A Repurposed Item - The Small Print!

   
My neighbours were both meteorologists at a local military airfield.  In their day I believe they used rolls of paper in their machines for printing charts.  These rolls of paper had plastic tubes as spindles in the centre which were wasted at the end of the roll.  Both neighbours used these spindles as markers for their rows of veg plants and I managed to cadge a fair few.  35 years later they're still in use and being repurposed.