Any uses for empty sweet tins???

furrypig

Got loads of sweets (roses, celebrations etc) for Christmas and now have empty tins.

Hubby says chuck them out as we have too much clutter already but I hate to bin them (albeit pit them in recycling) if there is a good use for theem I have overlooked.

Thanks

cookie_monster

how about a donating to local school as they might have some use for it.

kethry

i find them useful as cake tins, but if you have enough of them already, why not offer them on freecycle, someone else may want them for that purpose, or for storage.

HTH

keth
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seraphina

Another one here who uses them for storing cakes and biscuits in. Only problem is you have to open them to see what's inside them, and once they're open it would be rude not to have a slice:rotfl:

chocolate.orange_2

Sealing it with sellotape. Somehow put a slot in the top and use it for a sealed pot challenge ? I think thats what i would do ( just imagine how much one of those tins could hold )
Hmmm i have a tin in the garage. Just found myself a use for it

But yes they are great for storing cakes in too

iamstacie

Cover them in decorated sticky back plastic and use them for hamper tins for people at christmas/easter/birthdays etc. Makes a nice, more personal version of seagrass hampers (and is moneysaving! :money:) The Christmas and Special Occasion boards have loads of ideas for types of hampers & homemade stuff to put in them.

Millie's_Mum

My DD has one of those which is filled with all sorts of things that we think might come in useful for crafts, tissue paper, the little decorations off crackers, feathers, bells, corks, little bits of ribbon etc, and then when its a rainy day and we are looking for something to do we open it and see what we can make.

We don't open it to use very often but we are always sticking things in there so its a nice surprise when we come to use it for craft ideas there's always something we had forgotten about.

Yategirl

cake tins, storage tins for arts and crafts stuff or small toys or cookie cutters, storage for seed packets, great for storage in the garage (nails/screws/rawlplugs).. the list is endless!

if you really find you have no use then why not offer them on freecycle before the recycle box - many people will have a use for them.

mags50_2

My hubby always nicks any we have to use in the garage for his bike parts and odds and ends.

I never get to use them in the house for anything else!! :rotfl:

mary43

I've got one myself...............or will have once it's emptied. I intend to cover it in a sort of collage of pictures -not quite sure what sort yet - and make some sort of gift box out of it.

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I use any that my family 'donate' to me for my craft stuff. I have one for stamping blocks and another for embossing powders ect. It's very useful, as I can stack them away in my spare room.
Local nursery schools might find then handy for storage of lego or crayons as well