http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew_moss/tags/label/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:29:37 -0800 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:29:37 -0800 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2294/buddyicons/22321700@N07.jpg?1225813680#22321700@N07 http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew_moss/tags/label/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew_moss/4209399652/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/matthew_moss/">matthew_moss</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew_moss/4209399652/" title="Organizing with Altoids Tins"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2750/4209399652_0eb3bd9ef3_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Organizing with Altoids Tins" /></a></p> <p>Though I haven't had any in a long while, I'm a big fan of Altoids and went through a lot of tins. I've kept many of them for a long while, using some of them to hold board game components or the occasional desk bits.<br /> <br /> But recently, as I was organizing my desk, I happened to find a stash of my tins. I found they stacked nice vertically (so they don't slide about) and the edge is just wide enough for a label (these printed from a brother P-touch labeler).<br /> <br /> With all these (and room for a few more below the buttons), my desk drawer is so much neater and easier to find stuff.<br /> <br /> NOTE: I used to store smaller batteries (AAA, AA, 9V, etc.) in these tins as well. Bad idea: don't do that. You could short the batteries. While unlikely to happen with most batteries, I opened one tin to find several AA batteries corroding, and another tin was actually warm because two 9V batteries inside were shorting, generating heat and swelling. So... no batteries!</p> Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:29:37 -0800 2009-12-23T12:23:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (matthew_moss) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/4209399652 Organizing with Altoids Tins <p>Though I haven't had any in a long while, I'm a big fan of Altoids and went through a lot of tins. I've kept many of them for a long while, using some of them to hold board game components or the occasional desk bits.<br /> <br /> But recently, as I was organizing my desk, I happened to find a stash of my tins. I found they stacked nice vertically (so they don't slide about) and the edge is just wide enough for a label (these printed from a brother P-touch labeler).<br /> <br /> With all these (and room for a few more below the buttons), my desk drawer is so much neater and easier to find stuff.<br /> <br /> NOTE: I used to store smaller batteries (AAA, AA, 9V, etc.) in these tins as well. Bad idea: don't do that. You could short the batteries. While unlikely to happen with most batteries, I opened one tin to find several AA batteries corroding, and another tin was actually warm because two 9V batteries inside were shorting, generating heat and swelling. So... no batteries!</p> matthew_moss desk label container drawer labels altoids organization containers organize http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en