Query

[magid]

Other 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.

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[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...]

Comments

[majes.livejournal.com]

Hrmmm...

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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[magid.livejournal.com]

Concentration could work, for things other than marbles, too ("Which container had the other plastic frog in it?"), if I can muster enough that are the same. Right now, I have some that are white, some that have flat tops, and some that are ridged.

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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[queue.livejournal.com]

Time capsules don't have to be buried. Just stick them on a shelf or something.

Here's Andy Looney talking about time capsules (http://www.wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2003/WN.01.16.03.html).

Re: Time Capsules

[magid.livejournal.com]

Cool link. Thanks.

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.