Fun Facts: Interesting Uses for Bottles

Make a foot warmer! Fill up a 1- or 2- liter soda bottle with hot water, then sit down and roll it back ande forth under your feet.

Use as a dog toy! A no-cost way to amuse your dog is to let her chew on an empty plastic 1-liter soda bottle. Dogs love the crunchy sound they make. Just be sure to remove the label and bottle cap (as well as the loose plastic ring under it). Replace it before it gets too chewed up -- broken pieces of plastic are choke hazards.

Make a plastic bag dispenser! An empty 2-liter soda bottle makes the perfect container for storing and dispensing plastic grocery bags. Just cut off the bottom and top ends of the bottle, and mount it with screws upside down inside a kitchen cabinet or closet. Put washers under the screw heads to keep them from pulling through the plastic. Fill it with your recycled bags (squeeze the air out of them first).

Place in toilet tank! Unless your house was built relatively recently, chances are you have an older toilet that uses a lot of water each flush. To save a bit of money on your water bills, fill an empty 1-liter soda bottle with water (remove any labels first) and put it in the toilet tank to cut the amount of water in each flush.

Store your sugar! The next time you bring home a 5-pound (2.2-kilogram) bag of sugar from the supermarket, try pouring it into a clean, dry 1-gallon (3.7-liter) jug with a handle. The sugar is less likely to harden, and the handle makes it much easier to pour it out.

“Extraordinary Uses For Ordinary Things” from The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.