They make great containers for almost anything. Wash thoroughly and Paint them up using acrylic paint or spray paint and then put them in your garden, kitchen, office etc. Look good with plants in or just as a pencil holder. Use different sized ones and stick them together to make one of those 80’s style desk tidies. You can also add one of those plastic keep fresh can lids that just pop over the rim, then if you cut a slit in it it makes a money box.

If you have a little time try this:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_metal_wire/article/0,,HGTV_3257_4021144,00.html

You can also use a sharp tin punch to make patterns of holes in the sides of them, pop a tealight in the bottom and use them to create a fairylit walkway round your garden or outside your door on a summers evening. (Always place them on stone or heat resistant surface)

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Yes, I use them for plant pots in the garden. I drill some holes in the bottom to help drainage first.

I’ve also used them, with both ends cut off, as plant supports - and to keep slugs away (using the old vaseline trick on the top for any really dertermined slugs).

Creative idea @ http://www.allfreecrafts.com/recycling-crafts/tin-can-storage.shtml

I/ve used them for roof patches on my shed, make hobo stoves out of them. I grow plants in them . Made the desk caddys out of them. Make buddy burners out of tuna cans usng recycled card board and recycled wax candles.patched holes in car floors with them repaired pipes w/them and recycled innertubes .

I know it’s a bit childish but you could use them to make those “cup telephone” things…

You can (!) also use them as a hiding place for keys, money, etc.

Keeping labels on, either clean out a used can and create a plug for the top with some polystyrene, or open a can from the bottom, clean it out and create a plug for the bottom. Put something you want to hide inside and store plug-side down with your other cans.

You can make a tin man, look on hobbylobby.com and click on projects, type in tin man.

I use them for candle holders. Clean them inside and outside (take of lable). Fill them with water and freeze for a day. With the frozen water in them you can easily make holes with a hammer and a nail (wear gloves it is COLD) and voila once water is out you have great candleholders.

A while thread dedicated to projects from crafts to CAKES - yes you read me - CAKES!!!!!!

http://www.hometalkentertainment.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24176

Make a clock. Punch a hole in the center on one side and insert a clock mechanism, punch a hole in the top on the opposite side to hang it. These make great clocks for the kitchen.

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My mom used to make tin can doll house furniture by tin snipping the cans into strips then curling them around the needle nosed pliers, the seat was the bottom of the can. They looked sort of like fancy wicker furniture. But be warned, the edges are sharp.

Fill them with cement and connect two to the ends of a bar as weights

Clean them out really well and dry just as well. Get a fitted top which can lock into place and put a slot in the top and give it to your children to help them save money - like a piggy bank but instead, it will be a tinny bank! This way, you as a parent encourage your children to save and learn about delayed gratification, and recycling!

Tools, Jigs and Fixtures: The Key to Efficient Recycling Success!

There is a form of can-opener, marketed Stateside at least, that cuts the can’s crimped rim from the *side* instead of punching through the can’s end from above and utterly ignoring that nearby outer rim in so doing. Having one or more of those Superior Devices handy at all times sure makes all the difference in my own little Inner City eco-hovel, anyway.

Cutting the can open from the side and *through* the rim instead of dagging down from the top in the ordinary manner, y’see, makes for a fine *re-closeable* can of food, while the food lasts. Then one gets a fine standardized re-closeable tin-coated steel container for just about anything else that’ll fit inside, once the food is gone.

Need a hermetic seal from that side-cut second-cycle can? Easily done! Duct tape, cyanoacrylate instant-bond and/or five-minute epoxy all are potentially suitable re-sealants, just depending.

In these parts, many fine retail kitchen specialty shoppes sell these handy side-cutting can openers at full fine-specialty-shoppe retail. Wal-Mart carries a decent one too for half the price. (Occasionally, quality just breaks right on out.)

Po’ folk such as myself just plain LIKE these fine Chinese container-makin’ hand-tools, yessirree. I think such a tool as this is well worth the trouble of finding; others may find a similar happy result for themselves as well.

Reusable sure is better than disposable - all over again. Never could “go along” with a “Type A” media-driven hyper-disinformed culture and ethos that treats 25% of the world’s prisoners just like emptied-out tin cans, anyhow.

Because it is not entirely genuinely human, is why. If only GWB could just once entirely grok why he got boo’d so *unanimously* at the ol’ ball game the other day…

Let’s just keep on humanizing the beast, hm? Even greedy monsters die off, sooner or later… I’d much rather have impeached the bugger and his handler Darth Chain-o’-death, mese’f. Oh, Miz Nancy…

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