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Make Christmas Ornaments
With
the holiday season right around the corner, you might as well get
festive with your empties. Small shot sized bottles make great
Christmas ornaments if you decorate them properly. Beer cans can also
be cut and folded into stars, sleighs, or almost any holiday-themed
design you desire. All you need is some hot glue, a sharp pair of
scissors and some basic arts and crafts supplies. Not only will this
liven up your home, but its a fun way to kill an evening with your
friends and six pack of brew.
Shank Somebody
Next
time you get involved in a riotous bar fight with someone bigger and
stronger than you, remember that beer bottles can be your best friend.
Simply grab an empty by the neck and smash the end of it against the
bar. Suddenly you are holding a sharp, jagged, painful looking tool
that makes the average pocket knife look like a q-tip. Not only will
your make-shift shank serve to protect you from your adversary, but
you'll look damn cool smashing it against the bar and thrusting at your
target.
Use Them For Target Practice
Clay
pigeons are so expensive, and with the economy the way it is, who can
afford to spend money on something you're just going to blast into
pieces anyway? Instead of giving the sporting good store all your money
for targets, simply grab a garbage bag full of empty cans and bottles
and go to town. The best idea is to line them up at a distance, at
varying heights and locations and try to take them out as fast as
possible. Get creative by hanging them from trees, concealing half of
them behind rocks, etc. Not only is this a fun way to get rid of your
empties, you'll improve your shot considerably with practice.
Play Guitar With Them
In
some genres of music, guitar players use glass slides to get warm
bluesy tones out of the strings. Oddly enough, a glass beer bottle
accomplishes this same goal. When performers gulp down a bottle, put
the empty to the strings and wail away, the crowd always loves it and
it makes them look like true aficionados of their instrument. Practice
this technique at home before breaking it out on stage, as everyone
sounds terrible doing it at first. After a while though, it'll become
an entertaining addition to your live repertoire.
Collect Them For Money
Most
people don't think about this, but every bottle and can you throw away
is five cents you could be putting into your pocket. This might not
seem like a lot right now, but over a four year college stay at a frat
house that could be thousands of dollars in thrown away money. Some
people even make a small income off collecting bottles and cans from
around the neighborhood. This might not do wonders for your social
image, but if such things don't matter much to you, the streets are
lined with money for the taking.
Smash Them Over Your Head
Sometimes
all that's needed to have a good time with your empties is a thick
skull and something to prove to your friends. If this sounds like you,
you might try picking some up and smashing them over your head. If you
can successfully do this without reeling in pain, it'll make you look
like a serious hard-ass. Having such a skill is no waste of time either
- the next time some scrawny punk starts hitting on your girl in the
bar you can just walk up with a deranged look in your eye and smash a
bottle over your head while screaming and snarling at him. He'll run
for the hills for sure.
Make a Chandelier
Who
said Chandeliers had to be made of crystal? If you're not a super high
roller but need a cool light fixture to spruce up your home or bar, why
not work with what you've got? Insert the light-bulbs down into the
bottle and arrange them on a wire or metal frame such that they
resemble an organized piece. Try using a wide variety of colored
glasses so that the light cast from the fixture is multidimensional.
Build a Sweet New Ride
In
case you have such an absurd amount of cans that you've tried
everything on this list so far and still have a pile left over, you
might try sculpting a car such as the one pictured above. Always wanted
a Lamborghini but never had the money? Try crushing all your old beer
cans up and arranging them into the body of an '08 Gallardo! You might
not be able to drive it, but it will make a great lawn ornament and
conversation piece for years to come.
Play Baseball With Them
Looking
for a fun and original game to play with your buddies the morning after
a big party? Try this out: Build a stand about waist high and place a
can on it. Now grab a baseball bat and crack it as hard as you can. Now
go stand by your can and challenge a friend to beat your distance. You
can even come up with crazy stipulations, like the loser has to buy the
beer for the next party.
Grow Something in Them
Flower
pots are over rated. Instead, why not try growing some pretty flowers
out of your empty Bud cans or Miller Light bottles? Begin by filling
the bottle three quarters of the way with dirt. If you're using a can,
cut the top off and then fill it with dirt. Now throw in some seeds and
then cover them the rest of the way with more dirt. Place the bottle or
can on a sunny windowsill and water it once a day. Soon you can enjoy
the radiance that only a beer bottle born flower can bring a room.
Go Bowling
If
you have access to a long hallway and don't care much about making a
big mess, you can have some real fun bowling with your empties. Set up
the bottles or cans at the end of the hallway in a traditional bowling
pin triangle. Now grab yourself a tennis ball (anything bigger would be
too easy) and hurl it down the hall. The cans will topple and fall, the
bottles might smash, and you'll have a blast. If you got enough
empties, you and a few friends might even get a full length game out of
it.
Make Fishing Lures Out of the Caps
With
all this talk about what to do with the bottles, we forgot to mention
something really cool you can do with the caps. If you enjoy fishing
you'll be pleased to hear that all those shiny caps you usually discard
so quickly can be turned into valuable lures. Grab yourself a bag of
three prong hooks and a hammer and nail. Use the nail to gently make a
small hole in the cap. Now attach the hook via the hole. Now make a
similar hole at the other end and attach a swivel clip and you're ready
to reel in some big ones. Seeing as fish don't have very big brains,
these free little creations actually work quite nicely.
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