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Title: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: tim on August 03, 2007, 06:16:12
........but DON'T unwrap your roll of twine & end up with a tangled mess.

Just stick your finger in the top!
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: saddad on August 03, 2007, 09:45:47
It still collapses into a tangled mess after you've used half of it Tim!
:-\
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: Palustris on August 03, 2007, 09:52:42
Put it in a jar with a lid, in which you have drilled a hole. feed the string through the lid and bingo, no tangles, no collapse and dry string!
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: helenruss on August 03, 2007, 11:43:51
Im drilling a hole in a tin lid as we speak   ;D
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 03, 2007, 12:01:04
You can use a nail, but hammer from the underside of the lid, so any sharp edges go our and don't affect the string.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: quizzical1 on August 03, 2007, 12:48:03
Or alternatively, buy it already in a tin with a cutter built in.

I think we got ours from Poundland.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: RobinOfTheHood on August 03, 2007, 15:03:29
Quote from: quizzical1 on August 03, 2007, 12:48:03
Or alternatively, buy it already in a tin with a cutter built in.

I think we got ours from Poundland.

How much did it cost?   ;D
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: markfield rover on August 03, 2007, 15:09:42
Illy coffee cans are very good as they have a plastic lid .Coffees not bad either.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: asbean on August 03, 2007, 15:22:48
Quote from: markfield rover on August 03, 2007, 15:09:42
Illy coffee cans are very good as they have a plastic lid .Coffees not bad either.

You are just showing off that you like the best coffee in the world  :P :P :P :P :P
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: markfield rover on August 03, 2007, 15:26:35
Yes, but with a free twine dispenser, win,win.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: tim on August 03, 2007, 15:56:39
My expensive wrapping is waterproof, Eric!

We do have a hand painted tin with a hole in the top but that's been 'borrowed'.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: Tee Gee on August 03, 2007, 17:16:23
I supplement the plastic container yours is in Tim by sticking it tightly in a plastic bag with the end of the twine sticking out and just put a twist tie or a piece of insulation tape around the neck of the bag to keep it closed.

Glass jars and me don't go together............I'm too clumsy..........soft ball is more my game ;D
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: tim on August 03, 2007, 17:16:43
Forgot to say that I can't fit a tin in my pocket.
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: Tee Gee on August 03, 2007, 17:20:53
I see you have got abreast of things Tim  ::) ;D
Title: Re: Teaching my Grandmother, perhaps...........
Post by: tim on August 03, 2007, 18:00:35
Nice one!