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Hope everyone's having a good weekend.
In my family, using things for their intended purpose is looked down on. Wearing my pump in a money belt or dressing it in a baby sock or scratch mitt goes down well. I hate waste too and insulin pumps seem to generate a lot of waste.
Most of us probably find second uses for empty test strip pots, but have you found other creative ways to use non-diabetic items for diabetic uses, or post-diabetic uses for diabetic supplies? I'm not advocating misuse of prescription items, I mean used test strips, etc. Anyone papered the walls with the paper seals from needles or infusion sets?
To start the ball rolling, I have a secondhand jam pot in the shape of a cottage on my kitchen worktop. Hardly worth wearing out the pedal bin mechanism just to put a used test strip in and mini bins are expensive. So I 'post' them into the jam pot through the hole intended for the spoon handle and empty it on dustbin day.
In Canada there's a house built by an undertaker out of empty embalming fluid bottles - anybody beat that? :lol:
In my family, using things for their intended purpose is looked down on. Wearing my pump in a money belt or dressing it in a baby sock or scratch mitt goes down well. I hate waste too and insulin pumps seem to generate a lot of waste.
Most of us probably find second uses for empty test strip pots, but have you found other creative ways to use non-diabetic items for diabetic uses, or post-diabetic uses for diabetic supplies? I'm not advocating misuse of prescription items, I mean used test strips, etc. Anyone papered the walls with the paper seals from needles or infusion sets?
To start the ball rolling, I have a secondhand jam pot in the shape of a cottage on my kitchen worktop. Hardly worth wearing out the pedal bin mechanism just to put a used test strip in and mini bins are expensive. So I 'post' them into the jam pot through the hole intended for the spoon handle and empty it on dustbin day.
In Canada there's a house built by an undertaker out of empty embalming fluid bottles - anybody beat that? :lol: