

My Dh makes birdfeeders out of them. He takes a dowel rod or old chair spindle about 8 to 10 inches long, screws a lid on one end the turns one upside down and screws it on the other. We hang them from trees.

[GrannyG]

Windchimes...hang the silverware off of them...LOL

[shanzone2001]

Have a New Year's Eve party and give everyone 2 to bang at midnight and take home!!

[shanzone2001]

And you can write 2011 in puffy paint on them as souveniers from your party!!!

[Rusty'sDog]

Believe me when I say this: a friend or neighbor has a pot "that" size, but no lid for it. My mother had a drawer full of lids for pots that no longer existed in the home. Somebody wants/needs them (or at least ONE of them). Ask your kin, friends, neighbors...they will mostly be gone...give the rest to a church bazaar store...they are all needed somewhere.
God knows, I have ended up through the years with many great pots that had no matching lid!

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by shanzone2001

Have a New Year's Eve party and give everyone 2 to bang at midnight and take home!!

[Our Little Farm]

Hang them in your garden to deter birds and predators. Paint owl eyes on one!

[featherbottoms]

I second the thrift shop donation idea. I was tickled pink a while back to find a 10" lid at the thrift store for 25 cents. It was the size I'd been looking for for a long time.