Everyone is familiar with the tin box, and I believe that many friends have collected a lot of it at home. For example, many of the tea boxes used to hold tea are made of iron, and when you attend a wedding banquet, many of the candy gift boxes you receive are also made of iron. Not only do these boxes look good, but they are also very sturdy and durable. When the contents are used up and there is an empty tin box left, many friends are reluctant to throw it away and will collect it and put it in the cabinet at home. As a result, more and more boxes are collected, but very few are used. In fact, as long as we use these iron boxes, they can play a lot of roles. Today, I will share with you the wonderful use of a few tin tea boxes, let's find out together!
Trick 1: Acts as an ashtray.
Many male friends have the habit of smoking, and of course you need an ashtray to flick cigarette ash and place cigarette butts. In fact, you don't need to buy an ashtray on purpose, you can use a tin tea box. All we need to do is take a tin box, then prepare a piece of toilet paper, fold the toilet paper to about the size of the tin box, and pad it on the bottom of the tin box. Then, add a little water to it, don't need much, just wet the toilet paper.
Next, we put it directly on the coffee table or computer desk in the living room. When the soot produced when we smoke, we can bounce inside, and after smoking, we can also press the cigarette butt directly on the toilet paper in the box. It works very well as an ashtray. The material of the iron sheet does not have to worry about ignition, and if you pick up a little water in it, you can quickly extinguish the cigarette butt. When not in use, we can close the lid and also avoid the smell of smoke.
Trick 2: Storing needles and threads.
Needles, threads, buttons, etc., are indispensable items for every family, and we all need to use them when we encounter clothes with open threads or buttons falling off. However, these items need to be stored well, otherwise they will be entangled, and there is a certain risk factor in the needle. In fact, to store these items, we can use the tin box to make a storage tool. The method is very simple, we prepare a scouring pad first, and then glue the scouring pad to the back of the lid of the tin box with double-sided tape. If your box is small, you can cut the scouring pad to about the size of the lid and stick it to it. After gluing, we can insert all the needles on it for storage, which is not only not easy to fall, but also neat and very convenient to take.
For threads of various colors, as well as other items such as buttons, we can choose to store it in a box. Finally, we put the lid back on it and put it in the drawer. This method of storing needles and threads in a tin tea box is simple and easy to use.
Trick 3: Needle threading artifact.
In addition to using the tin box to store needles and threads, we can also make a needle-threading artifact on this basis, which can easily solve the problem of needle-threading for some elderly people or people with poor eyesight. We first tear off a filament from the broom at home, then fold the filament in half and press it a little more in half, so that a sharp corner will be formed. Next, we use adhesive tape to glue the folded broom wire to the edge of the box.
Next, we can thread the needle. As long as the tip of the broom wire is aligned with the eye of the needle, the broom wire is small and hard, so it can easily pass through the eye of the needle.
Then we thread the thread through the middle of the top of the broom wire.
Finally, we pull the needle out of the broom wire, so that the thread that was originally worn in the middle of the broom wire is carried through the eye of the needle, and the thread is threaded very easily.
Trick 4: Serve as a mosquito coil bracket.
In the mosquito-infested summer, mosquito coils are an indispensable mosquito repellent artifact. Although it is said that the mosquito coils we buy home will have a mosquito coil stand, or mosquito coil plate. But what if there are too many mosquito coils and the mosquito coil tray or mosquito coil stand is not enough? Let's take a wire first, and then bend the wire and fold it into the shape of an M. Then put it on a tin box.
When we need to use mosquito coils, we can pass the wire through the middle of the lit mosquito coil so that the mosquito coil hangs on the wire. Since this box is made of metal, it is durable and fireproof, and the box has depth, which can gather a lot of mosquito coil ash, so that we don't need to pour incense ash frequently. If today's article is helpful to you, then click a follow, a like, and thank you for your support.