15 uses for your used pill bottles

[Jazzy1]

Here are 15 uses for your used pill bottles: https://home.howstuffworks.com/green-living/uses-old-pill-bottles.htm

What do you do with your used pills bottles?

 

[IrishEyes]

Great Ideas, I been using mine for #1 for a quite awhile, small screws, tacks, nails that I need around the indoors

 

[Lewkat]

I have seen small children open these "child proof containers" in no time. Sly little ones that they are.

 

[Cornhusker]

I throw most of them away, and I go through a lot.
I have a work bag and a town bag, and each bag has things I might need.
Some of those things go into pill bottles.
PJCB (cotton balls infused with petroleum jelly) as a fire starting aid.
I keep a days' worth of medicine in pill bottles in each bag, just in case I don't make it home in time.
Matches, Q-Tips, char cloth, Band-Aids, etc.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

From the list in your link, I liked this one:

5. Hide-a-key​

The key to your front door will fit in a prescription bottle hidden in nooks and crannies around the outside of your house. If you want to get really fancy, you can hot glue a small rock to the lid of the bottle and bury it in the landscaping somewhere inconspicuous.

 

[MountainRa]

I’m not sure of the validity of this but I’ve read that some animal shelters request empty pill bottles to put animal medications in.

 

[911]

I don’t need more junk laying around. We only have a few and they go into the recycle bin when emptied.

 

[That Lady in PA]

I don’t need more junk laying around. We only have a few and they go into the recycle bin when emptied.

Same here!

 

[Imogene]

When my IR/Cushings horse was on Prascend, he only got half tablet daily. I would prepare a couple of days ahead and keep them in the cupboard with his name on the bottles.

Saved me time from chopping pills every night, especially if I was running late to the barn.

Otherwise, they get pitched.

 

[raybar]

We do not save prescription bottles because they're ugly and covered with labeling. Lots of nicer small bottles and jars pass through our kitchen - spice bottles for example - and we have quite enough of those for our needs.

 

[jujube]

I keep beads in them that someday I'm going to get around to making jewelry with. Someday. In the meantime, they're neatly stored.

 

[Jackie23]

Good tips here...My probiotics come in a clear glass bottle, I've been saving the bottles....bacon bits in one and different cooking seasonings in others.

 

[oldman]

Definitely some good ideas, especially if anyone has several lying around.

 

[Jules]

My one prescription is for 100 pills. I have an empty container that I put in 7 of the pills every week. If Tuesday rolls around and I have one extra, I know I missed a day. Or I can count in the middle of the week and deduct if I haven’t taken one today.

I like the idea for packing earrings for travel.

They are a better quality plastic. Some plastics shouldn’t be reused for anything.

 

[squatting dog]

I keep strike anywhere matches in one and Vaseline coated cotton balls in another. Just the prepper in me.
I have another I keep my dead hearing aid batteries in... one to recycle when full, but, more importantly, keep my little fur babies from finding one on the floor and swallowing it.

 

[jujube]

They are a better quality plastic. Some plastics shouldn’t be reused for ananything.

That's good news for uses. Stands to reason that if they originally store items that are ingested, they'll have to be safe.

 

[Disgustedman]

I happen to put pennies in a large jug and have smaller jugs for dimes, nickels and quarters in my vehicle. The pennies can be tossed to some of the beggars, the rest of the change I use for either laundry or parking meters.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I never thought about re-using those pill bottles. I just toss them out. Even if I could find a use for 20-25 pill bottles, what do I do with the other 100/year ones?

 

[WheatenLover]

In the car, I keep quarters in one in case I go to Aldi. The others, I remove the label and toss.

 

[RedAlert76]

I keep strike anywhere matches in one and Vaseline coated cotton balls in another. Just the prepper in me.
I have another I keep my dead hearing aid batteries in... one to recycle when full, but, more importantly, keep my little fur babies from finding one on the floor and swallowing it.

I do that to.. put used hearing aid batteries in old pill bottles. Sheriff' office takes them and other batteries to a recycle place

 

[RedAlert76]

E Scripts how we get meds. has bottles that are way to big for the meds and hard to open. I put meds in regular Rx bottle and relabel if needed. Also paper clips, safety pins, use for traveling, various things

 

[Sunny]

I put them in the recycle bin, along with all the other plastic containers that are allowed.

 

[Oldeagle66]

I used to clean them up and use them for anything, nails, coins, rubber bands....etc. But I go through so many now that I started throwing them away again.

 

[OldFeller]

When I was a teenager. I built a model, out of cardboard and other things around the house, of the Jupiter 2 spaceship from Lost in Space and I used Rx pill bottles, which my pharmacist brother got for me, turned upside down as the Freezing Tubes inside the ship. I doubt that made the list of possible uses.

Lost In Space Freezing Tubes put people asleep for long space travel journeys. But Dr Smith (Oh, the pain) put an end to the journey.

 

[Paulina]

I've only kept one for Q-tips otherwise I recycle them. This is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off base, but my husband keeps 2-liter bottles to throw his sharps in. Easy to cap them off and take to the bin at the hospital when full.