I need some ideas for using empty olive oil cans. Most of them are the 3 liter size, rectangular. They are just too pretty to throw away or use for putting old hardware and such in! Once in a while we get little cans from soy sauce, same shape as the olive oil tins, but only about 8" high.

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), December 12, 2000

Answers

I've seen the pretty olive oil cans used as planters for flowers and herbs.

-- Terry (aunt_tm@Hotmail.com), December 12, 2000.

I'm having trouble picturing the size of these cans, but maybe you could use them for desktop items? Envelopes? Are they big enough for folders? Sorting bills? Stuff like that.

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), December 13, 2000.

Make $$ with them! I've seen them at fall fests stuffed with dried flowers, grasses & other things being sold for more than I'd pay for an empty tin full of dead stuff. I'm not into dust collectors around the house, but they were kind of pretty if you like that sort of thing and by the looks of it, a lot of people are.

-- Rose Marie Wild (wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), December 13, 2000.

For those not knowing what these look like, they are simular to the old metal one gallon rectangular gasoline/motoroil cans used before plastic took over. Think Coleman fuel, paint thinner, etc. still comes in them. 3 liter version is slightly smaller than the gallon cans though.

-- Hermit John (hermit@hilltop_homestead.zzn.com), December 13, 2000.

Fill them with water, put the screw cap back on, and they make SPECTACULAR targets for varmint cartridges, such as .22-250, 6mm, even the relatively wimpy .223. Enjoy! GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), December 18, 2000.