DANGER! Childproof/Petproof your E-liquid!

[trukinlady]

Hi all;

Just thought I would share a way I've discovered to reduce the risk of children and pets getting poisoned by any e-liquid they may find.

To the best of my knowledge, e-liquid doesn't come with childproof caps. Neither do the plastic bottles you can order to store and mix it in.

Some dogs (like mine) want to chew whatever they can get their paws on! So I went out and bought a small metal lock-box at Walmart to secure my liquid.

I use the clear plastic childproof aspirin bottles to store my e-liquid so I can see at a glance how much I have on hand, or need to order. I also use my childproof empty medicine bottles (without the sticky label) to store my used carts/attys until I can clean them. The bottles are easy to label with an indelible marker, and small enough for travel.

You can even measure how much liquid you put in there with the plastic dose "spoons" that come with most children's medicines. Or the measuring cap from a bottle of NyQuil. I label my bottles with each measured amount, in increments just like a measuring cup. You can use an eye dropper or syringe to draw out the liquid when filling your carts.

Beforehand, I thoroughly wash each bottle with hot soapy water, and let it drip dry. In no time they are dry and ready to fill with your favorite liquid.

This is a simple solution that can give us vapers a little more peace of mind.

 

[Raven_Blackblade]

I keep my juice in a kind of dresser (but it is about maybe a foot high, and about 6 inches wide) with 3 drawers, and it is on top of the DVD cabinet, which reaches about mid chest to me. My dog is not a dog..... but infact a pug

My juice is insanely safe

And on the note of my pug... It is time to walk him BRB!

 

[rfun6]

I gotta pug too !!

 

[Raven_Blackblade]

I gotta pug too !!

Arnt they just the greatest little things? We were going to get an English Bulldog because my dearest darling is a Marine, and the English Bulldog is the USMC Mascot.... but the gosh darn little cuties are just too expensive. So we ended up getting our sweet little pug and named him Chesty Puller

He just celebrated his one year birthday in January, and will be celebrating his 1 year anniversary with us here in a few days.

This is a pic of my little guy

 

[Lilibet]

Arnt they just the greatest little things? We were going to get an English Bulldog because my dearest darling is a Marine, and the English Bulldog is the USMC Mascot.... but the gosh darn little cuties are just too expensive. So we ended up getting our sweet little pug and named him Chesty Puller

He just celebrated his one year birthday in January, and will be celebrating his 1 year anniversary with us here in a few days.

This is a pic of my little guy

Chesty is adorable. What a perfect name too. My dearest darling was a Marine and you know what they say, once a Marine. . .

trukinlady, I absolutely agree with your sage advice. We don't have kids but we do have a dog and two cats. I'm always careful to keep my supplies out of their reach. It only takes a second for a tragedy to occur.

 

[Raven_Blackblade]

Chesty is adorable. What a perfect name too. My dearest darling was a Marine and you know what they say, once a Marine. . .

trukinlady, I absolutely agree with your sage advice. We don't have kids but we do have a dog and two cats. I'm always careful to keep my supplies out of their reach. It only takes a second for a tragedy to occur.

I have 2 cats as well! Lucretia (7 years old), and Nicholae (5 years old) Lucretia is pure white, and Nicholae is white and gray.

 

[Lilibet]

I have 2 cats as well! Lucretia (7 years old), and Nicholae (5 years old) Lucretia is pure white, and Nicholae is white and gray.

Ah, they're beautiful! Lucretia's another great name. Several years ago, we had a Moluccan cockatoo named Lucretia (actually, her name was Cesare until she laid an egg. )

 

[Dudeman]

Lucretia? Megadeth fan?

On topic: My shephard wont touch anything until he gets the "Ok". My juice is safe.

 

[AlexTM]

Actually, every juice I have had so far comes in childproof bottles. Of course, we all know how child-proof they really are …

Liquid should always be stored safely out of reach of both kids and pets. A lockable box would be good, or for pets, a tupperware one that really closes well.

 

[Rocketman]

If you recycle bottles that used to have something tasty in them
(Cherry flavored NyQuil)
Relabel them, don't leave interesting bottles around for the kids (all the way up to live at home 25 year olds) or kids friends (that know everything).
Just imagine some stupid kid dumping 30ml of 24mg/ml e-juice into a RockStar energy drink. They're stupid like that.
Childproof plastic bottles actually have about the same feel as a "Play ToY" to a pet.

Rocket.
(be smarter than the stupid people)

 

[AngusATAT]

Some very good advice here. I've got a lot of four-legged friends in my house, and losing any one of them due to my own negligence would be terrible.

I keep all of my liquids in a large, sturdy tackle box.

 

[jasezero]

My cat thank god hasn't developed a taste for plastic or glass (yet). But he does love paper and soft sandals...

But i do keep all my stuff away in a drawer that he doesn't get into. If i do leave a cartridge or something small laying around by accident, he will grab it off the table and knock it around the house with his paws though. So I do try to be very careful.

 

[Sherrick]

Tackle box here too. My youngest son is 12, but he has severe autism and in many ways has been in his terrible two's for about the last 10 years. A tackle box works well because of the large open bottom area for liquid storage, and it has lots of small compartments for tools, batteries, cartos and such. It also has a padlock "fitting" so I can lock it up tight if I wish.

 

[trukinlady]

Actually, every juice I have had so far comes in childproof bottles. Of course, we all know how child-proof they really are …

Liquid should always be stored safely out of reach of both kids and pets. A lockable box would be good, or for pets, a tupperware one that really closes well.

Where do you get your juice from? I hadn't thought of Tupperware, that's a good idea.

 

[trukinlady]

So many good ideas! I hadn't thought of a tackle box.

I'm very protective of my "fur children"! They're all rescues, and very precious to me.

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

The Halo bottles are heavy glass and are childproof dropper bottles.

I have a pretty white painted tin and metal diamond wire decorative 3 drawer tower next to my chair on the side table that I put small bottles in. Something like this would work to keep pets out (but not children)

It is made by Rolodex and is only $17 at Office Depot.

Thankfully my spoiled Beasty Boys (Poodle and Yorkshire Terrier) don't have any interest in my bottles, but is better to be safe.

 

[Poeia]

My pets have 2 legs -- and wings. Most of my supplies are in the kitchen. The bottles I'm currently using are dropped into empty medicine vials (with the labels removed). Unfortunately, I have a ton of those. Those are either on the top shelf of my computer workstation or on a small folding table near me that once was used for eating until the liquids took it over. I wash my hands with soap before handling the birds. But I find it very easy to overlook ways to give them access to some of the liquid.

I used to keep my supplies in an old tackle box (which had previously held my makeup.) One day I opened it on the floor behind me, took something out and turned to use it. I forgot about the box until I heard a sound behind me. Annabella had climbed down from her cage to check out the box and was biting one of the edges. Needless to say, the box now only holds straws, Fluval, pliers, etc. (She's also interested in shoes, dust pans, shoes, whisk brooms and shoes. If I turn when she's "sneaking" down she turns and goes back up.)

When I top up a cart, I shake the bottle, uncap it, add the liquid, recap it and put it back in it's medicine bottle. Both birds, but especially Poeia, like to hang out on my computer desk between me and the monitor. A few weeks after I started vaping I realized that there was a ring of liquid at the corner of the desk where I had put the cap down. I now put the caps on the medicine bottle lids on the side table and my computer work station gets cleaned with a wet cloth at least once a day.

If I get a drop or two on my t-shirt and don't feel like changing immediately, I turn the shirt around because both birds literally "hang out" on my shoulder or shirt front. (This doesn't work at bedtime because Poeia will "hide" in the middle of my back so I can't put her into her cage.)

 

[Raven_Blackblade]

Ah, they're beautiful! Lucretia's another great name. Several years ago, we had a Moluccan cockatoo named Lucretia (actually, her name was Cesare until she laid an egg. )

That is just too awesome!

Lucretia? Megadeth fan?

On topic: My shephard wont touch anything until he gets the "Ok". My juice is safe.

And yes I am a huge Megadeth fan. Check the pictures in my profile You will see me with the Band. Dave is a good friend of mine.

 

[Rosa]

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i just bought one of these at walgreens this morning. It has a tray with three small compartments on one side, a big compartment in the middle and two goodish sized compartments on the other side. The tray lifts out and the bottom half is totally open, perfect for my bottles of juices. The box locks with a three digit code (no key to hide or carry around with me) It was about 20 bucks. sorry the picture is so small-don't know how to resize it. It's called a "vaultz cash box"

however: I'm reading reviews and people seem to hate this box and say the lock is flimsy....who knows, maybe I'll hate it too. One person said it locked and they couldn't get it to open again! Horrors!

 

[Fishin' Cricket]

And yes I am a huge Megadeth fan. Check the pictures in my profile You will see me with the Band. Dave is a good friend of mine.

That is just tooooo cool! Next time you see him tell him you talked to some guy online who has spent his entire life working on imitating his vocals.. (Id think I could win a contest if there was one... And yes, this is more than just the opinions of my friends and family)