You won’t throw out your plastic bottles ever again!
When we take a day trip, we always take a bottle of water with us. It’s good to stay hydrated, so we usually finish the entire bottle. What happens to the bottle once it’s empty? Not much, we’re afraid; we usually throw it in the trash since we know we shouldn’t be refilling it. That’s a bit of a waste, though, because there are tons of fun and handy things you can do with plastic bottles!
Don’t throw out your used plastic bottles next time; see all the amazing things you can do with them:
Home made budget garden sprinkler
All you need to do for this trick is use a nail or a screw to punch some holes in a bottle of water. Do make sure that the side of the bottle that’s placed on the ground doesn’t have any holes in it. Your garden doesn’t benefit from the water leaking into the ground like that. Now, all that’s left to do is attach the garden hose to the mouth of the bottle and that’s it! You’ve got yourself a garden sprinkler!
Separating eggs
Are you always having trouble with separating eggs? Some recipes call for just the yolks of an egg or just the whites, which means you’ll have to separate the two from each other somehow. It can be a pretty messy job, but not when you use a plastic bottle. Break an egg onto a (deep) plate. Take the cap off the plastic bottle and squeeze the bottle a little bit. Then, still squeezing, place the mouth of the bottle onto the egg yolk and stop squeezing the bottle. This will cause the egg yolk to be sucked into the bottle, while the egg white remains behind. It’s so easy!
Wasp trap
Do you want to catch the wasps that are bothering you in your garden in a safe way? Catch them with a plastic bottle! Cut the bottle in half and then fill the bottom half of the bottle with a sweet syrup (like lemonade). Next, place the top half upside down into the bottom half, so the mouth of the bottle is facing downwards. The wasps will flock to the sweet stuff to have a snack, but they won’t be able to find their way out of the bottle again.
Cutting cookies
Did you want to bake a bunch of cookies but did you realise a little too late that you don’t have any cookie cutters? Again, here’s where a plastic bottle comes in very handy. Cut it in half and use one of the halves to cut out the cookies with.
Home made air conditioning
It’s super easy to fashion yourself a home made air conditioning using a plastic bottle. The only thing you need for this is a fan and two bottles of frozen water. A fan is a good thing to own in itself, but unfortunately it does just blow warm air around without actually making the room much cooler, but with this hack you can make that happen! Fill two large bottles with water and put them in the freezer until the water has frozen completely. Then, place the bottles on the floor (or on a table if you have a standing fan) on top of a folded tea towel. Place the fan behind the bottles. This way, the fan will be blowing really cool air, generated by the ice in the bottles, around your home. This will allow the temperature to actually come down.
