Old prescription bottles

Most can be placed with one's recycled garbage. But If you're leery of that, due to confidential information (your name, prescription number or residue of the drug itself) most pharmacies will accept them for disposal.

These are great for storing small items like screws and hardware in the garage, beads and sewing notions in your craft room, old coins, a sewing kit to carry in your purse, extra change in your car, etc.

To maintain your privacy, peel off the labels. They can be pulled off with a little patience: pull up one of the corners of the label, and carefully peel the rest of the label. If some of the adhesive remains, use some sticky tape to lift it off!

If you ever need a bottle to downsize your current prescription bottles, these will do. When I go to Hawaii, I take some of these small brown containers, take them to the beach and put shells in them. Wash and let them dry when you go back to your vacation residence. For traveling home, leave in the container.

Pet rescues will often accept donations of clean prescription bottles if all labels are removed. They use them to send small amounts of medication home with a newly adopted pet.

Turn the larger ones into Christmas Snowmen and fill with Ike & Mikes, Jelly Beans, etc. to give out as Christmas tokens (Office people). Glue the smaller ones together to create Christmas ornaments.