Any uses for big Quality Street tins?

silverfoxdude

Gave my son one a few years ago for all his pens and pencils

monkeylugs

Advertise them on Freecycle. I bet they would come in really useful for someone, one man's rubbish is another man's treasure, and all that!

SnowyOwl_2

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Unfortunately (I lie!) I don't have kids, so the drum kit isn't going to happen...

My fav suggestion is to use one, maybe two of the tins to store my Christmas baubles. I'm surprised every year when I open the tatty cardboard box and all those glass things are still intact, specially as I've moved house twice over this past two years. I might have a go at revamping one or two other tins, if I ever find the time, and make them into something pretty to store..err, pretty things...um...

I like the concrete slab idea too...Quality St tins this year are a nice hexagonal shape, so could have lots of fun with that one, but I think I will wait until the summer to do that.

There's going to be a couple more tins when I get back to work in the New Year. I really find it shocking that people just put them into the bin rather than recycle - though why the tins are not made out of some material which decomposes and which originates from a renewable source is totally beyond me. Imagine how many go to landfill every Christmas across the western world. Sorry I am a bit p!ssed right now so forgive my wittering. A friend of mine says that our landfills are the tin mines of the future...I expect that she is right...

Zziggi

keep the kids Lego in?

tootles_2

Keep one, make your mincepies at the beginning of december, put in the tin and seal the lid with sellotape....... open at Christmas........just gently reheat the pies in the oven and serve warm....

I iused to bake at least 100 dozen mincepies each year starting in mid November and this is how I used to store them until they were collected, the tins were returned to me the following year to refill, I think each of the big tins held about 3 dozen pies.

Edinburghlass_2

saraht wrote:

This one won't apply to everyone, but my Mum has a big dog and now he's getting old his joints all over his body aren't so flexible. So Mum has stacked 2 empty quality street tins on top of each other and puts his dinner bowl on top of it and it's not so far for him to bend his neck down to eat from it!

This post made me smile as it reminded me of my lovely Dad. We had a local joiners business and he was often asked for unusual "gadgets" to be made.

One was by a breeder of Great Dane's and apparently because of their size their necks are quite weak and its not good for them to bend down for their food. Dad designed a wooden structure where a toilet seat shaped "bit" that would take a washing up bowl could be moved up as the puppies grew bigger.

Miss you Dad

Bogof_Babe

Don't know why I forgot when replying yesterday, but I use a couple of pretty ones on my chest of drawers (which doubles as my dressing table) to stand all my moisturisers, hair sprays etc. in. I have put inverted plastic tops off deodorant aerosols in one, to make small separators in which my makeup etc. live. It stops things getting all messy and muddled up.

Another idea I just had - the really big ones (giant Quality Street) could be used for making up Christmas hampers for gifts to elderly family or neighbours, or perhaps for school bazaars or the Church fete.

superscotsman

Useful for keeping porrige oats or muesli in. Tea caddy, coffee tin. If you are into backpacking, you can use it to stop the rodents from getting at your perishables, you could even use it as a cooking pot at a pinch. If you get into trouble, you can use the lid as a signal mirror. If you have a lot of these, try flogging them at car boot sales.

blue-kat

good on you for retrieving the QS tins from the bins at work - such a waste !
you could always take them to a charity shop, bet they'd be able to sell them easily. In fact I'll be looking in my local charity shop old tin, baking tray or something similair to put under DD's joss stick burner. she's put it on wooden shelf (argh !)

I keep 5kg of oat groats (bought from wholesale health food place) in old sweet tin, better than the heat sealed plastic bag it's supplied in.
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Katya

squiggles

Ive got one with drill bits and small tools like stanly knife and screwdrivers.
Another with things that might be handy one day,(that ive collected forever),spare radiator knob for example,no idea why ive got a full tin of pure junk so to speak.And another with all my nuts,nails and screws,plug thingies,washers.And another one with nothing in waiting for something else for me to hoard:)