Reusing Tin Cans

Reusing tin cans sounds like something from our grandmother’s days, when they used to carefully wash out any rare can they might have and put it to good use. Today, we seem bombarded with tin cans. They hold everything from asparagus to yellow squash. Although I try to cook from scratch using fresh ingredients, I still have a supply of cans in my cabinets. For example, yesterday I made a pumpkin pie which required (at least for my recipe) two cans. One for canned pumpkin and the other for evaporated milk. Many cans come with a pull top lid that … Continue reading

Dozens of Uses for Coffee Cans (1)

As we are anxiously preparing for a fall garage sale in a week, we are literally finding dozens of items that we completely forgot we had. Apparently we are more a group of pack rats than I thought. Amongst useless furniture, baby items and lots of outgrown toys, we also came across a few “treasures” that we had forgotten we had. Many disposable items that we decided to keep to use for other things such as butter tubs, milk cartons, cans, lost socks, egg cartons and torn clothing. Sure, some is making it’s way right into the trash can as … Continue reading