Re-purposing household items for quilting

So - what common household items do you use when quilting?

For this project, I've grabbed

• a salad bowl from the kitchen, which we never use for actual salad (may need to just grab the rest of the set as well as I like the size and weight) to hold my pinning supplies, 
• along with a cruet dish which is currently accepting the pins as I remove them from the quilt (will likely go back to using my magnetic pin holder). 
• my favorite - the coffee stir sticks, something of which there never seems to be a shortage - our Cub Scout pack has thousands of these. We are thinking about having the boys build things with them, but I digress (and due to the CS sticks being stored elsewhere, the ones I used are not from the Pack, so we still have thousands available...)
• blue painters tape is wonderful for tacking items temporarily (emphasis on temporary) and for marking borders and the like
• binder clips, not shown, are fabulous for clamps. I bought extra large clips fresh so as not to worry about transferring any inks from papers or previously clipped items.

So what items have you re-purposed from around the house?