Recycle: cereal boxes - Recycling Database

Use an old beer bottle as a candle holder--the wax dripping over the side will make pretty designs. Keep an eye on it to make sure nothing burns. (Jon)
Fill a clear glass bottle with small candies.
Make a wine bottle into a vase.
Use a larger wine bottle as a bank.

Bottles--Beverage (Plastic)

Fill with water and freeze. They make nice "blue ice" for coolers--especially longer trips. Don't forget to leave room for the expanding water.
Give it to your puppy. It becomes a (noisy) toy! (My Dog)
Make it into a vase. Partially fill it with marbles, stones or something fairly heavy to keep it from tipping. Then paint it to match your decor.
Fill with colored sand and use as a doorstop.
Use to make your own bottled water.
Use large, sports drink bottles as pitchers for juice at home (Glamour Gal).

Bottles--Food

Ketchup, mustard, etc bottles make cheap, short-range squirt guns.
Use old plastic bottles (such as syrup bottles) for storing homemade ice-cream sauce or other homemade food. (Rae)

Bottles--Hair Spray

Use the cap and an index card to trap spiders and let them out of the house.
WASH thoroughly and fill with homemade window/glass cleaner.
WASH thoroughly, fill with water, and use for misting plants.
Fill with soapy water and keep by the area in your house which has been infiltrated by ants. It is messier than traps, but safer than poison.

Bottles--Hand Cream

Refill the smaller sized bottles (the sample/travel size) with hand cream from your house and keep in it your purse or take it with you when you travel.
Fill the smaller sized bottles with aspirin for your purse, book bag, suitcase, etc.

Bottles--Household

Use detergent, fabric softener or shampoo bottles filled with USED motor oil for lubricating drive chains. (Nick)
Fill glass cleaner bottles with soapy water and keep by the area in your house which has been infiltrated by ants. It is messier than traps, but safer than poison.
Cut the top part off of a liquid laundry detergent container. Use the main part as a pooper scooper and the top portion as the pusher. Empty, rinse and reuse. (Barb)

Bottles--Mouthwash

Bottles--Perfume/cologne

Fill with colorful liquids and give to children for playing "store." Be sure that children don't stain their clothes with the color. (Tschuege)

Bottles--Shampoo

Make it into a vase. Partially fill it with marbles, stones or something fairly heavy to keep it from tipping. Then paint it to match your decor.
Remove the cap, cut off the bottom, and use it for a funnel.
Refill the smaller sized bottles (the sample/travel size) with hand cream from your house and keep in it your purse or take it with you when you travel.
Refill the smaller sized bottles (the sample/travel size) with shampoo from your house and keep in it your purse or take it with you when you travel.
Fill the smaller sized bottles with aspirin for your purse, book bag, suitcase, etc.
Fill with sand, rocks, marbles, etc. and use as weights. Different sized bottles can be used to make different sized weights.