Innovative re-using of pet bottles

My mom is very creative when it comes to storing things in kitchen. She is fond of finding new uses for old items. Especially she loves to reuse good looking old bottles. I use contact lenses and for maintaining them I use Renu solution. These contact lense solutions come in pretty looking bottles (blue & white) and the bottle has small mouth which enable you to control the flow of the solution. You can squeeze the bottle to increase the flow. Once I left an empty bottle in the hall. My mom picked it up and filled it with gingelly (sesame) oil. In the evening I picked up the bottle and poured solution into my lense’s case and stored the lense. Next day I took the lense and put it into my eyes (when picking itself I felt sticky in my hand but I ignored). The vision was blurred and I started feeling burning sensation in my eyes. Then I realised its something to do with the solution. Few minutes later I realized that the bottle had gingelly oil (this oil has different smell). I was furious and asked my mom why did you use my renu bottle for storing oil? She coolly replied “why did you pick the bottle up from the hall. I kept it out for your dad to have oil bath”. She added saying “don’t worry gingelly oil is good for your eyes, it will get into your body and help in keeping the body temperature (keep you cool)”.

I am not the only victim of this creative reuse. My father suffered too. Once my mom stored gemaxin powder (powder we use to prevent ant from entering food items). My mom bought it in polythene pocket and for easy usage she stored in shower to shower bottle (shower to shower is absorbent body powder which is normally used to keep your body dry, especially during summer days in chennai). Shower to shower bottle is very handy to use. Unknowingly my dad applied gemaxin powder and later forced to take bath twice and made to apply coconut oil in his body to control the itching sensation.

After these incidents we advised my mom not to indulge in such innovative reusing of old bottles. She nodded at that time. But few days back I saw new nicil powder bottle in our toilet. I went and asked my mom why you kept this our toilet. She said it contains bleaching powder.

Her creativity is unstoppable. Nowadays I am very cautious.