Old Biscuit Tins ??

katex

katex

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I keep some of my important papers in an old biscuit tin .. Peak Freans 'Star Assorted'. This probably only about 40 years old.

Anybody else still using something like this ?
 
yep , same here .... , we had a bugger of a time when my Grandma passed on , hers were in a gas mask case on a hook under the stairs
 
My sewing box is an old Crawford's biscuit tin. It's at least 40 years old. Old photos (hundreds of them) are in the cardboard box my first vacuum cleaner came in, bought in 1963.
 
steeljack said:
yep , same here .... , we had a bugger of a time when my Grandma passed on , hers were in a gas mask case on a hook under the stairs
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My mum and dad had a spike in the pantry under the stairs and pushed their bills on that ! what's the point ! chuck 'em .. only very rarely will you have the need to look back at them. Mind you, the computer has seen to that, hasn't it.

Surprises me how many of my colleagues still file certain papers that are on the computer.. like copy orders, why ? surfeit to requirements as far as I am concerned.
 
My Mum an Dad had the spike too! Was yours hooked over at the top Katex and hung from the hook?

I've got loads of things in tins, usually things like Cadbury's Roses tins, buttons which I will probably never use on anything, ribbons, lace.........
 
I keep some wax crayons and pastels in my Mum's old biscuit tin, which has Dale Evans on the front with her old man's horse Trigger.:)
 
steeljack said:
Dales horse was named Buttermilk , thought everyone knew that ;)
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Well Buttermilk must have been feeling a little horse the day the biscuit tin photograph was taken, because she's definitely nuzzling Trigger.;):D
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
Wasn't Trigger Roy Roger's horse? (He being Dale Evans' other half.) So how many horses were there on this tin? :D
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Ond horse, Trigger. Buttermilk must have been unwell for the photo shoot.:D
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
My Mum an Dad had the spike too! Was yours hooked over at the top Katex and hung from the hook?

I've got loads of things in tins, usually things like Cadbury's Roses tins, buttons which I will probably never use on anything, ribbons, lace.........
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When i was a little girl i used to play with my nanna's button tin for hours when she passed away a couple of years ago that was one of the things i got of hers the old button tin it is a quality street tin an old one still got lovely buttons in it!!
 
Reading this took me back to when i was a kid. We used to have a box up on the top of the kitchen cabinets and everything and anything was thrown in there - buttons, tape measure, paper, crayons, bits and pieces of everything. If we wanted a button or something like that mum used to say have a look in the box, so down would come the box and tipped on the floor and we'd spend a couple of hours looking through the stuff we'd tipped on the floor. Sometimes we'd find it sometimes we wouldnt. If we didnt then it was the sewing box or the drawer.
 
MUMMIBOO said:
When i was a little girl i used to play with my nanna's button tin for hours when she passed away a couple of years ago that was one of the things i got of hers the old button tin it is a quality street tin an old one still got lovely buttons in it!!
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Oooo I'm with you on that one mummiboo spenty many happy childhood hours playing in the button tin :D
 
yes i still use a biscuit tin my self like you say doing things like that is handed down from grandad,grandma,and my mum and dad also i my self most be like you there is nothing up with that.
 
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