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Old 11-29-2008, 12:41 PM
 
Location: N. TX / S. OK
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I can't believe no-one has mentioned cutting off the tops and using them as funnels for adding fluids to your car etc.
I've done that before. Back when I used to buy soda in those bottles, which I no longer do.
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Old 11-29-2008, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Yes, I use the for funnels, but I only need several dozen funnels, and then I hve to start looking for other uses for them. I make larger funnels out of milk jugs.

I use a square sardine tin upside down with a few holes punched in it, for a soap dish. It rusts and gets rust flakes all over my soap, but that doesn't hurt.

In places where I have an occasional need for a small waste basket, I just rinse out cans and set them about the house. You can pack a lot of scraps into one.
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Old 11-30-2008, 03:21 PM
 
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I use a square sardine tin upside down with a few holes punched in it, for a soap dish. It rusts and gets rust flakes all over my soap, but that doesn't hurt.

In places where I have an occasional need for a small waste basket, I just rinse out cans and set them about the house. You can pack a lot of scraps into one.
Hopefully you are joking.
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Old 12-02-2008, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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They do make good feeders for the birds but I already have about ten of them scattered around the back yard and no need for more of them.

What ingenious ideas have others of you came up with for using them?

GL2

Back in the college days, we converted a few of these into different types of bongs. The real glass ones were pushing $200 each and we couldn't afford them.
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Old 12-02-2008, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Oriental, NC
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Back in the college days, we converted a few of these into different types of bongs. The real glass ones were pushing $200 each and we couldn't afford them.
LOL don't tell my daughter!
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Old 12-02-2008, 04:36 PM
 
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Feeling creative? Lots of pretty things here, all made from plastic bottles...

Artistic Recycling 3: Plastic Bottles

To keep cats off your garden, half-fill plastic bottles and leave in the places they would walk - seems they are scared of them and won't come near! Supposedly they don't like the way the light catches the water...

Keeping cats off the garden
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Old 12-02-2008, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Nebraska
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I appreciate the ingenuity of the student who uses the 2 liter bottles as a bong. It just makes you wonder how many really great ideas are floating around in his head that he might be able to capitalize on if he wasn't handicapping his mental processes with the smokin dope.

"A mind is a terrible think to waste". LOL

GL2
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Old 12-02-2008, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Nebraska
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I came up with another good use for the plastic bottles over Thanksgiving Day weekend.
It is a tradition at our house to get the SCRABBLE board out at family get togethers.
One of my sisters and a Nephew take excessively long times to come up with a word. I had checked into buying one of those small hour glass timers that use sand but I didn't want to go to a store so I got to thinking. I figured two of the smaller 16 oz plastic bottles set up in an hour glass configuration would work great.

I grabbed a couple of them out of the trash and drilled a 3/8" hole through the centers of the caps. I then used the HOT GLUE gun and glued the bottle caps together back to back. After drying them out inside I poured one of them about 2/3 full with some white rice. When turned upside down it took around two minutes for the rice to trickle through from top to bottom. It works great and I made several of them for everyone to take home.

I made ten of them in less than a half hour and I have several requests to make more for Xmas stocking stuffers. One of the neighbor kids is a budding artist and he is planning on dressing some of them up in various cartoon variations. I think he might be able to make a few extra dollars over the Holidays and I won't have to worry about what to do with all my leftover plastic bottles. At least until we saturate the market.

GL2
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Old 12-03-2008, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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I appreciate the ingenuity of the student who uses the 2 liter bottles as a bong. It just makes you wonder how many really great ideas are floating around in his head that he might be able to capitalize on if he wasn't handicapping his mental processes with the smokin dope.

"A mind is a terrible think to waste". LOL

GL2

Yeah, what happened to these guys? As I sift through the haze, now I remember. They're all age 30 now - married w/ young families. One became an electrical engineer pulling $100k, one a construction manager who's raking in $140k, and that guy who just got his microbiology PhD. Yep, they're very handicapped people indeed!

Maybe they ought to be truck drivers or employees of corrections systems?
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Old 12-03-2008, 08:04 AM
 
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Feeling creative? Lots of pretty things here, all made from plastic bottles...

Artistic Recycling 3: Plastic Bottles

Ohh, thanks for that link!

Only, we don't drink soda at our house still, gave me some ideas for recycling some of our other plastic containers!
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