I’m on a medication that gets delivered to me in a dramatically over packaged way every two weeks. Part of this packaging is a styrofoam cooler about 27x22x25cm and two unlabeled cold packs.

I currently have 7 of these and expect to be getting them for the rest of my life. Aside from just tossing them, do any of you lot have suggestions for what i can do with all these coolers?

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Chop the Styrofoam into little pieces. Place in glass bottle. When the time is right, add gasoline. Now you have napalm. Rag for wick./s <-- this means I’m just kidding and you should never, ever do this or throw it at fascists.

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      3 days ago

      Also, in these situations, you never want to use the rag as a stopper for a bottle filled with gasoline. Instead, you cork the top, soak the rag in oil, and tie it around the bottle neck. Light the rag. When the bottle breaks, it’ll ignite the theoretical napalm.

      Doing this will keep the gas from spilling on you when you throw it. Safety first!

      /s <-- this is all a joke, of course and we definitely don’t condone violence or burning fascists.

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      3 days ago

      Funny enough, I’ve done this before. The big issues is the styrofoam loses its fluff and you end up with a small glob. It’d be more effective to mix it in a bowl and pump it into the bottle.

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    3 days ago

    Depending on the density of the Styrofoam, it can be used as a rainfall simulator for a greenhouse. Water drips through some Styrofoam in a very random way.

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      2 days ago

      As much as I’d love that for a small greenhouse, these probably wouldn’t work. They’re almost 5cm thick and tight enough that I’ve stood on them without compression or denting.

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        2 days ago

        May be worth running water over one just in case if you are interested in pursuing it. I was so confident that a Styrofoam container for my humira meds would hold water that I filled it up and started walking before realizing it was dripping all over me.

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          1 day ago

          Hey, we’re med buddies! Well now I definitely have to at least fill it with water, I’ve got a lot of tropical plants that would love a good rain.