How can I reuse or recycle TicTac boxes?
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.
(Photo by bruno-free)
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.
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!)
Genius. Replace plastic in sponge curlers with fabric strips. No dents and more comfy to sleep in.
They’re good for keeping different beads in if you do bead crafting.
It’s the perfect container for making a wide range of electronic devices inside of, including LED flashlights.
Rock On, Plactic Containers!
Cool idea. Can I get instructions so I can do thi with my cubscout den?
check here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Tic-Tac-flashlight/
Pill boxes! Label each one with a day of the week and put your daily vitamins and other medicines in them.
Pills would work great.
Or antacid?
Gas-x or something?
INSECT COLLECTION!… put insect (one you found dead somewhere)….then pour resin inside….will last forever.
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.
They are good for saving small seeds for those who collect them at the end of the growing season.
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!
use them to store BB’s or refill them with other sweets
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.
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.
I don’t remember her wise cracking, but then I read the book, when I was in HS. it was a good book.
maybe as a teen I liked wise cracks, or maybe they made her that way for the movie.
Juno wasn’t based on a book.
such a lot of great suggestions here im tempted to go out andbuy some tic tacs specially. or am i missing the point? ;-)
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.
I’m *definitely* going to do that! =)
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!
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.
They were definately orange
Kayy like the facts of the movie are not important. They want to know ways to re-use them themself
keep a box filled with holy water at the side of your bed just in case Vampires stop by.
wow. srsly?
LOL times a million! Total vampire geek. }:D
Without trying to steal someone else’s brilliant artistic thunder … but her little matchbook project is awesome, and these tic tac containers would make great ones, too, for a similar project.
http://www.blurty.com/users/matchboxproject
how can i make something out of one tic tac box
Well i allways wash it out and and wrap up some head phones and shuv them in thair. or drill a hole in the side and get a good pair of head phoens and stick the jack through the hole and coyal the head phones in
the HPs in the box and hot glue the jack in the hole and wa la plug in your ipod and or mp3 and crank up the tuns (ithink i spelled tha wrong)
I found 2 in our recycling bin. I retrieved them, washed them out and dried them. I now use them as salt and pepper shakers in my lunchbox. I was so set against buying salt and pepper in disposable / single-use sachets that I went without salt and pepper for quite a length of time. Now I have two neat-o shakers and they look stylish as anything.
You could put ur beer in it.
Hey,good question :P
But any-way,for my little sister’s Girl Scout Project called,
‘Trashy Art,” We came up with the idea of get a flashlight,drilling a two holes,(One for the button to the flashlight,the other for a keychain).
We put a tiny little flashlight and stood it up against the drilled hole,so you could actually press the button,and when you opened the lid,
Light!
xP
We put a keychain on it and decorated it with Sharpie and Glitter,
and for a Girl Scout Project,we blew toilet-paper pencil holders
OUT OF THE WATER !! :D
Hope this helped? :)
I use empty tic tac boxes to store picture hanging hooks/screws/nails. They’re also great for safety pins, dressmaker pins, buttons, and all kinds of small hardware because they’re see-through.
When I was little, I pretended they were my Barbie’s fish tank and taped small aquarium pictures from magazines on it.
Try making little robots out of them!
i think that making robots out of them is an awsome idea, but some guy has made a Tic Tac Tunes out of it.
go to indestructables and have a look,
IMENSE!!!!
I think they’re perfect for holding bobby pins in your purse, but you can get crafty with them. Like Bleeker, I have an obsession with orange tic tacs, and that is my favorite movie!! :D So I have like a zillion empty boxes I’ve collected and am making a pyramid of them :o
I put tacks, pins, safety pins, and other little things in them. Also glue beads, gems, and sequence to the outside for some flair.
I always use them to hold spare parts to anything. I have like 500 containers and they’re all filled
Hi!
I’d like to use them to store and organize my beads… They are clear and rectangular, so they are ideal for this purpose!
i put all my silver necklaces in for holidays
I sort out small beads for my art projects, but you can also place safety/straight/needles in them as well. Those little containers have a million uses.
I write down ideas for stories or lyrics for songs on sticky-notes, fold them up, and drop them inside.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE!!!LOL ;)
Could be perfect for a little emergency kit. A few Q-Tips, cut in half, a little picture of the family, a piece of tin foil could be used as a signal, little substantial snacks, like a broken up health bar, and a few of those mini plastic baggies filled up with water and shut tight. You could also include a few band aids, and some way of catching food. If you want, you could include a match or two in a mini baggie, with the lighting strip in a separate baggie.
Bobby pins!
You can make a first-aid kit – put in one condom and carry in a handbag. Make one kit for each handbag you have.
I use it to store loose gems, broken gold jewerly and 1 oz Johnson Matthey silver and gold bars…Great for them! You can store 5 or 8 of these bars!
use them to store buttons bobby pins tictacs ha earings hope thats helpful
mini bandages
nials tooth picks tacks
a cereal box for your american girl dolls and put little pieces of crumbled up construction paper.
if your going on vacation put your pills in it or if you might need ibu profen
put candy in it for the movies
I have really bad epilepsy and after some seizures I have no memories or temporary amnesia which normally lasts for about a week so I use themenu to make memory boxes – I have some with wallet sized pictures of my friends and family with their name and a description of them on the back. I also put thingso in that represent something in my life eg a guitar pick, miniature flag, bullet and a poppy badge and a chain with a minion on it. It is also really handy if you have little kids when you go to a beach just fill it with small seashells and stones and sand and write the date on the side or bottom of the container :)