Reusing Bottles

Have you ever come across a bottle that you just don't want to throw away? Probably everyone has at one time or another. But, are there uses for those bottles that will make it worth keeping them for something other than a dust collector? Sure there is and here are a few ideas.

In the kitchen a bottle can have several new uses. A bottle can be used as a rolling pin. Simply fill up the bottle you have chosen to keep with water, but the cap back on it and use it to flatten the dough by rolling the bottle over on it. A cruet for water and oil can be made using a bottle. A centerpiece for the kitchen table can be made by creating a vase for flowers out of a bottle and adding a few flowers to it.

There are even uses for bottle that are not necessarily pretty ones that you would want to keep around the house to look at. These are the plastic ones that sodas come in. A holster to hold a drill can be made from using a large plastic bottle by cutting off the neck portion of the bottle and then cutting the bottle diagonally about halfway. This creation can be screwed to the workshop wall or slits can be cut in it to run a work belt through.

Having trouble getting a fire to burn. Use a plastic bottle as a bellow to blow air on the fire. To do this clean a plastic ketchup bottle or other squeezable bottle that has a hole in the top, allow to dry, then simply point the hole at the fire and squeeze the bottle.

Need something to occupy the kids on a rainy day? How about bowling? Sounds crazy, but plastic bottles can be used as bowling pins. Gather up 10 plastic bottles, let the kids number them from 1 to 10 with paints or markers. Now find a rubber ball to use as a bowling ball and you have a fun activity for a rainy day.

There are many uses for bottles that I have not included. Please feel free to add to these listed here. Remember the more uses we have for the bottles that we empty, the less bottles will go into land fills around the country. So before you through that bottle away, make sure that you can not use it for something else, who knows you may just come up with something that no one else has thought of yet.