Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 10, 2024

It’s a well known fact that buying arts and craft supplies and actually using them are two different hobbies!

don’t they use them as earpluggers?

No! No! No!

Henrietta saves them because she never knows when she’ll have blood gushing out of her beak nostrils.

Waste Not … Want Not ;-)

Haha, I save them and use them for cottonballs! I didn’t know anyone else did! Not for crafts though.

I haven’t seen those in pill bottles in years. I buy vitamins and occasional OTC pain pills but I don’t find cotton balls in them anymore.

You’re a Plugger if you remember a wad of cotton being stuffed in a pill bottle. I imagine the practice was stopped toreduce production costs, but still increased the purchase price. Or someone sued becasue they couldn’t get the cotton out, was allergic to cotton balls, or choked on it when they tried to down the whole new bottle.

Pluggers save EVERYTHING to make ‘arts and crafts’. Some day.

Haven’t seen those in years.

Someday you’ll make a large polar bear face.

OMG most pill bottles are sealed tight, have cotton in them and have a plastic thing in them so you CAN’T get anything out!

They make great fire starters.

I save them in the bottles so the pills don’t rattle and powder in my bag. Since they cost about $10 for 50 pounds worth, you need to be a genuine OCD-class hoarder to save them.

I take the balls of cotton out and the pills disintegrate into dust in short order.

I take enough medicine to stuff half of a quilt in a year.

Nope. Those cotton balls are liable to have pill-dust on them. At least you can wash Popsicle sticks.

My hoarding level ends well before cotton balls. Or even pill bottles unless I have something on hand I want to store.

I only see those cotton inserts in bottles of very small pills. I always throw it away, along with the seals.

Let me guess:

She’s making a giant snowflake!

We were keeping the pill bottles, but they don’t come with cotton in them. I now have a good sized collection in different sized bottles, but unless something happens to a bottle, we don’t keep the new ones any longer. Too bad they are not recyclable – at least around here.