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Wales Online
Rebecca Cooley

Mum turns Prime drink bottles into homemade lamps after son refused to throw them out

A mum has turned her son's empty Prime drink bottles into bedroom lamps - as the teen treasured the trash and refused to throw them away. Pauline Murphy was clearing out 13-year-old Alfie Riley's bedroom to decorate it for his birthday on January 8, when she discovered a drawer full of the empty bottles on top of more stashed in her kitchen cupboards.

The 51-year-old says the teen has been 'raving' about the popular energy drink for months and didn't want to throw out the 'cool' colourful containers, which are difficult to get hold of due to high demand. So the mother and son duo came to a compromise of keeping one of each colour bottle and decorating them with string lights to act as bedroom lamps.

The pair, who have six out of the seven flavours available in the UK, are now on the hunt for the final one they need to complete their set - Grape flavour. But the staggering popularity of the product means they are forced to travel to different cities and pay over the odds to get their hands on any of the drinks.

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