I use mine (and ones I collect from others) for a host of things - charcoal burner (stick lots of cut up willow in the tin, fit the lid, punch a nail hole in the lid, put it on the living room fire, take it off when it stops smoking, plug hole in lid, allow to cool), storing sawdust and candle stubs until I get round to making sawdust/wax fuel blocks, storing dry tinder after I have foraged it around the lanes, storing knife-making bits and bobs, made a raised fire box using some old tent poles (I think...they were wombled) as legs (filled the tin with sand, legs attached with wing nuts)...never enough tins for all the jobs I want them for!