What Do You Do with All Your Empty Tins?

[jdunbar]

I just started smoking tinned tobacco and wonder what you all do with your empty's.. I have all of two in my collection now with a few more on the way. :D
Pictures and suggestions would be appreciated!!
Edited by jvnshr: Title capitalization (please check Rule #9)

 

[unkleyoda]

I save one of every brand I get, and keep them in a box as a collection. After that, I throw them out.

 

[cigrmaster]

I normally throw them in the trash. Once in a while my ex wife will ask me for some, not sure what she does with them.

 

[ashdigger]

I throw them in the circular filing cabinet.

 

[hawky454]

I threw my first few year haul out in 2012. I tossed all of them (4 large trash bags worth) and I totally regret doing that so I have been saving them since. I store them in boxes out in the garage and plan on nailing them to the wall in my future man cave. I want all my walls to be covered in tobacco tins.

 

[coffinmaker]

Use them for nails and screws.

 

[mikethompson]

They are great little tins for storing small objects. I appreciate the artwork / design / lettering some of them as well as the leaf inside.

 

[philobeddoe]

I collect and display vintage tins and will keep any especially attractive new tins, other than that they get tossed.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Recycling for most; screws, nail, bits of this and that in a few that I haven't tossed. .

 

[sablebrush52]

Recycle. Maybe a couple will be "trophy" tins, maybe not.

 

[danielplainview]

 

[derekflint]

I kept my Solani SF tin........it's one of the better ones.....

 

[tennsmoker]

I save vintage tins, and some I think that might make it to that distinction in the future.
I will not be hoarding any of those half art-half nanny warning tins that you see from European outlets.
Over the years, I have tossed many of the older tins I had and wish I had them now.

 

[bluegrasspipe]

Horde them like a squirrel..

 

[warren]

I've got some filled with small parts. Now I toss 'em in the trash.

 

[ray47]

If the blend has been discontinued I'll save them, otherwise they get tossed out.

 

[prndl]

Square tins...I've kept a few of the older ones.
Warning labels...I toss 'em.

 

[james72]

Great question, jdunbar. I was wondering what other people did with theirs. As for me, I use a few as pellet and bb gun targets for my son and me. I throw the rest in a box and plan to keep them as long as I have space. I figure they'll be worth a few bucks in 40 years. I've also thought about attaching them to a wall some day if I get enough (like hawky454 said).

 

[unkleyoda]

If anyone has any University Flake, Sillem's Commodore Flake, Dunhill Flake, Dunhill Dark Flake, or Irish Flake square tins, I'd love to have them. I the tins I have are round and I'd love to have the square ones.

 

[condorlover1]

The older ones I send to Philobeddoe as he seems to collect them any others get used as ashtrays and tins to put 'stuff' in that would normally clutter up your pockets.