Now I keep one in my glove box. I had my students decorate a pill bottle for keeping in their desks—I filled them with a few bandaids, elementary students LOVE bandaids.
I really like your ideas for pill containers, I feel bad when I have to throw them away. Thanks for all the great ideas. As for the first aid kits any Girl Scouts out there can make them into a First Aid swap. Great ideas….. I also use them for toothpick holders when going on vacation. Also handy to keep in glove compartment in case you get something caught in your teeth while on the road. Take care!
I think a good Idea for a pill bottle could be an encouraging message slipped into a place someone could find…. I was having trouble with spools of thread rolling around and sometimes off the table. I used a needle to put a hole in the center of the lid of a pill bottle.
Put the spool of thread in the bottle and threaded the thread through the hole in the lid, and then snapped the lid on. The way to get the labels off is : Peanut Butter!. After you get as much as you can off by soaking in hot water or scraping, put peanut butter on the gunk that is left and let it sit at least one day and sometimes 2 or 3 days. If plastic, and you let it stay very long it will melt.
If glass you can let it get hotter and the glue will get hot and it will come off easier. Just be careful cause its hot right out of the microwave. My grandson uses them for hooks ,etc. I am going to make Christmas out of medicine bottles. Drill a hole thru the top. Take a piece of yarn or thick string and know it into the hole on the top. Glue the top on the bottle. Decorate the outside with paint or beads or glitter or anything you can think of.
Hang on a tree or bush outsine so when the leaves are gone the bottles will still be there for Christmas. PS…make the string long enough to tie to a branch. Thank you for letting me share. How do you get the labels off of the medicine bottles? They are so hard to get off. Is there something I can soak them in that will easily take the label and glue off?
I make a paste with blue dawn and baking soda. Remove as much of the label that you can. It helps to soak in very hot water for a n hour or more. Apply the paste onto the bottle, let sit for about an hour. Wash, if it still has residue on it, just start the process over. I usually can get it all of in 1 go around, but some items like food jars are a little more sticky, so you may jave to do again. Just use a blow dryer type hair dryer to warm up the glue holding the label on, it will peel right off.
Do you have a heat gun for embossing and other crafts? This is probably one of my most favorite sites I have come across, I along with the rest of the world seem to have a lot of free time coming up so I have hundreds of cleaned bottles and want to do something fun and cool with them, such great ideas here. So clad I found this. NTM everyone is so sweet and kind in here!!! Love the LOVE. I use bottles to store my dried seasonings.
Bad idea for 2. If you get pulled over and police go through your bag and see a pill bottle label ibuprofen, what makes you believe the police are going to believe the label name? Best just to use the real bottle ibuprofen comes in. But I would highly suggest that label instead of just writing on it. Amanda, the reason I came on your website is simply because I had a ton of pill bottles and was wondering what to do with them.
The reason I was going through my pill bottles is because during this time of COVID, I finally have time to focus on organizing and crafting.
Perhaps a plus side of this stay-in-place order? Thank you for your website. I always throw my empty medicine bottles in the recycle bin. Remove the lable first. I never imagined that there are several uses for these bottles. Multiply that time frame by the estimated 4 billion prescriptions filled by Americans each year.
To avoid this unfavorable fate for your bottles, ask your curbside recycling program if it accepts prescription bottles. According to Recycle Nation , the curbside programs in Sandy, Utah, and Oklahoma City are rare examples of cities that accept 5 plastic bottles.
A better option is to see if your local recycling center accepts 5 plastic. Number 5 plastics can also be recycled through a service called Gimme 5, a program run by Preserve , which makes consumer products from recycled plastic. They have a few commercial partners, but the biggest by far is Whole Foods Market. The grocer is a major partner in the Gimme 5 initiative and has 5 plastic collection bins in many of its stores. If you do not live near a Whole Foods, you can mail all your 5 plastic to Preserve using the address on its website.
Peeling it off is better because it ensures that no excess paper is going to end up in the recycling mechanism when the plastic arrives at the recycling plant. Also, we recommend checking your municipality's website regarding whether or not bottle caps are recyclable near you. Some municipalities prefer bottle caps be left on, others prefer you throw the caps in the bin separate from the bottles, and others ask that you throw bottle caps in the trash before recycling bottles.
There are a number of different organizations that accept old pill bottles. If you have already contacted your pharmacy about medication reconciliation, you may want to ask if they take back pill bottles as well. That way, you can kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, you could donate them as well. Cincinnati-based Matthew Ministries is an international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization. The organization accepts donations of plastic pill bottles, which it then repurpose and send out to help those in need. According to the website, Matthew Ministries accept prescription and over-the-counter pill bottles, as well as large and small pill bottles.
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