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posted on September 26, 2009 at 10:59PM Inappropriate?

I really like any product that comes in a reuseable tin.

Food products are the best for tins.

Bandaids just didn't have the same "appeal".

Right now its the Altoid mints, tins.

For a real treat, try the black edged Licorice mints.

But, soon Christmas, with its huge variety of festive/decorative tins will be here.

I just get lost at Target during this special time of year.

Although, the Sears Winter Wonderland always brings me back home...

Look!

Lit Penguins playing on a Teeter-Totter, with a lit hippo yawning over to the side!

replies: 19 latest post: April 03, 2010 at 01:30PM by AdamO
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posted on September 27, 2009 at 02:12PM
 

The big assorted chocolates tins make excellent colored pencil set holders.

I got all 120 Prismacolor pencils in one Whitman sampler tin.

posted on September 27, 2009 at 03:14PM
 

Why doesn't no one make Bandaids in tins, no more?

posted on September 27, 2009 at 09:21PM
 

Sometimes, Craftsman stuff comes in tins.

That's like TWO presents in one package!

posted on September 27, 2009 at 10:10PM
 

A good tin to have is the Craftsman Gift Card tin.

You can give a gift card in it and then use the tin to "hold" something safely.

I have an old 1998 Craftsman Miniature Tools in Toolbox, that was probably an inspiration for the creation of this newer model Toolbox tin.

The old one was sold as an ornament and came with miniature tools inside.

posted on September 28, 2009 at 06:08AM
 

They haven't arrived in the local RiteAid store yet.

But, those little holiday Whitman chocolate sampler tins offer a deeper size than the Altoids tins.

posted on September 28, 2009 at 08:40PM
 

The Jelly Belly tins are good, too.

The Jelly Belly factory is right down the road, a piece.

Someday, we're going to visit the "factory".

posted on September 29, 2009 at 02:00AM
 

OK. This tin may have been a mistake.

The Sucrets tin takes a long time to earn, or you have to have a REALLY sore throat to get the empty tin - fast.

posted on October 18, 2009 at 05:17PM
 

If you buy the larger Lincoln Log set, at Sears, you get a round tin, about the same size and shape of a Pop Corn tin.

No Craftsman tins, though...

posted on October 21, 2009 at 08:24PM
 

It might be time to head off to Target, to checkout their selection of tins.

They're the best store in the area, that carries "unique" holiday tins.

posted on October 27, 2009 at 03:58AM
 

They MOVED the tins!

Target now has "clothes" where the impulse food tin buys were.

That's just ridiculous, moving clothing on to an impulse buy area.

That would be like moving GARAGE DOOR OPENERS to the...

Nevermind.

Yay...

Menswear!?~

posted on October 29, 2009 at 10:55AM
 

For now, it will have to be just the mint tins...

posted on November 01, 2009 at 02:37PM
 

No holiday tins - yet.

I remember this one year.

Hersheys had this Hershey's Kiss squarish tin, with a little tiny little holes in its sides.

So, after eating the chocolate (Oh, joy!) I had me an absolutely fantastical ratchet parts soaking tub.

The WD-40 could come in and not even the smallest... spring or ball-bearing could escape.

I bought several of them tins.

Hey!

Ratchet maintenance, combined with chocolate is pretty much an unbeatable combination.

Still got most of the tins...

posted on November 01, 2009 at 02:38PM
 

The mint tins are great for holding dollops of ratchet grease.

posted on November 03, 2009 at 03:26AM
 

My wife found me a tin, shaped like a small open-end wrench.

Is that enabling, or what!

posted on November 15, 2009 at 02:10PM
 

The holiday tins are starting to show up in stores.

Round tins.

Square tins.

Tins that hold my stuff.

Big tins, small tins...

Tins that are so TUFF!

And, they come with "edible" stuff inside of um...

posted on February 28, 2010 at 10:25AM
 

My latest tin find is a Hershey's chocolate "Big KISS" tin.

It's shaped like a Hershey's Kiss.

Very unique shape, that I haven't found much that will actually fit inside of it.

But, it is fun to look at.

posted on February 28, 2010 at 11:35AM
 

Who makes all these tins? I mean therse gotta be a guy some where who wakes up, kisses his wife then goes to  work making stupid hello kitty tins or something. I wanna watch a how its made on tins now, I bet that would be cool.

posted on February 28, 2010 at 11:40AM
 

That would be so cool, to see.

I've got some colored pencils in an old candy tin (bought new), dated back to the 1996 holiday year!

And, the Verithin colored pencils are still "good".

posted on April 03, 2010 at 01:30PM
 

Sadly, the April holiday does not seem to be a decorative "tin" generator.

:(

I'm still hanging-in-there with my little Altoid tins.

I just finished off the last "CURIOUSLY STRONG MINTS" of the green colored lid tin of CREME de MENTHE mints.

Whew!

Them things will "clear" your sinuses...

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