Everyday Canvas

Something Useful

Prompt: While some people don't care for dandelions, they do actually have helpful properties and have been used in medicines and for coffee substitutes.
What is an example of something in your life that has many different uses? What do you use it for and why?

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Not for everyone, but I enjoy very much dandelion salad with garlic, olive oil and lots of apple-cider vinegar. I also like the way dandelions look on a field where nobody bothers with chemicals and stuff. I love the way their yellow petals turn into feathery puffs and fly in the wind. I don’t know how this plant can be substituted for coffee though. I just don't substitute anything for coffee.

As to example of something with many uses, besides my hands that I use all the time, there is one thing I never throw away, which people discard or send to their local recycling plant. I have to tell the brand name here. It is Syfo sparkling-water glass bottles, not the kind other manufacturers of soda water sell in plastic bottles. I have no use for the drink inside, unless I am baking bread and I use that instead of water, but the bottle is terrific. It keeps just enough drinking water for personal size (10 oz.), once I drain the bottle, wash it, and get rid of the label.

I don’t like my drinking water in any plastic container. These glass containers do not let nasty chemicals leak into them and they are just the size to fit in our hands. Plus this bottle doesn’t have a metal cap to rust, and its hard plastic cap doesn’t touch what is inside it.

In our car, between the driver’s and passenger’s seats we always keep two bottles with drinking water inside them. We also help store in them other things, like iced green tea, or iced coffee, or salad dressing or anything else we like. In our fridge, we keep an entire row of these bottles with drinking-water in them. They are cool and easy to hold in hot days while we watch TV. We also use them on our night tables, without the risk of knocking over any glass of water.

Just a few days ago, I bought Syfo again for its bottles. If I had searched for these bottles elsewhere, chances are I would have paid a lot more than the $ 2+ for six of them.