I've been on birth control for years. As anyone on it (or with someone on it) knows, it comes in these rounded plastic clamshells of varying shapes and sizes. Each month, when I open up a new pack and throw the old one away, I feel a guilty, global-warming pang in my stomach. It seems like such a waste. I've tossed out approximately 120 birth control containers in my life, and each time, as they lay there in the trash, so sturdy and undamaged, I'm sure that there must be something else they can be used for. They have a latch and a hinge, for chrissakes.
So, dear reader, what do you do with your empty birth control containers? What could you do if you had the time and inclination to store up six months worth? My shrink says I need to take it easy, relax, take time for myself, and doing something crafty with birth control containers sounds like just what the doctor ordered.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Who's Crafty?
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Could u ask your pharmacist to just give you the pills and not the container? I don't know why they would care either way. And with your clam shell collection, I propose the beginning of a new frame for your
"boxed" art work.... hot glue....its key.
well, i am glad, my ecologically sound daughter, to see you wrestling with this. last week i called my pharmacy to see what i could do with my empty small cylindrical amber colored pill containers. i have 3 a month to dispose of. also sturdy little mothers. no. "we don't accept them for recycling." but i like darcy's idea. maybe i'll show up to reorder with the empties and demand they fill them.
and, although less environmentally threatening, i throw away disposable contact lenses every 6 weeks. regrettably. i have always pictured a pretty art project of some kind with tiny pale blue little cuplets.
i'll start saving them for you.
You should do a search on Craftster. Here's one thread about this very topic (there were more threads, but I didn't read through them all)
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=1449.0
Also, here's a potential project for your 1950s slides:
http://readymademag.com/printarchive/index.pl?id=509
I've been meaning for years to do it with my own slide collection.
You are sounding like your grandmother Betsy. I remember her bottom drawer next to her bed, in Milton being filled with Leggs Eggs . (haven't worn stockings for years do leggs eggs still exist?) She also collected roll on deodorant balls! Her sister Gwen was a kindergarten teacher and I believe she saved them for her but highly doubt they ever made it to Gwen.....
BTW, Alicia your Mom may still have the same bed side table/drawer thing I am remembering, how cool is that!
As far as craft projects go Mir, - those things leave my imagination short - but darcy is right glue guns work wonders!
Oh I must go check out those craft links...
Miranda:
The obvious is one of your presentation boxes with Venus on a Clamshell: http://www.nwlink.com/~pkrogh/venus.html
Check out the website for inspiration. There's an awsome mural at Venice Beach and there's a Barbie version that may be inspiring!
Di
Oh, Sally, I remember discovering the drawers filled with empty roll-on deodorant containers in Nana's bathroom when searching for tampax!!! What a memory...
Mir, here's an overachieving idea: print out the GTDs on slips of paper, put them individually inside each empty birth control pill container, display them with a Banana Republic dressed mannequin holding them all in an open MacBook Pro box and then add some signage that decries the affluenzen (is that a proper derivation?) American lifestyle and large letters that read "TAKE ONE" and call it public installation art. Invite Starbucks to sell coffee. Give Christo and Jeanne-Claude a run for their money...
If that's too complex, then I vote for Di's "Birth of Barbie/Venus". Easily marketable... : )
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