Make A Coin Holder Out Of A Lip Balm Container

Hello again folks. Long time no instructable. Well today we will be making a simple and very effective coin holder. It's easy. This one holds Quarters but it can also hold Nickels, Dimes, and Pennies but I find that Quarters are more important. This one fits Quarters just right. But in the end, it's what YOU wanna put into it. The best parts of this are: it's cheap, easy, effective, AND has a screw on top so the cover will not come off easily! Brilliant! Let's get started.

UPDATE!: This "cointainer" can hold up to 15 quarters. I recently tested it out. Enjoy!

Step 1 Scoop out the stuff

Ok, so I have here a beige/tan blistex container called: Daily Conditioning Treatment (DCT) SPF 20. This happens to be a medicated lip balm that I bought once. I didn't realize it would be medicated so I no longer used it. Sorry but I hate having mint feeling on my lips...soooooo...decided to one day do something with this container that I am no longer using.

So here is how we do the scooping:

Take tissues and start scooping out the lip balm. This took 3 or 4 tries in order for all the stuff to come out. then take another tissue and just get all the last remnants.

Comments

[Motmugje]

I do like this tut!

[neodonkii]

This is great. I also find that using quarter-size prescription medicine bottles works well too!

[punkrules]

Yes. those work just as well. I used to use them before I decided to convert a lip balm container into a coin holder. ;)

[Father Christmas]

might I ask what significance a waterproof coin container might have? as far as I know, the liquid doesn't exactly harm them...

[punkrules]

as for the waterproof part, I said that because you don't have to only hold coins or quarters in it. you can find other stuff to put in there.

[Father Christmas]

ah. ok. well, i guess that makes sense. But this is called "Make a Coin Holder ..." so... you get my point?

[bustedit]

yes, i find putting quarters in quarter sized things, nickels in nickel sized things, etc. very convenient. but i wouldn't make an Instructable on it.

[punkrules]

that's fine but I felt like making an instructable on it anyway...cause hey you never know what ideas people can get from others ideas.

[chuckr44]

I got a few of these empty containers in a set at Big Lots once. I had no idea what to do with them but now I do. The set also had travel shampoo containers too, which are great for storing alcohol for alcohol stoves for camping.

[BeanGolem]

Quarters are fairly water-proof themselves, so it probably wouldn't matter too much unless you plan to hold non-coins. But then you' d have a completely different I'ble all together.

[arashiodori]

I was under the impression that coins were generally very weather proof. When was the last time a coin was reduced to an unusable state by water?

[bruno13069]

M&M minis tubes are perfect to hold quarters for laundry day!

[pyro13]

Stash box!!!