Fri 7 Mar 2008
I was re-watching Juno the other day and it gave me an “ooh, how could I recycle…” moment.
For those who don’t know, Juno is an interesting and funny film about the titular character’s unplanned pregnancy at 16. While Juno herself is a little too wise-cracking for me, the rest of the characters and performances are great so I wasn’t too upset when it got the Best Original Screenplay last month (I’d have given it to Lars and the Real Girl ahead of Juno but the Academy didn’t put me in control of picking the winners this year, boo).
ANYWAY, the father of the baby in the film, Bleeker, has an obsession with orange TicTacs and at one point, he opens his postbox to find Juno and her best friend have filled it with a hundred boxes of the things as a gesture of Juno’s love for him. Since I’m a bit of a recycling geek, my first thought wasn’t “aww, cute”, it was “once fictional Bleeker has munched his way through those, what could he do with the boxes?”
So any suggestions? If you’re not familiar with the low-cal sweets, the clear plastic box is about 5cm (2.5inches) by 3cm (1.5inches) and about 1cm (0.5inch) thick with a little flip lid at the top.
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Delusion
March 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Good size for keeping small tacks / nails in.
Good to keep in your handbag for if you lose the back of an earring and want to keep the front section safe.
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Mary
March 7th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
How about organizing small craft and sewing supplies–little buttons, glitter, brads, safety pins, etc.
Make a travel sewing kit–needle, threads wrapped around cardboard, several buttons, pins.
Mini first aid kit–bandaids, trial size ointment, wipes
keep loose change in (instead of all over the bottom of your purse or backpack!)
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Teanah
March 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
They’re good for keeping different beads in if you do bead crafting.
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Ben
March 7th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
It’s the perfect container for making a wide range of electronic devices inside of, including LED flashlights.
Rock On, Plactic Containers!
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Lupa
March 7th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Pill boxes! Label each one with a day of the week and put your daily vitamins and other medicines in them.
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sir jorge
March 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Pills would work great.
Or antacid?
Gas-x or something?
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Miriam
March 8th, 2008 at 5:05 am
INSECT COLLECTION!… put insect (one you found dead somewhere)….then pour resin inside….will last forever.
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Vikki
March 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I use them to keep various sewing needles in it as they are perfect size for a portable sewing box. I put styrofoam in the container so that I can stick the needles into it.
I have also used them to contain beads for beading. Could also be used for a portable container to keep jewelry for travel, although I have not used it for this yet.
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Melinda
March 9th, 2008 at 12:11 am
They are good for saving small seeds for those who collect them at the end of the growing season.
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Kris
March 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
My husband uses them in his tackle box for hooks and those little swivel things.
They could be used for safety pins to keep in your purse in case of emergencies!
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tom
March 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
use them to store BB’s or refill them with other sweets
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Kristen
March 12th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Yep, they’re brilliant for storing seed beads and sequins! And because they’re rectangular and slim, you can get lots of them packed into a larger container.
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The Beautiful Kind
March 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
NOOO kidding about the wise-cracking Juno. That movie was annoying. I suppose you could put a 1st trimester fetus in a Tic-Tac box, had the movie gone differently.
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Annie
March 18th, 2008 at 12:03 am
such a lot of great suggestions here im tempted to go out andbuy some tic tacs specially. or am i missing the point? ;-)
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Anonymous
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 am
haha yeah i think so.
maybe just tell all your friends that you are looking for some and to give them to you instead of throwing them away.
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Clara
May 11th, 2008 at 5:58 am
I’m *definitely* going to do that! =)
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Ady
April 29th, 2008 at 12:27 am
As a kid, I used to cover them with scrap paper and use them as Barbie cereal boxes and play with them. Stack a few together, tape ‘em up and cover them, and you have an excellent Barbie endtable as well. :) And to think, I thought my mother was sooo evil for never buying me extra Barbie stuff!
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smith
June 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
A; they were cherry tic tacs
B; they were full boxes of tic tacs in the mail box too.
as for recycling them…there plastic they can be recycled and can be made again into new boxes, bottles etc.
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Billy Bob
July 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
keep a box filled with holy water at the side of your bed just in case Vampires stop by.
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