Fri 20 Apr 2007
We’ve had an email from [Am]:
My partner and I have been wracking our brains trying to find a use for the plastic dental floss packaging. The part that holds the floss and has a little blade at the top.
I’ve looked for company websites to see if they can be returned and used to no avail!
I’ve just popped our pack open to see what the deal is with them - it flipped open really easily but I have forced it in the past during a previous curious moment. Because it flipped open easily and inside is just a spool, I guess you could refill the spool and use it for other things - but aside from cotton, I can’t think of anything else that would work. And I suspect it would be more hassle to refill the spool with cotton rather than just using it of the reel itself.
Has anyone else go any other suggestions for refilling the spool? Or other uses for the packaging?
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Trish
April 20th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
well, IF you can refill it, put some thread in it, and a needle if it will fit, instant sewing kit for your purse, or car.
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rose lynch
April 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am
Could you remove the blade and use it to store spare seeds?
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Nichola
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:26 am
Maybe a bobbin would fit on the little spool, you could wind the cotton onto the bobbin using a sewing machine and like Trish said, add a few needles and you have a sewing kit.
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marco
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
maybe, if you remove the blade you could use it as an ipod headphones case, to stop the wires getting tangled up.
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Jein
May 4th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Perhaps if it is big enough you can use it for gum, lozenges, pills, (if you are brave enough for pills anyhow) small notes of paper or receipts you want to be sure to find…and maybe if all else fails it’d make a nice cat toy? XD Kinda sleepy, maybe I’ll think of something better later. Good luck to all who want to reuse their dental floss packaging.
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jackduan
October 30th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Dear sirs:
I admire your creative ideas to do the useful things.
Mabye,you can draw the character of cartoon on the plastic dental floss packing,You can take it as the children’s toy.
I worked as a manufacturer that specialized in the dental health products,such as dental floss,dental floss pick and onther products.
Now,we have produced the new design credit card dental floss.If you are interested it ,pls let me know.
Regards
Jack
Company:Suzhou Zhenya Technology Co.,Ltd
Add:Zhangqiao Industrial Park,Yuexi Town,Wuzhong District,Suzhou,China
Phone:8613913509883
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sam
November 15th, 2007 at 7:50 am
you could remove the top of it and the guts fill it with a drink and shove a spoon in it it might help to encorage little kids to keep hydrated. miniture ice block makers
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renee
February 9th, 2008 at 9:26 am
lots of them have a cool space age design to them Turn them into toys, brooches or even pendants. you can even melt them into different shapes.
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pamela
April 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
put thread in it, and use for sewing kits…the cutter blade works instead of scissors….also, I am a basket maker, and i make little necklace pouches out of waxed linen thread. I have carried waxed linen thread, which i use for weaving, on airplanes, where they will not allow scissors. I can cut the thread, and weave with my fingers.
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