What do you do with empty thread spools?

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07-20-2009, 06:30 PM

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Pam Lingenfelder

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:D About those medicine bottles: Check with your vet, I live in Chippewa Falls WI, my vet is in Bloomer, and I recycle medicine bottles for her to use for the animal prescriptions. Of course they sterilize them before reusing them. Going GREEN (Bloomer is a rural town in Chippewa County) Good luck, there is a re-use for everything! :roll:

07-21-2009, 07:46 AM

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Boston1954

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Our kittens LOVE batting them around. To a kitten, EVERYTHING is a toy. Give them to a friend who has cats.

07-21-2009, 07:52 AM

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Cathy M

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string them with ribbon and make necklaces for the grandkids.

07-21-2009, 09:30 AM

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Shemjo

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I just gave a big bag of spools to me niece who is into scouting!
I save the pill bottles for my vet also.

07-21-2009, 09:32 AM

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Shemjo

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I just gave a big bag of spools to my niece who is into scouting!
I save the pill bottles for my vet, also.
And I also use an old vitamin bottle for broken and bent needles so no one will get poked with old needles when I finally throw the bottle away.

07-21-2009, 09:41 AM

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Becky Ann

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Love your lamp, very nice.

07-21-2009, 12:51 PM

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lfw045

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I put the spools(one in each)in my socks and pretend I am wearing high heels........oh wait.......that was when I was 3 and4 years old....LOL!

07-21-2009, 01:07 PM

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barnbum

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I give mine to the tech teacher at school for kid creations.

07-21-2009, 01:17 PM

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Pats8e8

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Our college runs a daycare, so we keep all of them from the sewing room and give to them. They build things with them we hear.

01-17-2010, 07:46 AM

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pal

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Sewmom, I love your lamp! And the shade!!! What a great idea.

Re: the empty spools. You could string them and hang them on the outside trees for the holidays. If you glue a piece of fabric on them (where the thread used to be) they'd make very colorful ornaments. Or throw them out.....