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<blockquote data-quote="LittleSue" data-source="post: 219238" data-attributes="member: 6295"><p>Hope everyone's having a good weekend.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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 <u>used </u>test strips, etc. Anyone papered the walls with the paper seals from needles or infusion sets?</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>In Canada there's a house built by an undertaker out of empty embalming fluid bottles - anybody beat that? :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleSue, post: 219238, member: 6295"] 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 [u]used [/u]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: [/QUOTE]
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