Empty Tins

[billjohnso20]

What do y'all do with empty tins? It seems like a waist to just throw them out and it takes decades for empty tins/cans to have any value. I can see a few uses like holding screws, in tackle boxes, in tool boxes, etc. But beyond those uses, I can't think of anything else.

 

[Elric]

Pocket Survival/Tool kits?

 

[BROBS]

I donate them to St. Vincent DePaul.

 

[scloyd]

I have a magnet bar on the wall in my smoking room/porch. The tins that have nice tin art get stuck to the magnet bar.

 

[mso489]

The art off many tins would make a nice montage from the brands that specialize in art. Once art is removed, the tins would make nice projects for children to affix their own art or art from magazines to make a container for their treasures -- small seashells, postage stamps, buttons, etc. Tubs or tall tins make a way to keep a pipe kit in the car, truck, or boat.

 

[quaffer]

I've kept a couple of hinged Solani tins for specific uses, but otherwise they all get thrown out. I just don't need them for anything.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I keep a few of the nice ones with no gob't stickers.

Related: How can you remove the label in one piece? (I use a few to put on Mason jars.)

 

[logs]

Cellaring - What Do You Guys Do With All The Empty Tins? :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion

The title pretty much says it all but here's a picture just so this isn't a boring wall-of-text thread. I don't care too much for the tins with the gaudy SMOKING KILLS labels but these clean tins were always a struggle for me to throw away. Unfortunately I have gathered such a burdening...

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[olkofri]

Redundant tins I use to store hardware (Chicago screws, &c.). Most tins, however, I keep as collectible items. Since most of my purchases have been all different blends, that means I only have one redundant tin. ?

I coopted the tin of Sillem's Black to keep my rosaries in: it just smells so good as to make you think of Heaven.

 

[workman]

I keep at least one of each of the blends I jar to decant into. The rest I press and carry on me to remind me of the sin of smoking.

 

[trouttimes]

I keep a few to transfer bulk into to give away or to carry around.

 

[python]

I trash most of my tins. I used to try and keep them, but the amount that I smoke, they were quickly adding up.

I do keep a few of the types that have the plastic lid that snaps on such as C&D, McClelland, GLPease, etc. to put bulk tobacco in.

 

[3rdguy]

I keep anything I have once as long as it does not have a warning label.

 

[olkofri]

I slice the labels with an Exacto knife and peel them off.

 

[shanez]

Oddly enough, empty tins as well as cigar boxes and empty bottles of better alcohol can be sold on sites like OfferUp.

They don't necessarily bring a lot but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick (or a dull stick for that matter) and it's better than just throwing them in the trash. Kinda like recycling.

I've actually gotten decent money out of some bottles.

 

[Akousticplyr]

For musicians- they make nice guitar pick holders. I also remove the stickers, put them on my music gear flight cases and refill some of the tins for carrying bulk tobacco around. I even print & laminate approprate jar labels for the reused tins.

 

[mingc]

I donate them to St. Vincent DePaul.

What does St. Vincent DePaul do with them?

 

[BROBS]

Sell them for 25 cents or something?

 

[shanez]

Sell 5-10 at a time. Don't know what people do with them but people are creative.

 

[Spa32]

Keep 1 in my glove box for loose change. Have a few in my pipe room just because I like the art and maybe someday I will do something with them. Most of them get Recycled.