How To Un-AdultProof a Pill Bottle

As we have all discovered, child-proof bottles really aren't. They're more 'Adult-Proof' than anything else. That push-down while twisting action just doesn't happen easily as we all get older. However, its fairly easy to Un-Adultproof one of these caps, which is far safer than just dumping the pills into a regular bottle and forgetting what's inside.

This probably falls under the "It's News to Me" category, but I thought I blog about it anyway.

While in China my in-laws were having a particularly hard time with a stiffer than normal cap on a pill bottle of vitamins. So I took a look...

It turns out, these child-proof caps are actually two caps in one. The Inner cap has the threads to screw onto the bottle, and the outer cap has gear-like teeth to engage the inner cap when you press down.

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How I did it - by Dr. Victor Von-Frankenstein
[a reenactment]

So all you need to do is cut away the outer cap.


First, cut a notch in the lip of the outer cap:


Then cut off the lip off the outer cap:


Discard outer cap and use the Inner cap on the bottle.


Ta-da! You have now freed yourself and your elders from the burdens of an overprotective, overly litigious society. Now, go have a beer and bask in your grand achievement!