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Many Milk Bottles - January 2019
Trying to reduce my recycling and be more effective around home, I have been using plastic milk bottles (2L size) for many things.
Washed out and left whole they store -bicarb soda, washing powder, cat food, rice and pasta, anything that comes in a bag but should be airtight after opened. If you cut down the top of a 2L Coke bottle, it works perfectly as a funnel (separate ones for different things) and it makes it a lot easier to fill the milk bottles. I also cut milk bottles down to different sizes, to use for different things: cut in half and use to store bathroom items on the counter, different items in your pantry, as drawer dividers, pet food bowls, to hold craft supplies, to store small things in your garage, cut to make baskets for kids to make presents, as kitchen plant pots and tray (one inside another, top one with holes in bottom to drain), the list could go on. I like using milk bottles because they are white (go with everything), easy to cut to the size you need, can be replaced (and recycled) when you don't need them anymore, are easy to stick together, and are easy to label nicely so you know what they are for.
Contributed by Denise Scotford
What ideas do you have?
Washed out and left whole they store -bicarb soda, washing powder, cat food, rice and pasta, anything that comes in a bag but should be airtight after opened. If you cut down the top of a 2L Coke bottle, it works perfectly as a funnel (separate ones for different things) and it makes it a lot easier to fill the milk bottles. I also cut milk bottles down to different sizes, to use for different things: cut in half and use to store bathroom items on the counter, different items in your pantry, as drawer dividers, pet food bowls, to hold craft supplies, to store small things in your garage, cut to make baskets for kids to make presents, as kitchen plant pots and tray (one inside another, top one with holes in bottom to drain), the list could go on. I like using milk bottles because they are white (go with everything), easy to cut to the size you need, can be replaced (and recycled) when you don't need them anymore, are easy to stick together, and are easy to label nicely so you know what they are for.
Contributed by Denise Scotford
What ideas do you have?