Recycling Series: 20 Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

None of us like getting sick, but it’s a part of being human that we will, multiple times in our lives. Some of us have chronic conditions that require medication for long periods. So you know what that means? Yes, it does means that you should take good care of  yourself, but it also means that you will end up with loads of empty medicine bottles!

Okay, I’m sure you’re wondering about the safety aspect of using medication bottles for any purpose than storing medicine. If you clean the bottle well enough and don’t store food items in it, it’s fine. A couple of things though. Firstly, get rid of any leftover or expired medicine the right way – do not flush it or pour it down the drain. Secondly, be sure to remove the label completely. There should be no mention of the medicine’s name, dosage or any of your medical details on the bottle.

Once you’ve done all this, you’re good to go! Your medicine bottles are now ready to be reused around the home. If you’re wondering how something so small can be useful in any way, be ready to be surprised! This list of 20 brilliant ways to reuse medicine bottles will have you delighted and you’ll find that some idea in this list solves a problem that has bothering you for long!

20 Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

1. Piping Tips Organizer

If you’re an avid baker, you’re sure to have lots of baking supplies, and organizing them in a regular kitchen can be a challenge. Medicine bottles are the perfect size to organize those piping nozzles, and you can go ahead and decorate them like The Bear Foot Baker has done.

2. Bobby Pins Storage

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

If you’re like me and keep losing your bobby pins no matter how many you buy, use this tip from I Heart Organizing to keep them contained in one place. This is great to drop into your bag so you’re always ready to tackle the odd flyaway or rogue strand of hair. By the way, love the decoration done on this one!

3. Pincushion

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Not all of us are sewing afficionados, but we do need to have at least a small sewing kit to handle emergencies. Tuscan Rose shows u that a medicine bottle is perfect to hold essential threads. What’s more, the top of the pill bottle can double up as a pin cushion with a little bit of extra work.

4. Battery Organizer

If you have a child, you quite likely have a few (or many) battery operated toys, in which case you are stocking up on batteries of different sizes. In any case, you need batteries for your remotes and clocks, so it makes sense to keep them organized in medicine bottles like they’ve done at Life Hacker. Stick the lids to a surface so you can save on counter space.

5. Mini First Aid Kit

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

A mini first aid kit is an important thing to always have with you, especially if you have young children. And if you thought you had to lug around a huge box for it, One Good Thing proves you don’t! A medicine bottle is enough for the basics like band aid, paracetamol and maybe a few cough drops.

6. Magnetic Makeup Organizer

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

I absolutely love this space saving idea from Laura Thoughts to keep all your makeup essentials sorted and easily accessible. This hack makes use of vertical space which means your drawers and table tops are clutter-free. The medicine bottles work perfectly to hold brushes or smaller items like kajal sticks. Stick a magnet on them and you’re done!

7. Purse Organizer

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Are you constantly digging in your handbag to find a safety pin or that elusive chapstick? Not anymore, thanks to this tip from Crafts by Amanda! Just gather a few medicine bottles, wrap them up in pretty paper and you have built in organizers that can safely store your tiny items without getting squished.

8. Stationery Organizer

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Yes, tin cans and cardboard tubes make excellent stationery organizers, but small medicine bottles also work just as well! Apartment Therapy shows us that you can use differently-sized medicine bottles for different items, like big ones for pencils and smaller ones for paper clips or push pins.

9. Small Jewelry Storage

Tired of your necklaces and bracelets getting tangled with each other? Why bother, when medicine bottles can store them safely for you? As DIY Inspired shows, this is a great idea for travelling – you can even keep one medicine bottle with the accessories for each outfit separate. Genius!

10. Earphones Holder

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Earphones are the thing that get lost the most in a handbag – and the most annoying to find too! You need them easily accessible as well as easy to put away so a medicine bottle makes the most sense since you can just stuff the earphones in, put on the cap and you’re done! Check out how to make this patterned holder at One Good Thing.

11. Button Organization

If you’re drowning in your button stash and can’t find the color you want for a project, you must try medicine bottles for storing them. Choose medicine bottles of the same size and store them all in a cute basket, as shown in Consumer Crafts. If the bottles are see-through, that’s an added bonus; if not, you can label the bottles.

12. Mini Planters

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Thought you needed a large, heavy pot to grow something green? Not at all, as Apartment Therapy proves! Even the tiniest pill bottle can house a little shoot, and they make excellent seed starters along with some cotton wool. Use a collection of medicine bottle plants for the cutest vignette ever.

13. Bead Storage

Medicine bottles aren’t just great for organizing buttons, they also work perfectly for beads, sequins and other tiny craft items. Using uniform bottles make the entire arrangement easy to store and it also looks neater. Store the bottles in a basket or a shoe box as done in Condo Blues.

14. Screws and Nails Storage

Even if you’re not exactly the Handy Manny type, you’re sure to have a few basic screws and nails on hand. While larger tools don’t pose a storage problem, the screws and things are another story! Keep the mess under control and easy to find with this hack from Instructables.

15. Flosser Holder

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

You want to keep your flossers separate from everything else since they can be delicate, and you also want them to stay clean because – it goes into your mouth! One Good Thing proves that a medicine bottle is the best storage solution for these, and this also works well for toothpicks, especially if you want to keep a few in your bag at all times.

16. Small Toy Organizer

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Kids can be weird; they can pick up what appears to us as trash and treat it like the most precious thing ever. Well, that’s childhood, and we don’t want to mess with their innocent play. So let’s help them keep their little treasures safe and sound (and away from hurting our feet) by storing them in medicine bottles, like they’ve done over at the Parent Club.

17. Seed Storage

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

Love gardening? In that case you’re bound to have a selection of seeds you’re saving for the right season to plant. Now, it can be hard to tell seeds apart simply by looking at them, so it helps to have a system to organize and label them. Check out how they’ve done it at My Life Abundant, using medicine bottles and tic tac boxes with sticky labels on them.

18. Desk Organizer

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

This organizer from Black Hole Art Studio is probably the cutest organizer you can find! Love the way they’ve dressed up each bottle individually and also embellished the overall arrangement with faux flowers. This can actually hold a fair bit of stuff, and if you place it on a sturdy board, it can last for a long time too!

19. Hair Accessories Storage

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

After bobby pins, it’s probably those thin hair ties that get lost the most. What is it with hair accessories and running away? Anyway, thanks to DIY Inspired, we now have an easy solution for this – medicine bottles! A medicine bottle can hold quite a few hair ties and barrettes, so you can organize by type or by color.

20. Spare Change Holder

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

If you travel by public transport or have small kids who constantly need change for that chocolate or that sticker, try out this hack from Popsugar – store your spare change in a medicine bottle! Whenever you find some change, put it in this bottle. You’ll be surprised at how fast little bits add up to a significant amount!

Throwing away your used medicine bottles? Stop! Once you clean them, you can utilize the ideas in this list of Brilliant Ways to Reuse Medicine Bottles.

You can check out other posts in the Recycling Series here.

This post is a part of the Blogchatter Half Marathon.

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