How can I reuse or recycle babies’ dummies?
We’ve had an email from Gary, saying:
I have found a few leftover babies’ dummies and dummy cases whilst doing some tidying in the kitchen.
Rather than throwing them away I wondered if there was any way to reuse or recycle them.
Good suggestion, Gary. There must be millions of those things lying around in households around the country.
The only thing I can think to do with them is to give them to teenagers who want “ironic” jewellery :) But any other suggestions?
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you might call around to pediatrician’s offices. *IF* they can be sterilized, they might know of a place you can send them.
Send them to a charity shop?
I wonder if there’s a company who sends them to people in developing countries?
Yeah great- just what a developing country needs- dental problems for their youth…
Why would anyone in a developing country want this mother child separating device? Only westerners who are so alienated and filled with shame of anything natural and vulnerable like breastfeeding would think such an invention had any merit. Create an organisation which collects them and make a huge work of art protesting their very existence.
Yes, well, we can’t all breastfeed. Maybe we should just let our children starve…
Goodness, a few very anti-dummy comments here. Current advice in the UK says all babies should be settled to sleep with dummies to prevent SIDS so I guess there will be a whole lot more of them about now! I would probably give them to older children to play with for their dolls, most can be sterilised but I imagine people might feel a bit odd about having a used dummy for their baby.
Wow, I definately had to read this post just to find out what a baby dummy was…here in the states we call them pacifiers.
What about giving some to dog kennels? Quite a few puppies like sucking or chewing on these (my shih-tzu did, even when he was no longer a puppy.)
I wouldn’t recommend giving them to teenagers, as they use them when they do drugs like ecstasy, because it makes you grind your teeth, the pacifier makes your mouth hurt less.
We have a farm nearby that takes unwanted dummies for the piglets that won’t/can’t suckle on there mummy. Great place to go with the kids when you are getting them to give there dummy up. Makes them feel really good about giving them away.
They can be used to punch little halls in a fine soil to plant seeds one inch deep! :)
Crafters working with clay can also make indentations in clay with them.
Those round rubber parts can be used as bulbs or christmas lights in a doll house or as vases, if placed upside down.
Middle part, if it comes off, can be used as a belt buckle.
The ring with plastic can work as tiny towel hanger in a doll house.
Couple of those rings will make nice holders for a doll’s bag.