I like Candy when he's wrapped in a sweater.

[cyrano]

My standard method for dealing with Altoids is to just let them slowly dissolve in my mouth, economically providing me with that curiously strong flavor for as long a time period as possible. However, with the chocolate coated ones, the biting and the chewing and the mixing makes them far more delicious. Having discovered that, I have already plowed through an entire tin this afternoon.
In other Altoid-related news, for those of you who don't already know, I have the slightly obsessive need to collect one of all the tins. I don't have some of the older ones, but ever since they started printing the tins with the scientific name of the plant on them, I have all the mints (I think) and even one or two of the gums and one of the thin strips. It's pretty much the only reason I bought the giant peppermint tin.
Today I believe I talked to every single person involved in the medical or the insurance industry. I was bounced from the insurance company to the PAMF to the PAMFMH to the insurance company's mental health division to the PAMF RWC to account planning to division accounting to division planning. And at the end of it, I finally have an appointment next Monday to review my meds situation. He's an internal medicine specialist. And so I'm not sure he'll acutally be able to, you know, actually do anything aside from frown thoughtfully and make a referral to somebody not covered by my insurance.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I have more than enough of the regular ginger tins (I keep thinking I should find something useful to do with them--they're sturdy! They're metal!) but I don't think I've seen one of the big citrus.
But please, I encourage you to enjoy the ginger yummy!

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

I use an old tin as a wallet.
I keep a rubber band around my ID, debit card, etc, so I can more easily get them out, and the paper money and change underneath.

My mom *hates* it that my wallet is an old mint tin, but they make really great wallets.
And really, who is going to steal an altoids tin from someone's pocket or purse?

(Though mine is covered in black contact paper, because I got really tired of the cashier at the sandwich place i used to go to several years ago always taking it out of my hands and trying to charge me for a tin of altoids, so mine hasn't really got that camouflage thing.)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I do like the idea of arty Altoid containers, with fabric or paper or whatever and maybe embroidery or drawing, I just have nothing to *put* in them. (:

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

So make them into little shrines. :)

(I'm about to leave work, so I don't have time to fetch links, but google "altoid tin shrine" and you should find some seriously cool pages. Also try "altered altoid tin.")

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's not just that I have nothing to put in them. It's that I am not skilled at art and am not prepared to put the effort into becoming artier. But yeah, I would like to do things like this, or this.

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

The beautiful thing about altered art is that you don't have to actually have any talent.

The secret is to just throw things at a tin, and see what sticks.
(One way to get the paint off is to burn it on a gas stove burner or use a torch.)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Would I want to remove the original paint first? Or just glue/paint/clay/gesso over it?

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

If you leave the paint on, you should sand it well before you gesso or glue, because it can chip.