Ways to Reuse Old Medicine Bottles
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Find ways of giving new life to your old medicine bottles!
Make a mini-kit out of your empty pill bottle!
Empty pill bottles are great for mini sewing kits or first aid kits.
To make a mini sewing kit, fill your empty bottle with a needle, thread, measuring tape, safety pin, spare button and whatever else you might need.To make a mini first aid kit, fill your empty pill bottle with a bandaid, alcohol wipe, antiseptic wipe, aspirin packet, or whatever else you might find handy.
Make your pill bottle into a mini-ice pack!
To turn an empty medicine bottle into a mini-ice pack, simply fill part-way with water, cap and freeze. It won't take up much space in your freezer but will be ready in a pinch!
Clean, Empty Pill Bottles Can Make Great Cat Toys!
A sealed pill bottle filled with pebbles can make an excellent rattle toy for your cat.
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Reuse Clean, Empty Pill Bottles for Handy Storage!
Added bonus: Capped bottles are usually waterproof!
Old, empty pill bottles can be repurposed to store a variety of items. Some people use them to store quarters for the laundromat or pay phones. Others use them for carrying around plastic bags or waterproof matches on a camping trip. Other things you can store include buttons, beads, bobby pins, seeds, string, bobbins, and whatever else you can think of! "Empty pill bottles can make an excellent water-proof wallet for a hike or at the beach!"
Use Empty Pill Bottles for Arts and Crafts
Besides using empty pill bottles to organize small arts and crafts supplies, you can also use pill bottle lids as the base for cute homemade pin cushions!
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Use Clean, Empty Pill Bottles as Seed Starters!
Cleaned empty pill bottles are great for starting seeds before transplanting to your garden. They can be rinsed out and reused year after year!
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m-a-e wrote
hey love the info!
Posted March 09, 2009
alteredkat wrote...
*****great info!...I've used them to carry misc pills like Tums or Advil when traveling...great little storage compartments when you don't want to drag the whole medicine cabinet with you :o)...thanks for visiting my recycle old toothbrush lens!
I appreciate it!
Posted January 02, 2009
EchoTarpeian wrote...
welcome to Planet Earth: Our Garden of Eden... I have featured this lens in our Re-Use It! Corner. Namastè, Echo
Posted December 18, 2008
