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5/29/12 10:17 A

I keep saving them and saving them!
Right now I've separated the words alphabetically in my magnetic poetry collection, and I have the words in them.

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5/12/12 9:24 P

They are also great for holding bobbi pins, little rubber bands for hair, and they make nice m&m containers after washed really well. Portion control made easy.

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6/28/10 12:10 P

I've enjoyed reading all your ideas. I've just kept saving them and saving them, thinking that someday I'd put them to good use. Now I can!

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6/14/10 10:23 A

My son has been putting his smaller rock collection in them.

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6/14/10 8:06 A

I use them and 35mm film containers for all sorts of odds and ends, pins, change, extra buttons, sequins,my daughters barbie doll shoes! We also use those M& M mini containers in many of the same ways.
Always something to stick in them to have handy we also put matches in to keep them from getting wet for our emerency kits!

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6/7/10 2:51 A

I store seeds in them.

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6/6/10 11:34 A

The regular size ones make great change holders, especially for quarters. They're good to fill for kid's gifts, or anyone needing change for laundromats, buses, pop-machines, etc. Decorate for a special gift with contact paper, collage, glue on seed beads, etc.

Fill 1/3 with dry rice or beans, tape two or more to a chopstick and the kids have maracas to shake.

Great for organizing beads, pins, sewing needles, buttons, etc.

They make great bobbers for fishing if you can put a bead of hot glue around the cap to make them not fill with water. Hot glue a loop from a metal twist tie so you can quickly attach to a fishing line. I use craft wire wrapped around the cap with loop, then when I hot glue it, the hot glue anchors it down.

Make emergency kits:
1. First Aid: BandAids, alcohol swab, gauze pad
2. Sunburn: Snack zip loc with a squirt of lotion, one with sunscreen, one with paper towel.
3. Handiwipes: paper towels moistened with water and rubbing alcohol. Put in zip loc if pill bottles leak.
4. Sewing kit
5. Trash: plastic trash bags, or plastic grocery bags.



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6/5/10 2:25 P

Great advice! Diana

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6/5/10 2:03 P

You can cover some of them with polymer clay. Make some canes and slice them off and stick on. They make pretty little containers.

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6/5/10 12:26 P

What do you do with your empty prescription pill bottles? I am really getting a collection and they are cluttering my cabinent. I would love to hear ideas on what you do with these plastic containers. Diana

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