Formula Milk Tins

jcr16

following the thread about QS sweet tins. i get through a tin of formula milk a week. and i keep them. i even have the empty ones from my first child. we mainly use them in the shed, full of bits and bob's. or i cover them and use them indoors.for kids toys , pens etc etc
but they seem such a waste just to throw away. does anyone else have any ideas.

Zziggi

I keep them for all sorts of stuff. Probably not what everyone else does but i use them to keep all my OH's chemicals, powders etc etc that he uses for his pottery in the garage!!

I remember my mum having those formular milk tins for my younger sibling, i remember my dad making cutting shapes out of the lide to make sensils out of the plastic lids that came on the formular tins. I still have the sensils and my DS is using them some 27 years later.....

Noozan

lol, I remember my dad punching two holes on the rim, tying a bit of string through it...hey presto, I had tin can stilts!

elvis_bloggs

Noozan wrote:

lol, I remember my dad punching two holes on the rim, tying a bit of string through it...hey presto, I had tin can stilts!

I remember doing that too.

callansdad

Cut a slit in the lid and use in for saving up money, my little ones both have a tin each and any spare change i have in my purse at the end of the week goes in.

I do this with pringle tubs as well

tin_kitten

We keep all of our lentils and other dried pulses in them.

Lillibet_2

My Dad has recently discovered that one formula tin holds £1300 in £2 coins. Mind you, it's taken him a while as I'm 30:rotfl:

kiwichick

My DD's preschool love getting there hands on them, they always have bits and bobs that need storing.

larmy16

This is a Blue Peter style suggestion and its not my idea, but it looked really good.

Someone had glued maybe nine together, attached them to a board (spray painted the entire thing in a tasteful colour) and used them sideways up, if that makes sense, as a bathroom organiser.

So each tin held a flannel (dry) or bottles or those little odds and ends we all have cluttering the place up. I have some slimfast tins that I am holding on to, to one day do something like this!!!!

You could also make something like this sprayed a bright colour for a playroom (all those tiddly bits of plastic you don't know where to put!). Or a girlie one for all those glittery hair things little girls have these days - Barbie pink - they would be the envy of all their friends!

Or one for smallish baby items.

In the workroom/shed.

Office stuff.

The list goes on..... :xmassign: