Use them as furniture for a dolls house of course. Or storage of nail, nuts, or bolts in the shed if you’re a grown up.

I use matchboxes to keep my sewing kit tidy - eg. one for buttons, one for poppers & clasps.. I used to have one for pins as well but they tended to try to escape so now I use a little tupperware box instead.

SaraR

Matchbox as Travel Sewing Kit:
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/0,21770,1154762,00.html

Make a Needle Matchbook:
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/needle_matchbook

Or simply use it as a nail file:
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/content/0,21770,713035,00.html

If you collect coins or stamps, use them to organize them.

There is a game/competition where the you try to fill a match box with as many different things as possible. Things like a grain of sand or a blade of grass count. Its amazing how many things a matchbox will hold!
You can also cover them with coloured paper, make them look like little gifts and use as Christmas tree ornaments.

glue them all together into a chest of drawers and attach some sort of handle to the slide-out box using tacks or something and use them to hold some of the above mentioned items.

my mum made a miniature chest of drawers for me when i was little, using six small matchboxes stacked in two piles. the whole thing was glued together and covered in fabric, with split pins for drawer handles, it was a beautiful thing which i treasured for years.

How about this?!

http://kookiejar.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-like-tigers-too.html

It’s damn tedious… but sheer pleasure after it’s done! : )

paint them, small blocks

Send them to me! Please?! :D

I love the matchbox dresser idea, and I might make one for myself. Here’s a cute tutorial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftsty/sets/72157600622935488/

Matchboxes also make cute gift boxes. Read this forum for some inspiration and ideas: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=997935

Matchbox Advent calendar: http://www.marthastewart.com/m-is-for-matchbox-advent-calendar?autonomy_kw=matchbox&rsc=header_10

Matchbox Gifts: http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.0e0eb51a2e6b5ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=9d2c8dd9f3e35110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default&rsc=header_4&autonomy_kw=matchbox

Hi i am studying illustration, in my third yr at uni..i desperatly need matchboxes for a project…any one wanting to get rid can send them to me, small ones are preferable, but big ones will do!
please mail me if you are interested in off loading..

ellen.petitchou@googlemail.com

Just saw these neat art project using matchbooks. I love it!

http://www.blurty.com/users/matchboxproject