Tin Band-Aid Boxes.

[moosehead]

Ahh, the good old days... I must be getting old!
I too remember the tin Band-Aid Boxes, and the Mercurochrome (it hurt less than iodone, don't ya know. Another good, albeit somber use for those boxes, pet burials. In the backyard of the house I grew up in, there are a few of those old tin Band-Aid boxes buried with the remains of 3 hamsters and 1 box turtle.
Jim

 

[sanglant]

if you watch close walmart still has the band-aid tins on occasion

 

[cracked butt]

I used them for holding nightcrawlers and a few spare hooks and splitshots when fishing.

They had their uses, but for most things I prefer the miracle space-age containers that are zip-locks.

 

[Simms65]

Novelty pirate Band-aids still come in tins.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

At 40, I'm old enough to remember tin band aid boxes, and the string in the band aid wrapper. Don't have any but I think my parents have one left.

I have on my desk a Baccarat cigar tin which is 4.25" long x 2.25" wide x 1" tall. It held 8 "Connies." About the size of a tin band aid box but it hinges open along one long side.

I need to pick up another one. Then, I can fill them with stuff like a Victorinox Classic, some twine, safety pins, and even a few band aids. Then I can give them to my little girls.

Thanks again for sharing, Steve.

 

[.cheese.]

I remember those. It's been a while though.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I too remember the tin Band-Aid Boxes, and the Mercurochrome (it hurt less than iodone, don't ya know.

And hurt WAY less than Merthiolate!

 

[XDKingslayer]

I used the tin bandaid cans to hold my toilet paper when I was hunting. Put the bumwad in a sandwich bag then put it in the tin can. Made it easy to find in my pack.

and the string in the band aid wrapper.

THOSE I do not miss. They always did the same thing. You had your thumb or pointer finger on your right hand damn near cut off, either of which was necessary to pull the flippin' string to begin with. So you'd try using your left hand (if you're right handed) and you'd end up with nothing but a string or the string would rip the package halfway open then pull out...

 

[bogie]

Ah... and what I miss already, and it isn't even dead yet...

Film cans... The metal ones were nice, but the little plastic jobbies were great for small parts.

Thing is, as I get older, I find I have an ample supply of old prescription bottles...

 

[James T Thomas]

nastyalgia

Before the past becomes dim...

This brings to mind: the tin of aspirin, the small, wooden match box, tooth powder, pocket combs with protective sheath, shoe laces that do not fray for months on end, undershirts with neck collars that last, single and double edged razor blades, my wife adds the large size hair curlers,
the handkerchief, and way far from the subject; except it too is impossible to find, is the lifetime durable manual geared can opener!

Much of today is new and improved, however, some things are just hard to improve on.

 

[CajunBass]

I too remember those tin band-aid boxes. They held a lot of fishing tackle in my youth, when I was "prowling that old pond" as mother called it. She was convinced that I would "get hit by a truck," "bit by a snake" or "drowned to death in that old pond." Somehow or other, I managed to avoid all three fates.

Then for years I used Skoal Bandit cans for all that little stuff. Plastic boxes that snapped tight shut. Not as nostalgic as Band-Aid boxes, but I seldom threw one away. If I didn't need it someone else would.

Then when I quit dipping I thought I'd lost my source of neat storage boxes and cans. Then I got an air rifle. Did you know that Daisy puts air rifle pellets in the neatest little screw top, "tin can?" About the size of a Skoal can, but metal with a screw top. Getchaself some.

 

[arthurcw]

I too remember the tin Band-Aid Boxes, and the Mercurochrome (it hurt less than iodone, don't ya know.

And hurt WAY less than Merthiolate!

I haven't thought of Monkey Blood in years!

*sniff*

 

[pbearperry]

I miss those tin boxes too,but I really miss the old aluminum ice cube trays that had the handle to break them up and dump them out.I hate the plastic ones.

 

[Husker1911]

And hurt WAY less than Merthiolate!

Man, when Mom daubed that stuff, we'd be puckered and blow like hell on the cut, to slightly alleviate the sting!

I've fond memories of accompanying my older brother, on special winter afternoons, to the local pond to cut some ice with an axe. When he had a couple big bushel baskets full (remember bushel baskets?), we'd return home and Dad would crank the ice cream maker handle, and the ice was placed, in chunks, around the perimeter of the device. Salt was sprinkled onto the ice, to increase the melting.

Yum, home-made ice cream the old-fashioned method!

 

[sixgunner455]

Quote:
I too remember the tin Band-Aid Boxes, and the Mercurochrome (it hurt less than iodone, don't ya know.

And hurt WAY less than Merthiolate!

No, mom, no!! AAAAAHHHH!!!

Hated that stuff.

 

[pingpingping]

I think what sm is trying to say is that as goes the band-aid box, so goes the moral fabric of our society. I could be wrong.