Breeding Biscuit Tins .

[Theland]

Robert Burns shortbread tin latest to turn up, after a few years.
Several Xmas biscuit tins lurking about.
So many odds and ends in them all.
Stuff that might, '' Come in handy.''

Do your biscuit tins tell a story? Your history? Your memories?

[Bobbisox1]

I’m not a hoarder of anything TL
Out it goes

[Theland]

Soxy, I'm jealous of your self discipline.

[Bobbisox1]

Every so often I have a purge, and never look back :0)

[Cloverjo]

I don’t have biscuit tins but I have drawers of things that might be used again or that I just want to keep for the memories.

Match books from hotels and restaurants; bike spoke decorations from when my son was little; birthday cake candles - used; postcards; elastic bands...
Bits of string too short to be of any use - I nicked that quote from someone, but it does fit me. :)

[Mamyalynne]

Biscuit tins are a great look back through history, they represent the changing times and are great storage without falling back on plastic.

When I was a child they mainly ended up in Dad's workshop lined up on shelves in an old kitchenette cupboard- they were full of weird and wonderful bits and bobs I could sift through and ask about.

Mum claimed the prettiest ones for buttons,photos and first aid supplies.

Each had a story to go with it.

[woofgang]

I keep a very few but mainly they go out the door. I do have some proper antique ones though

[Theland]

Many years ago as an apprentice, our factory were printing the plate for a particular biscuit tin.
Lovely very busy garden scene.
And in the bushes, (it got past the inspectors and went into production,) were two tiny dogs, doing what tiny dogs do
In bushes!

[Mamyalynne]

Wouldn't mind finding some of these in a cupboard.

https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/reading%E2%80%99s-top-ten-biscuit-tins

[pastafreak]

For me it's not so much biscuit tins as decorative boxes in all shapes and sizes...wood, metal, alabaster...from junk shops and some were presents..., also the pretty boxes you find in tkmaxx. The all hold bits a bobs and look pretty on my shelves. All have memories.
My daughter has inherited box collecting...she also stores loads in them.

[pastafreak]

I have one similar to number 4 in mamya's link. But it's American and probably 1970s.

[Theland]

We all need places to store glue, pins, nails, plasters, pencil stubs, broken plastic thingies that broke off the other plastic thingy.

[david small]

No tins, no biscuits.

[Mamyalynne]

Charity shops often have a plentiful stock of the less than pretty ones, they can be easily decoupaged to make smart storage using paper napkins.

[wolf63]

Theland - are you still incarcerated or have you been discharged?

[Mamyalynne]

He's home Susan.

[zebo]

After OH died in March I have been sorting the garage and I came across some stuff that clearly came from my father's garage, lots of cigarette tin, some from manufacturers I'd totally forgotten.

[Toorak]

The last tin on the link at 14.48 sounds very like the one Theland described - I wonder if it is the same one?

[Mamyalynne]

I recall one in the family that was a vehicle with wheels,not sure it made it as it became a toy.

[wolf63]

Thanks, Mamya.

If I get a delivery in a small cardboard box I try and use it as storage. If the box is larger Frankie claims it and either sleeps in it, plays in it or totally destroys it.

If I bought tins of biscuits I would end up even fatter and my diabetes nurse would lecture me for years to come.

[Theland]

Zebo, so sorry for your loss.

Yes came home Tuesday morning, thank you.