good to know

I put them in the container with my allergy needles and take them to the health dept, when it is full they give me a new container

Wow . . . that's amazing. Ever since FAX machines all technology has been magic to me. For this thread to pop up as we write it? Now that's magic.

Don't poke it in your scalp run the pin along your scalp pointy end running along scalp not against it. Also the oils in your hair help it to slide thru the fabric better.

Same here. I keep an empty pill bottle by my sewing machine and discard the bent and dull pins as I find them.

ditto!

I re purpose my dull straight pins in crafts either in Sunday school or just whatever. I make snowmen out of styrofoam balls and my kids stick them together with old straight pins first dipped in hot glue. The ones with the beaded heads (pins, not kids) tee hee, are held together in threes and dipped in hot glue, cooled and then dipped in black paint to make "coal" eyes for snow people. It is fun and my kids love it!

post some of your cool projects, here please so we can recycle our pins

that reminds me we used to make these cool Christmas decorations years ago with my grandma, so I searched and found the free pattern for us


http://www.ehow.com/how_4545974_make...ornaments.html

I also use the pill bottle method. When filled, we have a Sharp's container at schoolI will slip them in.

As far as the cost to dispose of the containers, it is outrageous but a necessary evil.
At the animal shelter, I scheduled the guy to come once a year. At the most, he would have to pick up a box that was 3 cubic feet or about 30"x30"x30". It would be filled with as many full Sharps containers as possible. We were charged over $400 for this one box. Then, you have to turn around and buy more Sharps containers to fill. Yep, it gets expensive.