Repurpose your old shampoo bottles

Don’t just recycle out your old shampoo and conditioner bottles when they’re empty! You can reuse them for all sorts of things:

The household uses for empty shampoo bottles are nearly endless. I use scoopable litter for the cat box, and don’t like having that big cat litter jug beside it. Store clean cat litter in the empties and keep them by the cat box for refills as needed.

The empties can also be put to good use in the tool shed or garage for storing nails, screws, washers, and so on. Some shampoo forumulas come in great tins that look like a thermos and are great for storing small metal spares.

If you like sewing, they are great for keeping buttons and sewing notions sorted and visible.

Use a couple of plastic ones to roll your scarves around and store in drawers–this will keep them from getting wrinkled.

There are a lot more good suggestions over there. I would also add that empty shampoo bottles can be great for toting water around without spilling it – say, from the kitchen to the other room where the houseplants need watered. They’re ideal for mixing up your own body washes and scrubs (in fact, rejected shampoo is perfect for turning into a scrub).

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Posted in Frugal, Going Green, Health and Beauty on July 10, 2008