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the next Festive Food TSV is on the 22/10/18
the thought of collecting biscuit tins fills me with dread...I dont collect anything and the amount of stuff I have to keep sifting and throwing away is irritating enough WITHOUT COLLECTING BISCUIT TINS! :mysmilie_5:
I was in Home Bargains the other day and they had quite a few fancy tins of biscuits. i have a thing about not collecting tins because my Mother hoarded them. When she died and my Dad moved house I sorted through things for him and we had tins galore, biscuit tins, Quality Street tins, shortbread tins etc. We had a biscuit tin full of buttons because she always cut the buttons off discarded clothes, we had a tin full of first aid stuff such as plasters and bandages, we had a tin full of sewing threads and needles, another tin held shoe polish and brushes and one filled with medicines and tablets and she even had a tin filled with odd spoons, egg cups and pastry cutters. There was also a tin filled with pens besides the telephone and yet none of the pens ever seemed to work and if you rang her and she needed to write anything down you`d hear her swear cos the pen wouldn`t work so she`d disappear off to find another tin with a working pen in it. She had a tin filled with clothes pegs which on occasion must have been left in the rain and had turned rusty so if you pegged out her washing for her you`d have to be very careful not to get rust on it and that`s just the tale of SOME of her tins so maybe you`ll now understand my phobia about not owning any lol