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Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 8:57 pm Post subject: What ways to recycle ... empty coffee tins
I've got large numbers of empty 250g Illy coffee tins, and I am looking for ways to reuse them. I had used them to hold screws, nails etc, but as they are not see-through, they were not great. The tins are about 5" wide, 8" tall and have screw-on lids.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 9:49 pm Post subject:
They're excellent for storing ground coffee.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
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Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 9:50 pm Post subject:
https://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-Money.html#1914

Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 10:08 pm Post subject:

Nell wrote:

https://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-Money.html#1914

I can't quite figure out what the 1914 - 1980 Average Minimum Wages paid to Ordinary Agricultural Labourers for Basic Hours has to do with reusing ideas for empty coffee tins.

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 10:10 pm Post subject:
I suspect it was meant to go on to Hairyloon's Old money thread.

sean
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 10:10 pm Post subject:
You could keep everything you earned in one.

Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 10:33 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

They're excellent for storing ground coffee.

I'm afraid I grind my coffee seconds before I make a cup, so no need to store pre-ground coffee. And neither do I need them all to store coffee beans ... I have far too many empty tins for that.

Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 768
Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 11 10:34 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

You could keep everything you earned in one.

I do use one for any spare foreign money I happen to collect on my travels. But I only need 1 tin for that.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 9:30 am Post subject:
eBay?

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 10:19 am Post subject:
They make excellent wood burning camping stoves.

alice

Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Posts: 2820

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 12:05 pm Post subject:
.....and stilts https://www.instructables.com/id/Tin-Can-Stilts/

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46235
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 12:16 pm Post subject:
feeders .filters ,pipes ,roof shingles ,washers ,etc etc etc tinned sheet steel is very useful for many make do mends

otatop

Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 1425
Location: North London

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 2:24 pm Post subject:
All sorts of gardening stuff in the shed: wine corks to put on the tops of canes to prevent accidental blinding Bits of that green plastic covered twisty wire for re-use String Hanging basket hooks

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 4:55 pm Post subject:
You could always use them as a base for a herb spiral.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Apr 28, 11 7:44 am Post subject:
Switch to bags of beans and store the beans in the tins.

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