Empty Prescription Bottles

Empty Prescription Bottles

 

Today I’m sharing some ideas of what I do with the many empty prescription bottles that we acquire each month.  I remove the labels and wash the bottles then throw them all in a box until I get an idea to use them.   Since we end up with a variety of bottle sizes, I can use them for a lot of different ways.

Some of the common ideas are to use them store small beads for crafting or buttons.   We also use them to store nails, screws or nuts and bolts.

Did you ever keep loose change in your glove box or console?  When you open either of them, the change gets scattered all through the glove box.  You won’t have that problem if you store your change in an empty prescription bottle!

My granddaughter had a brainstorm of an idea the other day.  She was measuring out enough formula for her daughter’s bottle and putting two scoops in a baggy.  It wasn’t that easy to get the formula into the bottle because it stuck to the plastic.  So we checked online for small bottles that were made to hold the dry formula.  As I was checking the sizes and prices, her brainstorm hit… why not use one of the smaller sized empty bottles for the formula!   I went to my stockpile and found the perfect size empty prescription bottle that held two scoops perfectly!  Two scoops makes 4 oz. of formula so even when she gets up to 8 oz. Alexandra can either use two small bottles or we can use the larger sized bottle that holds four scoops.  This idea saved her a good bit of money!

 

But the one thing that we used an empty bottle for was totally off the wall.  You might say it’s frugal or cheap or you might say I could go to the Dollar Store and buy one.  I turned an empty prescription bottle into a salt shaker!  We hardly use salt but now and then it’s nice to have on hand so I took a medium-sized bottle, poked holes in the top, filled it with salt and I had a simple but usable salt shaker!  Of course this wouldn’t work when having a formal dinner or company over but it works in a pinch!  Get it, “a pinch of salt”?

Besides using the empty bottles for other ideas, it also saves them from going in the landfill and I love being able to come up with ideas to use things that they aren’t meant to be used for.

 

This is a blog I wrote about turning old patio tables that were destined for the trash into some cool bird feeding stations.  I just don’t have the heart to throw anything away!  http://themarthareview.com/bird-feeding-station-from-junk/

This is another blog about making junk useful. http://themarthareview.com/making-junk-useful/

Do you like to come up with ideas for things that they weren’t made for?