You could donate it to a local youth group that could utilise through perhaps junk modelling (use it dor the main body of a robot). Also it oculd be used as part of a drum kit utilising other items that would normally be recycled or disposed. Charities may use as a receptacle for donations particularily coins. Also useful watering can perhaps.

Hi do you still have this? I am looking for one for a project. Will you sell it to me?

Hi Angie,

Where are you located? I have a few of these lying around. Drop me a line at mfshearer (at) gmail. Thanks!

Mike

homebrew?

These are really hard to get hold of because they are one fo the few things reused as a matter of course

While a little involved, there is a pretty cool project you can do:

Cut a hole in the bottom of the bottle, fill it with soil, make a stand out of wood to hold the bottle upside down and use it as a planter!

Make sure you push the soil firmly into the neck, then put the neck in a bowl / container of water.

The soil will wick the water as needed.

Feel free to make a skirt to hide the bottle if you want - it’ll stop algae from growing where the sun hits as well.

We have ours standing in the hall, every week we put all loose change into it, and at X-mas time donate all the money to charity

This may not be to everyone’s taste…
I cut the top off of mine, removed the seal, and replaced the top upside down in the barrel. Along with a rainwater filled watering can to flush, this became a garden shed based urinal for collecting fertiliser.

School science departments could use them for a number of practicals -eg. greenhouses, gas experiments.etc. Do you have any spare. I am in Surrey.
Peter Haw

I would donate it to a school science class. I had a science teacher who used one to make a pretty neat explosion. She swished a couple of tablespoons of rubbing alcohol around in the bottom, then held a long fireplace match over the mouth and fwoom! It blew out a couple of the ceiling tiles :) (Oh, don’t try this at home, by the way.)

you can turn them into an outdoor fly catcher…

http://insected.arizona.edu/flyrear.htm

Has anyone seen ‘brainiacs’ on TV they used one to make a rocket, using a rubber stopper and a bicycle pump? Fill it part with water put in the stopper and a valve from the pump and pump it up, whoosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Google it!)

Just hit it tucked under your arm as a great drum. I wanted to take some from work but just learnt I can’t! I’m devastated!

Hi there,

I’m trying to get as many empty water cooler bottles as possible for a charity raft race.

If you have a few or lots and lots, I can collect! Please call on 07801 212 958

:) Emily