Tin Cans

From coffee to soup, tin cans are abundant!! Below are some of the nifty ways we recycle, reduce, and reuse our empty tin cans:

- the various sizes of coffee cans can be spray painted & used as an inexpensive kitchen canister set. You can decorate them in many ways: paint, stencils, decoupage pictures, etc. I even use them for storing oatmeal, pastas, etc
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- we use a small tin can for a scoop for Sheema's dog food.

- we use the large coffee tins for protecting baby tomato plants. We cut off the top and the bottom and place the can over the plant until the plants are a few weeks old

- for a slow drip system for our garden, we use the large coffee tin. We use a hammer and a nail to punch a few holes in the bottom. Fill with water and it slowly waters our garden.

- our niece took soup cans and painted on them and gave them as Christmas gifts for holding pens and pencils

- for outdoor candles we melt down old wax, replace the wick and use them for outdoor candles

- during the winter, we fill the large coffee cans with sand. Easy to sprinkle the sand on icy patches

- when doing home baking for gifts, we line the coffee cans with wax paper and then fill with homemade cookies. The tin can prevents the cookies from getting broken!

- when painting the exterior of our house, we poured paint in the can. It was a lot easier than lugging around a gallon of paint!

- we use the small cans, such as tuna or salmon cans, for cookie cutters

If you have any others uses, we would love to add them to our ever evolving recycle, reduce, reuse list, email us.