Coffee Cache

You can build up quite the collection of coffee containers, particularly if several people in your household are big coffee drinkers. Although I don’t drink anywhere near the coffee I used to while in the Navy, I still go through my share. What do you do with those empty containers? I’ll be adding to the list as time goes on, but for now, here are five ideas.

1. Coin storage. Whenever I come home with change in my pockets, I just toss it into a coffee container. While I haven’t taken my coins to a Coinstar yet, I think if I did, this would be a handy way to carry them; it’s a little heavy, but it works.

2. Kids’ storage. You can store anything from Legos to art supplies in these free containers. The slid snaps on and off for easy access. And if the kids break them, it’s really no big deal.

3. Water Plants. I like to use distilled water on my plants, so I’ll fill the coffee container up the night before I want to water. When I wake up the next morning, the water is ready to go in an easy-to-handle container.

4. Planters. I haven’t actually used a coffee container as a planter, but I don’t see why you couldn’t. I have some small coffee plants to transfer to new pots this weekend and I’m going to try putting one in a coffee container. Besides, I like the idea of growing coffee in a coffee container.

5. Nuts and Bolts. You may not want to fill a gallon coffee container with nuts and bolts, but theb smaller sizes work well for this.

Do you use your empty containers for something besides what I have listed? Let me know and I’ll add it to the list!