Tips for reusing those plastic containers that tic tac breath mints come in.
Other Small Candy:
Refill them with cinnamon hearts or other small candies that will fit; much cheaper than buying new containers. Bags of candies can fill a heap of these containers!
By Syd Barr
Travel Containers:
Make travel size containers for these items:
- Bobby pins, hair pins and hair clips.
- Travel case for aspirin, Tylenol, etc. (Be sure to label the container).
- Tooth picks.
- Small sewing kit
By Syd Barr
Cocoa Powder:
Back in grade school I used to put cocoa powder in an empty tic tac box for my plain milk. This was before they brought us chocolate milk in the carton!
By melody_yesterday
Sewing Kit:
You could use one to make a little homemade sewing kit. Use a wooden match stick to wrap several colors of thread.
By melody_yesterday
Medication:
Keep your medication in one. It could be handy if you have more than one persons meds to deal with.
By melody_yesterday
Diving Blocks:
Fill them with little rocks and wrap them in electrical tape. These can then be used for diving blocks at the swimming pool.
By Anna
Carrying Your Sweetener:
For anyone who uses a sugar substitute like Splenda or Sweet and Low, putting some in one of these containers is handy when you are somewhere that doesn't have any sugar substitute available.
By maggiemay
Seashells and Pebbles:
I have always found a need for storing small seashells and pretty little pebbles. If you are a collector of these items they make great storage solutions.
By Gloria
Small Snowglobe:
You could fill them up with water, food coloring, a little veggie oil, glitter and a small toy for little snow globe.
By Gloria
Tree Decorations:
You can wrap them like presents for Christmas tree decorations.
By Gloria
Travel Containers:
You can fill them with shampoo and soap for traveling
By Gloria
Salt and Pepper:
They work for salt and pepper for picnics.
By Gloria
Seeds:
Save seeds in them from the garden.
By Gloria
Small Scrapbooking Supplies:
Try using these for brads, eyelets, small buttons, etc for scrapbooking. Nice because if you are going to a crop, you can take just the embellishments you need. - I don't even like tic tacs, but I buy them just so I can have the containers! Maybe someday I will find a place I can buy just the containers. :)
By Amber
Toy "Radios:"
My brother and I used to use leftover tic-tac containers by wrapping them up in electrical tape and we would open the flap and pretend we were cops and they were our "radios."
I will always remember that!
By Madison
Holding Small Items:
You can use them to hold seed, beads, and little parts that might otherwise get lost 'in the shuffle.' A tiny slip of paper tucked in can list what the 'somethings' are so you won't forget.
In some WalMart Supercenter's craft section you can buy the Tic-Tac containers in packs of eight.
By gator
For Your Workshop:
Save Tic Tac and other breath mint containers and use them to store small items in the shop. Tic Tac containers are especially handy because they are clear so you can see what's inside them.
By Fisher
Feel free to post your ideas below.
Answers:
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
I love...just love this website. There are so many SMART people out there! Thank you. (07/10/2006)
By Sharon
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
When I was little I used to keep a tic-tac container or two full of tap water every night on the shelf at the head of my bunk-bed so I wouldn't have to climb down half-asleep if I were thirsty in the middle of the night. :) (07/10/2006)
By Paul Ziegenfuss
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
These are good ideas. However, in our state, if you are in a vehicle carrying prescription drugs in containers other than the original bottle, you can be arrested for transporting drugs. Possibly, acetaminophen or ibuprofen could be carried in pocket or purse using tic-tac containers. (07/11/2006)
By c. nelson
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
Here are a few more reuses for those Tic Tac containers.
1- Use in fishing tackle box for different size split shot sinkers or small plastic minnows
2- How about a BB or pellet ammunition box
3- Collect water for testing
4- Use to store small shirt buttons
5- The world's smallest ant farm, or to display small dead insects
6- A noise maker or rattle
7- Have a lot of them and make a building block set, either decorate, paint, or glue letters and numbers on all the sides
8- Filling them with different colored sands of fish bowl gravel for display or small sand art works
9- To store your children's baby teeth or lock of hair
10- A place to create and research food molds or possibly a fungus.
Tic-Tac anyone? (07/11/2006)
By Michael Ruger
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
What about storing small sewing supplies? As a seamstress with my own business, I find a lot of things that need to be stored together: sewing machine needles, buttons, fasteners of all sorts, snaps, hook and eye, ribbons, for carrying a measuring tape, pins, or swatches in your bag,
And LOL at Mr Thrifty and his fungus comment! (07/11/2006)
By Sara C
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
Spices for camping. (08/26/2006)
By Anne Mary Fellin
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
Use it as a mini sea monkey aquarium. =D (03/13/2007)
By nick
Uses for Empty Tic Tac Containers
You could use it for an iPod shuffle. (02/19/2008)
By Maxwell
