Reusing egg boxes

People give us lots of things that they don't need any more, from jam jars to unused hay, from old margarine tubs to broken paving stones. We find a use for them all. We often receive egg boxes. We can't sell eggs in someone else's branded egg boxes but they have a rather useful alternative use as mini plant pots. Cardboard ones can be planted directly into the ground or into bigger pots once seeds have germinated and grown sufficiently. Plastic ones have a small drainage hole punched in the bottom but have to be thrown away after one use. But at least we do get an extra use out of them rather than having them going straight into the waste stream.