It’s easy to consider your tea bags as one-use items. You brew your iced tea, then you throw away the used bag, right? It turns out, there are plenty of genius ways to re-use those damp, little packets of tea.

For one, they can feed your garden. If you have watered-down iced tea at the bottom of the pitcher, use this to water your plants. Or, you can open the used tea bags and sprinkle the damp leaves around your plants to fertilize them.

Is your skin irritated or sunburned? Cooled, moist tea bags are a natural way to soothe your skin. While it’s popular to place tea bags over your eyes to ease discomfort and reduce puffiness, you can also massage bags over sunburns, bruises, bites, stings, and rashes to lessen inflammation.

Tea bags are also excellent, natural air fresheners. Hanging tea bags in a room can give the space an earthy and subtle smell, and it’s easy to add a drop or two of essential oil to enhance the perfume. You can also pour loose tea leaves into a decorated bowl.

Ready to try out a few of these ideas? The American Dreams gift box is perfect for this time of year with a gallon’s worth of iced tea, gourmet brownies, and red, white, and blue rice cereal stars. Celebrate your dreams, and remember to re-use the tea!