Rediscovering The Past

Rediscovering - Vintage Cookie Tins

If you grew up anytime between the 1950s to the 1990's you will remember these sugar cookie tins in which sometimes there were cookies inside but if you went to your Grandmothers house she used it for her sewing box. I remember these tins as being used for my Great Grandmother's sewing box. I'd always open it to see if there were cookies inside more often than not there were sewing supplies inside. But in the rare occasion there were cookies in one of these tins I always preferred the pretzel shaped ones for some reason. It was probably the sugar sprinkled on top of them.

This particular style is what I remember being at my Great Grandmother's house.

Here's what the cookies looked like inside the tin:

And for a cookie tin used while I was growing up my Dad who had worked at a local grocery store chain and had brought home a ton of these particular Toll House Cookie tins in the early 1990's which I still have a few and there are a ton more in the house I grew up in. We used it to store anything and everything oddly enough. lol. I believe they may have had dried cookie mix in them.

What cookie tins or tins in general do you remember from your childhood and what did your Mom or Grandmother use them for?