How to Recycle Valentine's Day Candy Boxes

Did you get a beautiful box of candy for Valentine's Day? After you eat the candy, which for me is the next day, do you hesitate to toss out the beautiful heart-shaped box? Here are the top five ways that you can recycle Valentine's Day candy boxes.

1. Store Jewelry Making Supplies and Beads

A Valentine candy box has dividers in it that are perfect for storing small beads that you use to make jewelry. You might want to wipe out the candy residue first, but the holes are great for corralling those little beads that love to go rolling off.

2. Store Your Earrings and Jewelry

Valentines candy boxes are pretty ways to store your favorite necklaces, earrings, or rings. Those necklaces stay untangled this way, and you can slide the pretty box in a drawer or leave it out on the dresser, if you want.

3. Use As a Decoration Next Valentine's Day

My mother thought of this. She had a beautiful Valentines Candy Box that she was planning to use this way. Most Valentine's Day decor is little heart-shaped boxes sitting around. You could stack irregular-sized heart boxes, too.

4. Sort Change In It

You can use your Valentine's Candy box to sort change. If you are saving for a special item, you can save by placing loose change in the holes where the candy used to be. Again, the box can slide in a kitchen drawer, or you can leave it out. You could label the box with the intended item you are saving to purchase.

It could also be a box for saving change to give to those in need. The heart theme is perfect for the charitable giving you will be doing with the money.

5. Store Love Letters In It

I think this is my favorite of all. In later years you will not only have your letters, but the beautiful memory of the candy from Valentine's Day many years ago.

You can probably think of hundreds of other ways to recycle Valentines Candy boxes.