My wish today to my Magical Fairy Godmother is

londonsurrey

... to tell the chocolate makers to stop producing round tins.

I appreciate that it makes the amount of chocolate being offered look like more, and they make excellent cake tins.

However, we've had years and years and years of these tins, and I'm sure that most people now have enough cake tins.

I would like the tins to be rectangular or square, so they store neatly, with no wasted space. I want storage boxes!


And, seeing as its a magical fairy godmother wish, I would also like the tins to have hinged lids, and be a neutral colour/decoration, without the brand all over them. The manufacturer can achieve this with a removable label.

It would also allow me to justify buying LOTS of tins of chocolate.
Thank you, magical fairy godmother. Tomorrow, I'd like to chat to you about enchanted self drying bath towels.

blossomhill_2

Sounds like you need to buy storage boxes that suit your needs, not chocolate!

Four_leaf_clover_2

Your fairy godmother would have it easy fixing chocolate tins and bath towels. Your life is clearly far more sorted than mine . Though I think your tin ideas and self drying bath towels are brilliant .

My fairy godmother would be on her knees in no time sorting out all the carp I need help with in my life.

libra10

I totally agree, circular tins waste so much space.

I always buy rectangular Tupperware storage containers these days as they use much less space in the fridge.

lostinrates

londonsurrey wrote: »

... to tell the chocolate makers to stop producing round tins.

I appreciate that it makes the amount of chocolate being offered look like more, and they make excellent cake tins.

However, we've had years and years and years of these tins, and I'm sure that most people now have enough cake tins.

I would like the tins to be rectangular or square, so they store neatly, with no wasted space. I want storage boxes!


And, seeing as its a magical fairy godmother wish, I would also like the tins to have hinged lids, and be a neutral colour/decoration, without the brand all over them. The manufacturer can achieve this with a removable label.

It would also allow me to justify buying LOTS of tins of chocolate.
Thank you, magical fairy godmother. Tomorrow, I'd like to chat to you about enchanted self drying bath towels.

Please, not hinged! I put cakes on the lids of boxes, and use the box as the lid. That way they are easier to cut and serve. Hinges would scupper that!

londonsurrey

blossomhill wrote: »

Sounds like you need to buy storage boxes that suit your needs, not chocolate!

£5 for a storage tin - a bit hard to justify on my budget, as I want about 50 of them.

£5 x 2 for a couple of seasonal chocolatey treats, justifiable.

And then the brilliant bit - I ask for the empty tins on Freecycle.


I am a touch insane, but I am also frugal. Lol.

londonsurrey

Four_leaf_clover wrote: »

Your fairy godmother would have it easy fixing chocolate tins and bath towels. Your life is clearly far more sorted than mine . Though I think your tin ideas and self drying bath towels are brilliant .

My fairy godmother would be on her knees in no time sorting out all the carp I need help with in my life.

The way I see it, at a wish a day, I can waste couple on easy stuff.

Though you do realise that you've now conjured up a S&M outfit in my mind for your fairy godmother, with her on her knees, in black leather and lace?

londonsurrey

lostinrates wrote: »

Please, not hinged! I put cakes on the lids of boxes, and use the box as the lid. That way they are easier to cut and serve. Hinges would scupper that!

How about we carve up the world, the way Britain and Spain did for their colonies? For our chocolate tin world, we could agree to go halves, and some brands can produce them with hinges, and some without.

I could do with both types, and would make forays into your territory to trade hinged for unhinged. Oh dear, that double entendre is unfortunately too appropriate here.

Four_leaf_clover_2

londonsurrey wrote: »

Though you do realise that you've now conjured up a S&M outfit in my mind for your fairy godmother, with her on her knees, in black leather and lace?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hmmmm not quite how I pictured her myself. I was thinking more along the lines of the mumsy type in cinderella.

Brighton_belle

lostinrates wrote: »

Please, not hinged! I put cakes on the lids of boxes, and use the box as the lid. That way they are easier to cut and serve. Hinges would scupper that!

I can't believe I have never thought of doing it that way round:o

Spendless

A few months ago my 12yo son asked me to name a product that would make my life easier and I said "objects that put themselves away" and he replied "and now can you think of something that doesn't defy the laws of science".

PS- londonsurrey -you need peeps to buy you luxury biscuits for the tins (though that wouldn't solve the hinged lid bit)