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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15453
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 1:38 pm Post subject: Sweet Tins
What with the festive season, these things seem to be breeding. A few are useful for keeping things in, but any ideas for the rest of them? Or just whack them in the recycling bin?

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 1:46 pm Post subject:
My daughter has one of the plastic ones, with holes drilled in the lid, as a portable cage/ safe space for her hampster. Kate

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Sweet Tins

Hairyloon wrote:

What with the festive season, these things seem to be breeding.
A few are useful for keeping things in, but any ideas for the rest of them?
Or just whack them in the recycling bin?

crafters love them for storing bits and pieces. kids likewise.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 1:47 pm Post subject:
give them a quick squirt with a pretty shade of car paint and they become much more attractive for stacking up as storage boxes, much easier to palm off on people when they look all posh and shiny rather than advertising a brand of choccies

nats

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2374
Location: Swindon but not a Swindonian

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 3:06 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

give them a quick squirt with a pretty shade of car paint and they become much more attractive for stacking up as storage boxes, much easier to palm off on people when they look all posh and shiny rather than advertising a brand of choccies

That's a good idea!!

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 3:23 pm Post subject:
I find those big 'Biscuits for Cheese' plastic tubs really useful for storing food/cake/bread, or small homebrew kit. Metal tins (I find) go rusty in the end, but until then, they are good as mouseproof food storage, and for DIY / gardening bitsnbobs

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 5:02 pm Post subject:
the metal ones are good for a first stand first aid kit dotted around the place. rodent proof and damp proof too.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 5:33 pm Post subject:
I've a metal tin that I intend to make artists charcoal in once I can figure how to fit it in the woodburner & still have room for a decent fire. .

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 5:44 pm Post subject:
I keep my seeds in a old sweet tin. Other's are used for storage in the garage.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 7:53 pm Post subject:
With a few holes, the placcy ones make good bait boxes.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46390
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 8:00 pm Post subject:
good for thread ,bolts etc a source of sheet metal for many things useful for cake keeping

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 8:11 pm Post subject:
I mended my exhaust with one once, it and a bit of gloop.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46390
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 8:15 pm Post subject:
yep that sort of thing with a bulb and a hole they are good for candleing eggs

T.G

Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 7280
Location: Somewhere you're not

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 8:16 pm Post subject:

sfolati wrote:

I mended my exhaust with one once, it and a bit of gloop.

I thought that used to be the domain of bean cans?

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Dec 22, 10 8:38 pm Post subject:

T.G wrote:

sfolati wrote:

I mended my exhaust with one once, it and a bit of gloop.

I thought that used to be the domain of bean cans?

Especially when camping

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