New use for an empty tin

[winton]

Recently I started using a double edge razor again. But what do you do with the used blades? I found an empty metal tin. I used a drimmel to cut a slice on the side of the tin, big enough for a blade to slide in. Then I used some Gorilla glue to seal the tin shut. I assume in another 5-10 years I will have to toss the tin and make another one.
Winton

 

[cobguy]

Great idea!
I use them as match holders, tobacco transporters and pellet gun targets.

 

[dustmite]

Excellent idea! I bought a "blade bank" when I first got into wet shaving. That was 4 years ago, and I think it's 3/4 full now, but I know what I'm doing next time, thanks to you.

 

[tobyducote]

Very creative

 

[huntertrw]

Everything old is new again:
Back in the days when homes came equipped with bathrooms with built-in medicine cabinets, those cabinets usually had a horizontal slot (typically 1.5 inches in width) in their back walls. And the purpose of that slot? Why to receive used double-edge razor blades!

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I put a pickup and a jack in one and made a little stomp box out of it. Plugged in through a PA system, it sounds just like a bass drum.

 

[cajunplume]

my Merkur blades has a slot at the bottom that you dispose of old blades with. Cool idea though! I keep my tins in hopes of neat ideas such as yours.

 

[johnnyreb]

I keep a round tin in my truck full of coins for change. I keep another round tin in my truck with a cork knocker glued in it for an ashtray. In my tool bag I have a square tin full of Allen wrenches. On my bench is a square tin full of small drill bits that I don't have an index for.

 

[snagstangl]

I thought that was what the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet was for?

 

[prndl]

The wife crafts jewelry as a hobby. She wraps the small square Capstan Blue tins (minus label) as a gift box for each piece she finishes.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

She wraps the small square Capstan Blue tins (minus label) as a gift box for each piece she finishes.

Love that.

 

[marcel]

I always feel somewhat guilty tossing an empty tin thinking there some use I could use them for. So far they remain folder for the land fill.

 

[tennsmoker]

Tins are good place for paper clips and thus on your desk.

 

[jumpcannon]

Great idea!

 

[gambit88]

I met a guy who glued a knocker in an empty sutliff can and uses it as an ashtry. I thought it was a killer idea

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

When certain solicitors come to my door, I open the door and toss the empty tins at them screaming, "Demons in these tobacco tins! Demons in these tobacco tins!!!" And then I shut the door.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Good ideas!! Keeping a few around for various things like these is one thing, but I generate enough empty tins to build an addition to my house with them. I give them away to whomever wants them, but for the most part, most leave in the trash.

 

[shikano53]

I use a straight razor.

 

[huntertrw]

Empty tobacco tins are also great for storing fishing flies. Just be careful that you don't inadvertently fill your pipe with elk-hair caddis imitations!

 

[okiescout]

I use them for coins and cash staches, matches and filters in the car, and torched off for char cloth for black powder reenactments. Picked up some good ideas here though. I hate throwing them out. I know there will come a day when they figure a way to do away with them like the old cracker and cookie tins. But you can only hoard so much junk.