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12 Things to Do With Old Pill Bottles

February 2, 2017 by Amber 7 Comments

Store quarters for laundry day. Or, keep one in your car for an easy way to locate the money need to pay tolls. Genius!

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Use it to measure out detergent for the washer. Old pill bottles fit perfectly in the detergent tray, and this will help prevent any sudsy messes!

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Keep some bobby pins handy in the car or while road tripping.

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Put a spare key inside a pill bottle, glue a rock to the top, and hide or bury it in your yard.

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Keep your earbuds in one to ensure they don’t get tangled in your pocket, because we all know that this is one of the most annoying things ever.

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Pack Q-tips into a pill bottle for travel. Just because you’re vacationing doesn’t mean your earwax is!

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Hang your batteries under a shelf in old vitamin bottles. Attach them to the board with a quick dab of super glue, or you can screw them on yourself!

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Recycle old, broken crayons by melting them and putting them into a pill bottle to create an entirely new set of gigantic crayons. My kids would love these!

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Pill bottle cookies are perfect for Christmas, and just about any other holiday! Your coworkers might thing you’re weird, but at least you’ll be intuitive!

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Paint the bottles to make toothbrush holders for everyone in the family.

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Put your cake piping tools in individual pill bottles. Label the lids so you know what you can find in each!

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Create your own nail polish remover tubs with cotton balls and pill bottles. Simply pack 2 or three cotton balls in the pill bottle, and pour a bit of nail polish remover over top of them. Put your finger in, and twist for easy (and mostly hands free!) nail polish removal.

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  1. Carol says

    February 2, 2017 at

    I love your ideas but there must be an easier way to view them instead of click to this and click to that. And it takes forever to come up .. I have a fast internet.

    Reply
    • Chris St Jean says

      April 7, 2017 at

      I agree entirely.

      Reply
  2. Alycea aka Piddlewick says

    February 3, 2017 at

    Good fun! Thanks. Lots of good ideas and a couple I can definitely see doing.

    Reply
  3. Tami says

    August 15, 2017 at

    Some of these I already do, but some I had not thought of. Thanks!

    Reply
  4. elizabeth northern says

    December 8, 2017 at

    I agree it takes too long to see the ideas for prescription bottles that should be only a couple clicks and you’re saying he had to get your viewing up but can you make it easier for us some of us people don’t see too well thank you happy holidays

    Reply
  5. Helen says

    March 31, 2018 at

    Must be a faster way to view than click for each view!!

    Reply
  6. Wanda says

    April 19, 2018 at

    I love all of your ideas! The best one for me was the ear plugs storage .

    Reply

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