“I don’t have room for all that crap although I do save SOME containers.”
I can’t/don’t keep all the stuff on that list because I don’t have the space, either, but a few of them I need to keep and don’t, so I will.
A good use for wine bottle corks is as trivets. They are thick and you can make them as large as you prefer. They even float!
You can super glue them together but I use sewing pins along with the glue. I stick the pin’s sharp end in the side of a cork, then clip off the head of the pin and file it to a point to be stuck in another cork. Be sure and glue that before pressing together. By adding corks you can make quite impressive sized trivets this way. These work very well outdoors too, if you are using Dutch Ovens and need a place to set down a really hot lid or pan.