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(Vanity Question) What do you do with your empty prescription bottles?
11/10/10 | Me

Posted on 11/10/2010 6:26:50 PM PST by RangerM

I just finished a round of antibiotics, and now I have an empty prescription bottle.

I was about to throw it in the trash, but then realized this bottle has my name, address, doctors name, the medication, a prescription number, and several other pieces of information (along with various barcodes) that I'm not sure could be useful to an identity thief or not.

Am I being paranoid, or is there a legitimate concern here?


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To: umgud

I’ll be 73 soon and hubby will be 77. Neither one of us take any drugs and we intend to keep it that way. We are far healthier than all our friends.


41 posted on 11/10/2010 7:00:06 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

That’s what I do...


42 posted on 11/10/2010 7:02:04 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: PistolPaknMama

Careful about admitting you own a box cutter. TSA and BATFE are watching.


43 posted on 11/10/2010 7:02:28 PM PST by satan (Plumbing new depths of worthlessness on a daily basis.)
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To: RangerM

After reading all the replies that say you should reuse it for this or that, why are the dimocrats the ones who “want to save the planet”? It’s obvious that any conservative would try to reuse something, in fact, the sentence is kind of redundant; I’m conservative, therefore I conserve things.

Truly we live in a backwards time, bad is good, good is nerdy, conservatives are the ones trying to destroy the planet.


44 posted on 11/10/2010 7:03:17 PM PST by ConservativeChris
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To: RangerM

Just put the file flat on a bench and keep scraping the bottle across it.

45 posted on 11/10/2010 7:04:06 PM PST by TChad
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To: RangerM

Put it in an old sock and smash it to bits with a hammer. Problem solved.


46 posted on 11/10/2010 7:06:09 PM PST by ExtremeUnction
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To: Domestic Church

Yeah, great idea.

I use them when I travel for vitamins. I don’t like taking the whole bottles, but they are small enough to put separate vitamins in each bottle.

I also liked the seed idea. And the Q-tip one too!!!


47 posted on 11/10/2010 7:06:33 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: RangerM

“What do you do with your empty prescription bottles?”

If it’s REALLY good stuff, I lick the bottle clean.


48 posted on 11/10/2010 7:09:06 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: satan
Peel off the labels, burn them in the fireplace and use the bottles to build furniture like that guy does with FedEx Boxes.

OR, stack the bottles one on top of the other until you reach Outer Space.

49 posted on 11/10/2010 7:09:29 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: RangerM

I put my weed in it.


50 posted on 11/10/2010 7:10:42 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (I'd rather take my chances with someone misusing freedom than someone misusing power.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Good on you.


51 posted on 11/10/2010 7:11:58 PM PST by umgud
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To: RangerM

I always strip the labels before throwing the bottle away. Our pharmacy uses a system that is actually pretty easy to remove completely, and I do that regularly.

I keep some of the bottles, depending on the size, for small parts and doo-dads...


52 posted on 11/10/2010 7:12:11 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!!)
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To: Domestic Church

That’s a great idea! I need a container for my knitting stitch markers, too. I keep misplacing them.

I still have bottles from several years ago. Can’t seem to throw them away. :)


53 posted on 11/10/2010 7:15:41 PM PST by Marie Antoinette (Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
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To: RangerM

bump


54 posted on 11/10/2010 7:16:08 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: satan
Careful about admitting you own a box cutter.

I have six or so actually. Only a couple of them are sharp. But all will cut the tape around a prescription lable. :)

55 posted on 11/10/2010 7:16:51 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: RangerM

A bench grinder with a wire wheel will make fast work of that label


56 posted on 11/10/2010 7:17:07 PM PST by FrankR (Don't let the bastards wear you down!)
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To: RangerM

I fill them with aspirin, relabel them oxycontin and sell them to liberals.


57 posted on 11/10/2010 7:17:23 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: lefty-lie-spy

>> Put a stamp on it and mail it to the IRS.

LOL


58 posted on 11/10/2010 7:18:08 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: RangerM

My dad uses his for fishing tackle containers in his tackle box.


59 posted on 11/10/2010 7:19:05 PM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: RangerM

Don’t have any for myself, but for my dad when he was alive; I pulled the labels off and either threw them out or recycled them for my own uses. They are great, depending on size, containers for a multitude of things.


60 posted on 11/10/2010 7:19:46 PM PST by AFreeBird
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