Creative Ways to Give Cash: Prescription Bottle

Here's How:

1. Find a suitable size prescription bottle - buy one at the pharmacy, raid your own medicine cabinet (remove all labels and wash the bottle before re-purposing it), or look for an old-fashioned, brown glass bottle with a dropper.

2. Using your computer and a pharmacy-ish font, such as American Typewriter, make a label for your prescription bottle. Invent a pharmacy, appropriate medication name and dosage instructions:

   Rx Burrell Drugs
   DR. CHRISTOPHER BURRELL
   Graduationprophen 100MG
   Take as needed for celebrating major milestones.
   Rx:05082010 (the graduation date works well here)
   Prescriber: The Burrell Family

   Print and cut out your label, and attach it to the bottle.

3. Roll up your check or large denomination bill and tuck it inside the bottle. If you are using a bottle with a dropper, use a tiny piece of tape to attach one end of the check to the dropper, then roll the rest snugly around it and insert it into the bottle. Voila!

Tips:

1. The Container Store carries old-fashioned, brown glass medicine bottles with eye droppers. They look terrific and only cost a couple of bucks, but the opening is very small. Make sure you attach the money to the dropper, so your new graduate can retrieve it!
2. If you have mailing label paper, use it to print your label. For regular paper, use double stick tape to attach it to your bottle.

What You Need

• An empty, clean prescription bottle
• Mailing label paper or regular typing paper
• A computer and printer
• A check or cash