Fun Things To Do With Empty Tobacco Tins
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That’s still one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a long time.
I like the concept of mini clocks. You can pick up the hands mechanism at a craft store and if I can do it, anyone can.
Here is a candy tin clock I made for my daughter (from the movie Frozen) sitting on a clock my grandfather made.
Here is a candy tin clock I made for my daughter (from the movie Frozen) sitting on a clock my grandfather made.
You could sell those dividers until someone knocked off your idea and put it on ali express.
I’ve always thought that a series of “Time to Smoke” clocks would be awesome: Early Morning Pipe and Nightcap seem like no-brainers.
Every few years we have a garage sale, I put my empty tobacco cans in a box and mark it "FREE". People seem to always find a use for them. Box must have over 50 in it by now. 
Price them at 50 cents. More will leave your premises, I promises.
Take 'em out to the front of the house and play around of kick the can. Piss off the neighbors.
I've got a few of those. These are my daily use ones. I keep one on the front porch, one in the backyard.
If I recall correctly, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons used an empty Prince Albert tin to hold a wireless transmitter for one of his many guitars...
Where's the Scirocco? In your garage I hope. Under rated VW.
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I do the same thing with Sillem's Black tins as they take a full cork in them. A bonus for me is that they have a push down lid rather than a screw on lid which I find easier to open without spilling ash all over myself (if there's any left inside).
I use them for so many different things. Besides mini first aid kits*, sewing kits for Mrs. Rookie and my daughter, I use them the way my father and grandfather used baby food jars. Nails, screws, smaller drill bits or screwdriver bits, things like that. Eventually, hopefully sooner than later, I want to line some of the C&D/Pease style tins and keep camera lens filters in there in my camera bag. And I'm definitely taking inspiration from @PipePint&Cross for ashtrays.
*I'm on blood thinners. That means, for cuts and scrapes, I usually am one level of care past most people. What you'd let air, I use a band aid. What you use a band aid, I'm using gauze and tape. And so on. So round metal tins are packed with rolls of gauze and electrical tape (man-daids as my wife calls them) are tucked in cars and desk drawers and kitchen drawers and fishing and hiking gear.
*I'm on blood thinners. That means, for cuts and scrapes, I usually am one level of care past most people. What you'd let air, I use a band aid. What you use a band aid, I'm using gauze and tape. And so on. So round metal tins are packed with rolls of gauze and electrical tape (man-daids as my wife calls them) are tucked in cars and desk drawers and kitchen drawers and fishing and hiking gear.
It’s actually funnier finding someone beat me to it than being able to make the joke myself
