Prescription Bottles
By Modestah
@Modestah (11177)
United States
May 19, 2008 6:50pm CST
Prescription bottles come in all sorts of sizes, are usually (for me anyhow) an amber colored plastic with a child proof lid.
What do you do with your emptied bottles?
Do you use them to store anything else?
my girls like to use them to put delicate flower cuttings in and decorate my bathroom counter.
my husband likes to use them to capture spiders in
I like to use them to store little bits and pieces. my giant ones store such things as staples, pins, nails and all sorts of odds and ends.
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16 responses
@Modestah (11177)
• United States
20 May 08
and my pharmacy will not accept the bottles back. I tried once - thinking it would help cut costs greatly if they had a recycle program - but they do not. I was advised to contact my local refuge facility and see if they would take them.
maybe they are concerned about trace particles of medication mixing with a contraindicated med... but you would think that could be sterilized out of the bottle. but then, meds are not germs. hmmm.
@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
20 May 08
Modestah, My husband takes the labels off and uses them out in the shed for screws and things. he really only likes the bigger fatter ones tho. The little ones I peel the labels off of and toss them.
@kimbers867 (2539)
• United States
7 Sep 08
I use mine to carry Excedrin, Motrin Jr., or Pepcid in them. I have a bottle for each and then they go in my purse.
Luckily we don't have a lot of bottles.
I might start saving them since my girls have gotten into beading.
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
20 May 08
Believe it or not I have NEVER reused an empty prescription bottle, for anything. I usually throw them away. I don't tend to collect many of them, although I do have several in my medicine cabinet that have been in there for years, probably time to get rid of them and their contents!
@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
7 Jul 08
One of my clients stores spools of thread in her empty prescription containers. They keep them organized pretty good.
@hockeygal4ever (10021)
• United States
20 May 08
I wish I had a true use for them but it's rare that I really have a use for them. I have quite a few at the end of each month too! I used to save them for my girlscouts and such but I don't have that anymore.
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
20 May 08
some bottles that i think i can still reuse(prescription bottles)i kept..and used it for pins,and other small things that we use in our house..and very handy i guess...
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
21 May 08
They are stored in a cupboard at the moment and not sure what to do with them. I might just rip off the labels and throw them in the recycle bin.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
21 May 08
i put sewing needles in them,and sometimes beads when my bead box is full.anything little or pointy i don't want to lose,more or less.i hate to just throw them out,as they're still useful.
@ladyljs (1303)
• United States
20 May 08
I don't have that many, and they are usually small bottles, so we just throw them in the trash.
It's too bad that we can't just take them back to the pharmacist to renew...what a savings that would be for them! Maybe they could even have a recycling bottle program...lol!
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
20 May 08
I have used them to hold art supplies. I have also used empty prescription bottles to mix acrylic paint in. I have done that quite a few times. This way it is contained and doesn't dry out as fast as it does sitting in the open air on the palette.
I admit that I throw most of them away though.
@beader (1)
• United States
7 Jul 08
I found a place to send your old prescription bottles to be recycled. A boy named Jacob Willard started P.R.O.(Prescription bottle, Recycling,Operation.
He has a website not sure if I can list it here but it is
waste-not-want-not.tripod.com
@mummymo (23706)
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20 May 08
I remember my gran used to use the bottles to put milk on for her flask of tea when we went on long journeys or picnics! I tend to return the bottles to the Chemists when they are empty as I know if I didn't my daughter would nab them to 'make' things with! lol xxx
