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This should be higher.

why is this an international thing? we do this here in africa too, and yes, with royal danish.

Royal Dansk really should start selling seweing kit in that...just a thought.

My mom has one too and i'm indian 🤣

Like I'm going to throw away a sturdy, sealable metal container.

I can confirm this. I used to have threads for cross stitching in mine, now it's used for buttons.

Imagine starting a cookie company and then the entire world only knows you for the containers

We do it in France too, and also with Quality Street tins.

I'm Asian and I've seen my grandmas and aunties do this. Many other containers could do the same job but there seems to be an unspoken universal appeal with these cookie tins.

it's a good, solid container, why throw it away? I use mine to bake cakes.

My mum collects tin boxes... we have boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes. Probably 1000+ by now.

Always use them for stashing pot lid makes a good rolling tray

The sugar pretzel cookies always go first you have be quick.

Anyone use blue bunny ice cream containers for barf buckets or just my family

Must be coded directly into the matrix.

We try to reuse all and any containers if we can.

We use the large clear plastic empty nut jars that you can buy from discount club stores. They are great for any thing, especially large ones, will hold things like cookie cutters, crochet hooks, etc, etc, etc. Husband uses in garage and workshop all the time. Our neighbor uses them to store smaller bits of craft items. Luckily we get them all the time as husband loves nuts. My gramma and my mom actually had real sewing baskets and I now have them both plus my own. Must be a habit that runs in our family as everyone had a real basket with lids!

Isn't that the fate of every cookie tin? My grandmother did that, and my mother did that.

Yes indeed!

I haven't had those in a while, I remember we used to get them all the time when I was a kid. Woolworth's always had tons of them and they were so good and a low price, too! For years I had the tins for sewing supplies, buttons, art supplies, stickers,..all my friendship bracelet embroidery floss I had also got from Woolworth's. I think I still have some in storage, but for the last 20 years my sewing kit has been upgraded to a decorative tin my mother gave me for Christmas filled with caramel filled chocolate kitties. It has a picture of a cat sleeping in a bird feeder with a couple of confused cardinals looking on, surrounded with pine branches and falling snow.

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Well, ZAP, it's international because you guys do it in Africa, I've seen it done all my life in California and the tins ARE sortof from Denmark. I boubt the places in between us missed all this

yup, got one of those full of sewing supplies that don't fit in the other 3

Great for ammo too

Any of those containers gets repurposed since always.

Keeps dog treats in it...

I use one of these tins to store my collection of pins I've bought at 🇺🇸 National and State Park visitor/gift shops over the years on my visits home to the US. Not only do tins make good storage boxes, the cookies are quite nice. I look forward to the lead-up to Christmas here in Ireland when once again the grocery stores put Royal Dansk on the shelves again.

*bad memories flood back in*

Same in Russia😃 Truly international) Tat was a thing in my parent's house. And some 5 years ago hubs and i were doing groceries, and i saw cookies and said "btw, we need a sewing kit", and he took cookies from the shelf without any questions😂 But my grandma had old round plastic box with dividers for needles, threads, thimbles and those weird things you use to put thread in needle's eye. So it may be just the resemblance of the container.