I get the light up houses every year if I like the contents (yes to biscuits or chocolates, no to tea) and the look and colour, and now have a little village I put across the bottom of my fireplace at Christmas. The lights are still going after 3 or 4 years of evening use over the 3 weeks they're on show. I picked up some in the sale and a couple in a charity shop (empty) for 99p!
Churchills rip off
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Toril
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As the guest is always banging on about the tins, maybe people should just buy them, eat all the biscuits and wrap the tin up for a gift.
They’re overpriced anyway, especially considering what you can buy elsewhere. Thankfully I haven’t been tempted at all because I haven’t eaten any biscuits for over a year and the people I buy things for wouldn’t want them either.
They’re overpriced anyway, especially considering what you can buy elsewhere. Thankfully I haven’t been tempted at all because I haven’t eaten any biscuits for over a year and the people I buy things for wouldn’t want them either.
No biscuits for a year!! Serious willpower...or cake instead?
Can't say I'd be thrilled by an empty biscuit tin for Christmas, but each to their own!
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I’ve bought a 300gram pack of Pattersons clotted cream Shortbread from Tescos for £1.
. No fancy tin just a cardboard box that can go in the recycling.
. No fancy tin just a cardboard box that can go in the recycling.I don't see the point in paying all that money for a fancy tin. Back in the day when the only choice for storage containers was Tupperware which could only be bought from Tupperware parties, then these tins often came in handy. My mum kept all her sewing bits and bobs in a family circle biscuit tin and she had a similar one full of spare buttons and cakes were kept fresh in an empty Quality Street tin ( They were huge back then!) Nowadays you get stuck with a tin that you have no use for so it ends up in the recycling or the bin if you're naughty. Just give me the biscuits, and let's face it the cheapos are just as good (probably made in the same factory) and if you've got guests, lay them out on a pretty plate and they'll be just as much as a treat as something offered up in a fancy tin, they all go down the same way!
The big Quality Street tins must be collectors' items now. I wouldn't buy anything from the Churchill woman. She sounds as mad as a hatter and the tins are horrible.
