Empty Tins

[mso489]

Loose change; loose hardware like nuts and bolts and hinges and nails; punch holes in the bottom and use top and bottom for starter planters for low-intensity gardening, as in starting a sprinkling of heritage tomato seeds in one, various flower seeds from dead-heading plants in another, etc. As planters these need to stand in a low waterproof flat to catch the run-off. Kids love these for stamps, cutouts, and other treasures. They rust, so just recycle. Many, many other uses.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

A hole puncher, some wire, two empty tins... manbra! Armored manbra!!!

 

[prairiedruid]

The work great for holding bait when ice fishing. Have a couple I store wire snares in; otherwise general hardware storage. I try to keep 1 tin of everything I've smoked for some future display project.
I suppose you could add water and freeze into an oversized hockey puck for us old timers.

 

[winton]

Tobacco tins are great for storing shaving soap.

 

[jvnshr]

I saved boxes and boxes of the rarest most beautiful tins just for this guy, and he never responded to my PM's nor emails. So, I chunked the boxes into the bin. I needed the room and an appeased wife.

Oh ok, didn't know that, looks like he had an unappeased wife.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"The work great for holding bait when ice fishing."
Just so long as you don't absent mindedly fill your bowl with worms while fixing a flake to your hook :roll:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"and the most obvious: For storing tobacco in it!"
Actually Deniz that's what I do. As tobacco arrives here it is rubbed out (I buy mostly flakes) and jarred immediately. I will then decant from these jars sufficient tobacco to fill a tin, dry it off then put it in the tin for everyday use.
That said, I still have an ever growing mountain of empty tins looking for a home :roll:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[zackery]

I really like the idea of putting them under the glass top of a coffee table. Also nailing the tops to the inside walls of the garden shed.

 

[oldmojo]

My wife uses them in her jewelry-making business. They are just the thing for small beads, stones, silver what-nots and such.

 

[zackery]

What about the boxes your pipes come in? I guess they are serving a useful function at the moment keeping the sleeves (do people actually use those?) and other knick-knacks they come with separated. Given that I recently bought two pipes I didn't necessarily need, eventually those boxes will probably have to be moved from their drawer to a cabinet...then a closet...

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Also nailing the tops to the inside walls of the garden shed."
Please excuse my ignorance Zack but what purpose does that serve....other than putting holes in your shed walls :roll:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[condorlover1]

Brilliant Jay! You are a man after my own heart. Maybe its a new way to armor plate your shed from idiots like me who like to blow up empty tins. :rofl:

 

[zackery]

You never put old license plates, signs, etc. up in your barn or garage or whatnot? Not like I would be using 8 inch lag bolts or anything and the inside is pretty drab looking. I'd rather be looking at the art on the tops than dirty mdf and 2x4s. It is all for naught anyhow as I have found someone that wants them. There will plenty in the future to do a table or the wall.
lol Condorlover

 

[danielplainview]

What Duane said. ^^^
Open. Jar. File 13

 

[nevadablue]

I am planning on putting up a sheet of thin steel in my room, and making a display of tins on it using the little magnets that can be had by the gross from ebay. I will post pics when this gets going.

Also, I just like tins. They are useful things as well as they are normally very interesting advertising... ala U-Needa-Biscuit. :D
I have one of these tins in my cabinet now, and looking at this 'net photo, tins make good candle cans also.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"You never put old license plates, signs, etc. up in your barn or garage or whatnot?"
Nope, I can't say that I have. And for what it's worth I fail to see any advantage in so doing but to each his own I suppose :roll:
Regards,
Jay.

 

[cortezattic]

Hanging old license plates on the garage wall is quite common here in the Chicago area.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Hanging old license plates on the garage wall is quite common here in the Chicago area."
That would go a long way in explaining to me why in so many American films I see cars with no plates at all or some with only a front or back number plate...Cortez has pinched them all ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[mcitinner1]

Hanging old license plates on barn/garage walls has been a common thing ever since there were license plates.

edit: Old expired plates Jay. :mrgreen:

re-edit: For some unexplainable reason, some states require a plate both front and rear, while others say just the rear plate is enough. :crazy:

 

[pappymac]

Make wall art out of the old tins.