[Nfb-krafters-korner] Altoids tins as Storage boxes

Henry Osborne hosbornejr at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 15:38:42 UTC 2017


Hi All, ah yes, I remember the Sucrets brand of cough drops. Grin. Do they 
still sell those cough drops?
My Parents and Grandparents used them for many things too.

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I use these for a lot of different things too. I have my safety pins
separated by size into tins, my sewing needles are in one, my straight pins,
and when I have tiny glass beads I keep them in tins. The uses are many.

Rhonda


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Altoids are a type of breath mint. My jaws mispronounces it.  Phonettically
it is pronounced alltoids.

You can get them where the individual candies are sold in drug stors and
quick marts.

The larger tin is about the size of a deck of cards and the smaller ones are
about 1 inch by 2 inches by a half an inch high.  The larger size is more
common.  The little one is supposed to be a pocket size to just take enough
for a day or so with you.


They have a hinged top.

When we were young those cough drops called Sucrets used to come in these
kind of tins.  My grandmother would paint them so the box was pretty and not
covered in advertising print from the item that had formerly been inside of
the box.  She would use them for all kind of things.  Some things she had
these boxes for were: a box of toothpicks in the kitchen, a box full of
change by the door to give to kids at Halloween for unicef or pay the
newspaper carrier a tip, she had a box in her sewing table for sewing
needles, there was one in her desk drawer for postage stamps. She had one in
the Christmas ornament box for extra ornament hangers.

I love these little hinged tins, and clearly she did too.



Dixie
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What kind of tins?
Not heard of that or it is a misprint!

Terry

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I like to collect Altoid tins for my storage containers.



The larger ones hold things like the end caps for my interchangeable
needles, another one that I keep in my knitting basket has a pair of folding
scissors, a tapestry needle, a measuring tape.  I use a small one for point
protectors.  I use another small one to hold my stitch markers.  Then I have
for my cable needles a very special zippered change purse.  This was made by
a friend and is knit out of yarn she spun from German Shepherd fur and
lamb's wool.



So n the basket I am using for my current project I will have the tin with
the scissors, measuring tape, etc.  an abacus, the cable needle pouch and a
tin of stitch markers.





Dixie

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