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Re-using Test Strip Pots

Only just started re-using them - excellent as you say for used lancets and pump needle primers. I also decant shampoo, conditioner, exfoliater etc when to them for going away weekends/holidays - I just label the pots with a marker pen. Very handy little containers and as you've said they snap tight too.
 
One touch pots are quite small in diameter, can't see I could put much in them.
 
I've started collecting rain in them. If we do vote for Independence up here in Scotland I am going to trade them with drought stricken English counties for proppa saveloys :)
 
Scardoc said:
I've started collecting rain in them. If we do vote for Independence up here in Scotland I am going to trade them with drought stricken English counties for proppa saveloys :)
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Drought-stricken English counties? :shock: :shock: :shock:

I think what we've just had is on its way to you - :lol: :lol: :lol: :D

Viv 8)
 
Handy for taking urine samples to hospital appointments. :angel:
 
My hobby is Geocaching and I use the empty pots when I want to hide a micro sized pot as they are waterproof and keep the paper log sheet dry. If anybody has a large amount they wish to dispose of I will be happy to pay the p&p for you to send them to me.
 
Failing all else, they're great on top of garden canes, now we don't have 35mm film pots any more, to stop you blinding yourself when you bend down between the plants, weeding.
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I'm still clinging on by the tips of my fingernails to my 35mm camera so I do get film pots! When camping I used to use one for salt and one for pepper by punching a small hole in the lid. I use my empty pots to put the used strips in so don't have a stash to reuse but if I didn't have my film pots I would keep buttons in them. I have an old typewriter reel pot (crikey that shows ,my age!) that I keep all my spare buttons in when I buy something new. I love some of the ideas coming through though - just goes to show how inventive we can be. :thumbup:
 
I tend to transfer the strips from one pot to the other and then use one for used strips.. my other half uses them to store bits and bobs for doing craft with our little one.
 
I have been saving mine for a long time, as I give a craft course for careres we though of decorating them with material and beads, some were made into cat toy with dried beans inside so cats can play with them, other ones we put a hole in the top for knitters who do intarsia (different colours of wool on a design) and for putting your old used lancer in, these we sold at the craft fair and the money went to the hospice. Now thinking of different ideas.
 
Paul1976 said:
I actually keep emulsion paint in mine after decorating so if I've got any child damage to touch up later on,I don't have to get the big pot of out of the garage and i then only need an artists paint brush! A very boring but handy tip
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Not boring at all! I think it's a great idea. :clap:
 
DickM said:
My hobby is Geocaching and I use the empty pots when I want to hide a micro sized pot as they are waterproof and keep the paper log sheet dry. If anybody has a large amount they wish to dispose of I will be happy to pay the p&p for you to send them to me.
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I am also a geocacher and although I have yet to use one as a cache container I have seen a few out in the field :D
 
Not a great hider of Micros but have used these a couple of times with great success. Much better than film tubs.
Richard (aka drdick&vick on GC.com and GAGB)
 
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