How many bottles of Italian wine do you go through in a month? What do you tend to do with them once they’re empty? Ahh, all those bottles that had the privilege of carrying such beautiful wine, it seems like such a shame that they should be thrown away, don’t you think?
Here are some things you could do with your empty bottles:
GET ARTSY
Grab some paint, permanent colour markers, glue, glitter, etc, and decorate the surface of the bottle. If you have children, make an artist’s day of it.
Finished? Doesn’t it look beautiful! Actually, what’s more important is that you had fun. Did you have fun?
Once you’ve transformed the bottle, one of the things you could do is fill it with sand and use it as a doorstop, or you could fill it with water and put some flowers in.
Decorating empty wine bottles is something you can choose to do every month with family or friends – maybe decorate bottles during the day and have a wine-tasting party in the evening (so you’ll have more empty bottles to decorate next month!)
STORAGE
Think of what you could store in the empty wine bottle. You could use it to make and store your own homemade wine. All you’d need to do is buy some fresh wine-corks and, hey presto, you have a bottle you can reuse. I have a friend who does this – she makes very delicious homemade elderflower wine using empty (used) wine bottles.
You can also use the empty bottles to store very small seeds, nuts, pulses or even bubble bath.
The above are just a few ideas – there are several others (for e.g., maybe you could take up mosaic-making as a new hobby - a decorative art which often involves using small broken pieces of coloured glass).
Whatever you choose to do with your empty Italian-wine bottle/s once you’ve savoured the very last drop, maybe throwing it away should be your last option.
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