Favorite REPUROPSED Containers…

"Gatorade squeezy bottle" What is that? Are you talking about the bottle with the twist top to allow drinking from it?

we use Ozarka "eco" water bottles.

0.77 oz for 1L. You can get them in 1.5 L as well, which is useful if need more capacity , saves weight.

The 1L ozarka would score 44

the 1L platypus weighs about the same. 0.8 oz

a 2L platypus weighs 1.26 oz and actually holds 2.5 L, its score would be 67

Those are very light bottles. The major reason I stick with Evian is that they are a thin "eco" bottle with a standard cap. I find it very easy to cross thread the lighter caps usually found on eco bottles.

Evian must work with Sawyer?

I've got a couple bottles with Sawyer compatible threads, but they weigh twice as much.

I've got an "Eco" bottle that weighed less, but then threads weren't Sawyer compatible.

Sawyer uses the same threads as Platypus? I don't have any Sawyer products but I can check a Platypus cap on an Evian bottle when I get home.

"Sawyer uses the same threads as Platypus?"

The diameter of the cap is the same between Platypus and Sawyer, but the thread pitch on some Platypus is different so it doesn't fit very well, maybe you can get it to work or maybe it leaks dirty water into your clean.

Aqua Hydrate brand water bottles, not as light as the normal pet bottles, but they are very good quality, 17oz weighs 30 gm, 33.8 oz weighs 41 gm, but the caps feature an inner lip for a very good seal. These are hard to find, I only know of one healthfood store that carries them in my area, The Food Mill (oakland).

The bottom is round and flat, like a regular water bottle. They have a variety of sizes, I got them all because they are such good bottles.

the 33.8 oz is as narrow as the 17oz, which means you can carry it in a small pocket, it's tall. They also come with good quality sport top drinking tops too. The 20oz is also very narrow.

Slightly worse than these are the trader joes 'electrolyte enhanced water' bottles, heavier too, 51 gram, but also flat bottomed, the cap is not as good. Wholefoods sells the same thing with their generic brand name on it.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with boxes of bottles and repurposed containers.

There's a tiny bottle I found once, it's breath mint candy, it's basically I think a 3ml squirt bottle, like lawson sold, soak for a long time to get rid of the smell. Don't remember the brand, it's ice something, but it's probably cheaper to just buy the new bottles.

I needed a light plastic bowl to fit inside my 3 cup pot so I cut about 1/4" off the rim of a GLAD 'fridge bowl to make it fit. My plastic measuring cup fits inside the bowl.

Absolutely no Ti cook gear for me except my CC Sidewinder 3-fuel stove.

Those little dropper breath fresheners, i.e. SweetBreath. The little dropper unscrews and you can fill the tiny little bottle with soap, hand sanitizer etc.

Delmar – that's the one. Last time I found them was at a Rite Aid.

Thanks for reporting capacities and weights of containers above. Will post an update of the spreadsheet soon.

Regards getting flavors and smells out of containers. I've made a bit of a study of this, and have had decent success. I alternate and repeat the following until the smell/flavor is gone, or I'm tired of trying, whichever comes first:

Soak in water:vinegar solution for a day. Empty, rinse, and…
Soak in water:soda solution for a day. Empty, rinse, and…
Stuff full of damp newspapers (which absorb odors), cap, and set in the sun for a day…
Uncap, dampen, dust with soda, and let sit in the sun for a day…
…repeat as necessary.

One additional trick is to combine salt and lemon juice, and let sit in the container, preferably in the sun. (This combo will actually remove rust from fabrics!)

Obviously, washing with liquid detergent and rinsing always follows these treatments.

If we weren't talking about food containers, I'd be tempted to try stronger measures. But if you're storing victuals in a container, best to use gentle deodorizers.

Thanks Del. i'll stick with my BPA laden Nalgene jars for wet, strong smelling food storage. No odor/flavor problems. For non edibles I'm all over the concept of repacking into manageable amounts.

Since watching an Aquafina bottle roll down a slab and into a rushing creek, I've switched to the square sided Fiji water bottles. They're a bit heavier at 50g, but they hold up well (I've used the same four for the past 3 years) and work great.

Updated. Assuming the Fuji is 20 oz?

Does anyone know how to correct a misspelling in the title? I mangled "repurposed." Editing the original post's subject line changes only that post. The title in the list of threads seems permanent.

I haven't figured out a use for this one yet, but it looks like there should be one

approx 500mL capacity. Cap about 15g, base about 35g. #1 type plastic.

edit: cap is #5 plastic

>"Soak in water:vinegar solution for a day. Empty, rinse, and…
Soak in water:soda solution for a day. Empty, rinse, and…
Stuff full of damp newspapers (which absorb odors), cap, and set in the sun for a day…
Uncap, dampen, dust with soda, and let sit in the sun for a day…
…repeat as necessary. "

My version:

Put in the dishwasher for an hour. With Cascade detergent, just like the dinner dishes.
Repeat as necessary, except it never is.

Really hot water and an alkaline detergent is a powerful combination. But is so easy and boring that it never makes it into "Hints from Heloise".

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Whilst deployed in some god forsaking airbase(Batman)in Turkey during Operation Desert Storm, it was too cold to go outside, so everyone did their business in water bottles at night. One poor soul forgot which one was his drinking water and which one was his pee bottle. Everyone within shouting distance got an earful of expletives after he realized it wasn't that good old spring that just ingested.

I am also a hunter and it is bad mojo to pee anywhere near a deer stand. I have several designated gatorade bottles that I use for this task. They have a big black "P" on the cap and side of the bottle. I use, empty, rinse, dry, and reuse these. I check them occasionally for any signs of becoming brittle and replace as needed. I have started to include them in my cold weather BP gear.

As a little funny, I was washing my bottles after a hunt and my wife noticed the big "P" on the bottles. She asked, "What does that mean?" I replied, "What do you think it means, read it." When she realized what the bottles were for, she about had a fit. That was a long time ago and she has gotten used to them now.

"I am also a hunter and it is bad mojo to pee anywhere near a deer stand."

Why? There have been a few threads about deer (and goats and marmots) being attracted to urine.

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> When she realized what the bottles were for, she about had a fit.

Topper.

I keep a clean gatorade in my vehicle, filled with clean water. "Why a gatorade bottle?" My wife asked. "We have plenty of bottled water." I explained its secondary purpose as a urinal. Now my wife will not even touch the bottle…simply because of its *potential* usage sometime in the future…! Just the thought of pee in the bottle contaminated it.

Ah, yes, my plan is coming together. I started this thread about repurposed (erm, repuropsed) containers in a fiendish plot to actually talk about pee. Exxxxcellent. You can always count on gravity to bring the conversation to the lowest possible level.

Hmm… I don't find the Gatorade bottle opening large enough…

so I use an old Nalgene.. the ones with the larger opening…

Billy

Rocket bottom water bottles
Mayonnaise jars (like peanut butter)
Fage yogurt containers— Microspike cans, etc, etc
Panda Express take out bowls

These are actually reppurposed bottles. Notice the extra "p"