While shopping today, I noticed the Easter and Valentine’s day candies are out already and while poking around I saw the above Altoids tin. It holds 2.29 oz of mints as opposed to the usual 1.75oz in a regular tin. How long have these been out? Have these been out for years and I just never noticed them or are they new this year? I see some places online have them for sale, but the Altoids website makes no mention of them (that I could find).

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Things to do with Altoids tins

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• Junk Food Blog posts about new Cactus Mint Gum.
• Slashfood post about a chocolate keyboard and chocolate Band-Aids (I saw the chocolate Band-Aids the other day while shopping).
• WayAwesome.com does a quick review of Hershey’s Mint Kisses.
• Junk Food Blog posts about new Too Tarts Dream Chews.
• Slashfood post about chocolate cheese slices
• Junk Food Blog posts about Altoids Mango Sours.

Did you ever wonder what you could do with all those empty Altoids tins you have collected? Me neither, but evidently others have contemplated this for us.

Here is a list of 94 funny/wacky things to do with Altoids tins.

Here are some more things you can make/do with them:
(Last update: 09/14/07)

• Altoids robot
• Altoids tin pocket thumb piano
• YBox – turn your TV into an internet channel
• 4 x AA USB Altoids Battery
• Altoids headphone amp
• Storage for Nintendo DS cartridges
• MintyBoost! – Small battery-powered USB charger
• Altoids Hacks Flickr Pool
• LED Flashlight (via BoingBoing)
• Pintoid (a pinhole camera)
• 9v USB Charger
• MP3 Player
• Designer Boxes
• iPod nano dock
• Survival kit
• PSP UMD case
• ipod battery pack
• Zen micro car mount
• Travel kit
• Minty mouse
• Domino thingy
• Hands-free tunes
• Altoids tin can video camera mount
• Color Organ
• Stereo microphone in a (non-Altoids) mint tin
• Another survival kit
• Altoids scrapbook tin
• Altoids ROMP(Random Oscillating Magnetnetic Pendulum)

If you know of some more, tell us in the comments!

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