Don;t you love a bargain

[stampin stacy]

Was picking up allergy meds for hubby, and found a couple of dollar bargains while waiting.

First was a cute tin of cookies, it's the tall kind that will be perfect altered to hold markers or paint brushes or something in. After the cookies are gone of course.:p

The other bargain was a package of "pocket memo pads". There were 10 of them with 40 pages in each one. I feel an altering session coming on, does someone want to come over to play this week?

[XrayAmy]

OMG I love tins! It's a sickness I tell ya. I could care less what's inside, I just want the tin. Back when I had a "real" job and we would get a gift from a doctor's office and it was in a tin...I always called dibs. I don't do anything with them except use them to store things in like beads, glass frit, jewelry stuff, etc...

[stampin stacy]

In this case the insides were good too. They were those cookies that they roll out into a pancake like shape and roll into a tube shapes. The inside was a yummy lime filling.

I have tons of tins too, including ones with advertising them on display in my kitchen.
Examples - Snickers, Milkey Way and M&M candies
Several Hershey
"Popcorn movie nite" one
2 different Quaker Oats ones
Some depicting art from one of my favs, Terry Redlin
Several CAmpbells soups from an Aunt that was a Campbell's collector
One Currier and Ives
Also some copper metal tin canisters


But I am not addicted I tell ya!!!:noway:

[Becky P]

:exorcist: Oh, geez, Stacy, you are going to get me in big big trouble. First the recipe for pina colada pudding, then the pork roast, and now tins. My hubby thinks I already collect too much stuff, but you never know when you are going to need it. And I LOVE to alter stuff.

I thought my sister was going to pass out the first time I altered a book. She reads voraciously (as do I), and to her a book is sacred. When she saw me tearing out pages, painting stuff, punching holes and cutting I thought she would die. So when I was done, I gave it to her. She's much better now...lol.

[stampin stacy]

:laugh: Then I guess you don't want to know that the tin that those instant flavored coffee's come in are the perfect size to alter as an ATC holder. So is a bandaide tin if you can find one. :rolleyes: Hate that they come in a plain ol box now, course you could save and alter it instead.:p

BTW did you try the pork chops yet?

[XrayAmy]

:laugh: Then I guess you don't want to know that the tin that those instant flavored coffee's come in are the perfect size to alter as an ATC holder. So is a bandaide tin if you can find one.


Now that's a cool idea!

[stampin stacy]

Yeah, but don't tell Becky ok, I'm already in trouble with her :lol:

[Becky P]

:wave: You aren't in trouble with moi....my hubby says I'm a packrat. I prefer "collector". Of course he should talk....he has more fishing stuff than I have stamping stuff, and his is way more expensive.

I grind my coffee and use the flavored creamers, so no coffee tins for me, but I'm going to hunt up a bandaid tin. Thanks for the suggestion.

And no, I haven't tried the pork chops yet. I've had a touch of the flu, so I'm restricting myself to easily digestible foods for the moment. Hmmm...maybe I should make some of the pina colada pudding.

Okay, I'm off to the kitchen to see what I can rustle up...

[stampin stacy]

Becky, feel better soon :)

[Taniwolf]

Hi i have been getting some rubberstamps at
the local rescue missions in my area.
Alot of these stamps have never had ink on them.
i love finding a bargian.

[stampin stacy]

Taniwolf, I am glad those stamps found a new home where they will be loved a lot :D .

[stampin stacy]

Decided to put snacks into that tin I got for a dollar when we went to the baseball game this weekend and they confiscated it. No tins allowed, :argue: I just wanted to keep our cookies from getting wet and or smashed.

It was going to be the perfect size for paint brushes or something once I got around to altering it too. :( I wasn't sure she would understand if I had said " but you don't understand I'm a stamper and I need that tin".

[stamplajolla]

Stacy, I understand and I would have let you keep it.:laugh: I get so frustrated when they take my stuff! :angry:

MaryAnn

[stampin stacy]

Thank you Mary Ann, if she only knew what a sacrifice that was. ;)

Of course my son and husband weren't much help either, they just rolled their eyes :eyeroll: and kept saying "Come on lets go!". How could they possibly be worried about some silly ballgame when I was being tortured. :cry:
(:)) ).

[stamplajolla]

Some people just don't get it! :laugh:

MaryAnn