Comments on: 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:02:13 +0000

I like the USB Chargers… I’ve seen them all over, but here is one example.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-USB-iPhone-iPod-Charger-On-The-Cheep/

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:29:24 +0000

I absolutely love ALL (well, most) of these ideas. Like, the really useful ones, haha, I can’t think of any reason I’d need a fireball shooter or a dart gun but the rest of those are genius. And I agree with other posters that sometimes men will need a sewing kit, if, say at a formal or business event a button falls off, an Altoids tin or Altoids Smalls tin would be perfect for a little emergency businessmen kit; for my wedding I made emergency groomsmen and bridesmaid kits out of Altoids Smalls tins with safety pins, asprin, breath mints, clear bandaids, toothpicks (had to break them down a little though), and bobby pins. Both manly AND feminine uses. ;)

Chris: My husband has a huge collection of various sizes of CR bags, plus one of the gold bags. He uses them for his first aid kits, they’re a little more feasible than an Altoids tin for carrying medical tape and gauze pads in along with all the trimmings. A Roadside Assistance bag would be cool too with a flare or roll of reflective tape, emergency blanket, flashlight, and… oh I don’t know, look up an emergency roadside assistance kit and see how much you can cram into a CR bag, lol. Depending on the size, you could fit quite a lot.

By: Olia

Olia — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:56:44 +0000

Can be used also as make up kit.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:57:41 +0000

Hey, Chris…my dad used a Crown Ryoal bag to store his hair trimmer and all the doo-dads that went with it. He also kept his pocket heater for hunting in one of the smaller ones. I think one of the bigger ones housed his sunglasses…doubled as a cloth to clean them. He had about six more bags…not sure what he had planned for them. LOL

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:57:31 +0000

How about some creative uses for crown royal bags other than change collectors and shift boots.

By: Val

Val — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:56:41 +0000

My boyfriend and I use them to carry our cigar smoking stuff. They are big enough for a lighter, a cigar punch or cutter, and are handy for storing the bands if you want to save them. I have a slightly larger tin from a 3 pack of Casa Magna cigars that I use more often because it carries a V cutter, a cigar punch, a lighter and my glue stick, which I use to glue cigar bands in my notebook.

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:04:00 +0000

A friend of mine needed something to do with the 300+ Altoid tins in his office… this is what he came up with.

http://wbzn-fm.com/what-do-you-do-with-three-hundred-altoids-tins/

By: Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:22:06 +0000

I have seen examples of people turning altoid tins into amplifiers for personal audio

link here: http://hackaday.com/2011/05/01/lm386-altoids-tin-amp/

By: Josiah

Josiah — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:35:29 +0000

Jim, I used to used Altoids tins as cases for an mp3 player I owned previously. It was called the Creative Zen Micro or Micro Photo. they would fit perfectly inside with room for a thin layer of foam on all sides to give it some padding. It looked something like this: http://cdn.uberreview.com/wp-content/uploads/zenclose.jpg

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:07:58 +0000

Listen figure out a way to implant an old ipod or mp3 player into one of those.