What did you find in those reusable tins and plastics?

[GAlady]

 

[jujube]

Quite often it was a penicillin plantation.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I remember my dad having tins from tobacco filled with screws, nuts, nails. etc. I don't think I ever remember him going to a hardware store for anything. He made shelves under our basement steps and kept them all in order.

 

[Kadee]

I still have a button - bits and pieces tin ..why I keep it heavens knows

All the clothing items I buy from a ladies speciality shop come with a spare button or diamanté or two so I must go through them and put them in the op ( charity shop ) bag as some use buttons for card making and other crafts

I’d say I’ve had the tin and some of the contents 40 years ,especially the old swing machine tin .

The button tin has Cadbury chocolates stamped into the metal lid

 

[PamfromTx]

Spools of thread, buttons, other sewing items, safety pins, thumb tacks, nails, screws, and other stuff.

 

[Jules]

Buttons. Mine. Another from my mother. DH’s mother‘s. More buttons than anyone could ever need. Once in a blue moon, I use one.

 

[Kadee]

Buttons. Mine. Another from my mother. DH’s mother‘s. More buttons than anyone could ever need. Once in a blue moon, I use one.

Same here @Jules but the day after you bin a heap of buttons / zips / elastic you can guarantee
you will be looking for that item a week or two latter.
I still,have a left over spare button I put on granddaughters dresses I made for them when they were 2 and 4 both are now 27 & 29

 

[Aunt Bea]

My grandmother used to keep a little money in an old baking powder can in the kitchen cupboard with the rest of the baking supplies.

 

[Aneeda72]

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OMGosh I have the first item, the cookie tin had it for decades, , filled with those items.

 

[Fyrefox]

Sucrets tins were great as a durable pillbox, or as a small “treasure box” for kids to keep trinkets in! The throat lozenges themselves were almost painfully strong, but would numb a sore throat but good...

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Ken N Tx]

 

[terry123]

I always taped notes to my tins so I would know what was in them. Saved a lot of time looking for things.

 

[hollydolly]

Biscuit ( cookie) tins, always ended up holding threads.. or Buttons... or screws.. and even now I have one which holds all the loose family photographs taken when I was a child..(not of me ).. stored in what was a large Chocolate biscuit box...