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magidOther than recycling, what can I do with empty film cannisters?
(I don't want to use them for food of any sort, because I don't believe the plastic is food-grade.) If you have a project that could use a number of them, I'm very happy to contribute them!
On a related note, what can I do with old prescription containers (the prescription information has been very nicely peeled off already)? Ditto.
[totally off-topic addendum: the alarm (or whatever it was) finally stopped ringing late yesterday afternoon. Next step: find out what it was. No apology from the neighbors yet...]
(I don't want to use them for food of any sort, because I don't believe the plastic is food-grade.) If you have a project that could use a number of them, I'm very happy to contribute them!
On a related note, what can I do with old prescription containers (the prescription information has been very nicely peeled off already)? Ditto.
[totally off-topic addendum: the alarm (or whatever it was) finally stopped ringing late yesterday afternoon. Next step: find out what it was. No apology from the neighbors yet...]
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Date: 2004-02-17 04:34 am (UTC)Ah well - the only use I ever found for them was as salt & pepper shakers for camping trips. They made (perhaps still make) little plastic tops that had a flap covering a few salt-shaker holes. It was the cutest thing.
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Date: 2004-02-17 05:15 am (UTC)I've gotten more squicked over the years, having read a few too many articles about how different plastics can give off fumes of one sort or another that are not ideal for ingesting. Salt might be relatively inert, but ground pepper is surely not (plus I've become more of a black-pepper snob, preferring freshly ground to the stuff in the shakers).
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Date: 2004-02-17 04:58 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-17 05:17 am (UTC)Hm... have a number of them with different grains (rice, barley, split peas, etc) for different sounds, glued together or held together somehow, perhaps decorating them...
(Though I'd have to remember to put it away for Pesach :-).
Cool.
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:17 am (UTC)You could make some sort of weird - concentration-like game using them, where you put different colored marbles in them and try to find the matching colors.
You could use them as mini-time capsules, stashing stuff in them that you want to recover in the future, then burying them in the yard.
You could also sell crack in them; much safer then the glass bottles they typically use.
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Date: 2004-02-17 07:03 am (UTC)Mini time capsules: I wouldn't want to leave something in the condo yard... and far too much of my current stuff is non-mini time capsules :-)
Crack is sold in glass bottles? If it's not safe, why use glass? (Why wouldn't it be safe?)
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Date: 2004-02-17 07:37 am (UTC)Here's Andy Looney talking about time capsules (http://www.wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2003/WN.01.16.03.html).
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Date: 2004-02-17 07:56 am (UTC)Er, on what shelf? I have empty shelf space...? ;-)
I suppose it would make sense to put things all together in one place as a snapshot of time X, but in some ways I think of a journal doing the same thing, though without the interesting toys/photos (er, in my journal, anyway)/other 3-D items.
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:38 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-17 06:59 am (UTC)Perhaps that should change...
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:04 am (UTC)I like the grogger idea.
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Date: 2004-02-17 08:08 am (UTC)If I make the grogger, I'll definitely report back (I usually use the one I made at the JCC when I was about 8).
small ingredients = beads; I just like that, probably 'cause I tend to reserve "ingredients" for food.
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Date: 2004-02-17 02:04 pm (UTC)Y'know, I wrote that, paused, searched my brain quickly for an alternative, got nothing, and decided that "ingredient" doesn't have to be food-specific. :-)
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:45 am (UTC)Film canisters are another story. That said, I've seen them used for things like Catan letter-counters, a couple of dice, quarters, game money for lots of games... stuff like that. You could also use them for glitterdust. Basically, non-food items are OK. I'd think edibles to be a no-no for those because I can still smell photograph chemical solution when I open them. Soft plastic.
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Date: 2004-02-17 09:56 am (UTC)Need any containers for game pieces?
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Date: 2004-02-17 10:01 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-17 10:07 am (UTC)I have more of the former than the latter, but you're welcome to any.
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