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Tiny bouquets=instant love. Having fresh cut bouquets around my house is such a small joy for me. Last summer I opted for the wildflower look and was well rewarded with beautiful bouquets well into the fall. This weekend I noticed that the first roses are blooming outside and I couldn’t wait to go out and clip a few. It’s so wonderful to stop and smell the roses inside the house! Since these stems are usually 6 inches or shorter, they won’t survive if I put them in a regular vase. Even a rosebud vase doesn’t work with these because the stems just aren’t long enough. I rummaged around my kitchen for a few minutes before it dawned on me… What about using an empty medicine bottle?
It usually bugs me that my husband leaves empty medicine bottles in the cabinet. Today, however, it brought a smile to my face. The second bottle I touched was an empty bottle of acetaminophen. It was about six inches tall. I peeled the label off in no time.
It held four small blooms and looks gorgeous sitting next to the sink. The roses are absolutely perfect in the small bottle. Putting out a group of assorted bottles filled with blossoms would be so easy! Consider this look for your next bridal shower or luncheon. Give it some color with washi tape if you wish. You could even put a small arrangement on the nightstand of your guest bedroom.
I thought of a few other ways to reuse these empty medicine bottles. They would make a quick disposable container for shampoo, conditioner, or even body wash. Just make sure that the lid is tightly sealed! You could keep an empty medicine bottle full of loose change in your car to take along to yard sales on the weekends. Consider sprouting a few seeds inside a clean, empty medicine bottle for a reusable seed starter. Gently tip out the sprouts when they’re ready to replant. You could try these tips with any small bottle you have around the house, from plastic spice jars to empty salad dressing bottles.
Do you have a great use for empty bottles? I’d love to hear!
Great idea, and you could probably modpodge them with some fun paper if you wanted too!
That would be great! Then you could gift them to someone and not worry about getting the “vase” back.
Oh what a cute idea!!!!!
Thank you Mel 🙂
My mother used to make homemade epson salt soaks and put them in old jars as gifts.
I’d love that! Old jars are another favorite of mine.
I generally use them as mini sewing kits.
Oh, that is a great idea! Will have to remember that.
I will be 100 % honest here because I throw mine out but I like these ideas. I could use that for a sewing kit or a cute little vase.
Don’t feel bad, I used to throw mine out too. At least our recycling crew collected them.
What a brilliant idea! I never would have thought of that! We use them for storing buttons, or for smaller doses of medicine when traveling. I usually buy the BIG OTC medicines from bulk stores, so I save the smaller bottles for when I go on trips, I can take just a small portion, instead of the huge bottle.
I’m terrible about just tossing buttons in a drawer. Putting them in an old bottle is a great idea!
I love to repurpose and this is an awesome way to use those little bottles. Thanks for sharing!
What a great idea for a handy reuse! Your flowers are gorgeous. Makes me frustrated that I can’t keep fresh flowers in the house because the cats always attack them!
Yes, my cats used to eat the fresh flowers too. Now it’s my son I have to watch out for! At least these roses are organic. 🙂
ohh love this idea!
xo,
Sandy
Sandy a la Mode
I love repurposing things!. I use old pill bottles to keep my hair pins and and earrings.
such beautiful flowers and i love the idea!
I love how you recycled the bottle.
Lovely idea! My husband likes to hoard old containers for his nails, gun bullets, etc.
Oh that is an awesome idea!!!
I wish we could grow colorful stuff here in Vegas!! It’s waaaaay too brown here!! 🙂
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One year at Halloween my mom had us all make skeletons out of old milk gallons. That was such a fun and creative re-use project. – Katy
I really don’t reuse empty bottles. I do recycle them. I wish they would dispense pills and such in paper envelopes like they used to. Probably not tamper resistant enough?
Can’t wait for my peonies to be ready to bring inside. They always fill my house with the smells of spring.