He threw my beautiful cake tin away!!

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My daughter bought me a gorgeous cake tin for Christmas and so I filled it with stollen and other Christmas treats.

I came home from work earlier, made a cup of tea and went to get a piece of stollen and the tin was no where to be found. Husband came home and I asked him where was the tin - in the bin he said!!

Apparently he thought the tin was a tin that came with the stollen and once empty would go in the bin! So he’d bunged it into the bin where it’s git a bit dented and looks a bit shit as the lid is bent.

Hes remorseful but absolutely thinks that the tin was a single use item. What a fucking Idiot!

He has ordered me a new one as DD told him where she got it from as I was raging but who throws cake tins away!!

AIBU, is it really such an easy mistake to make????

Thank you for the clarification. Looking for a square tin for my crackers😀

This made me giggle. Mine are in a rectangular tin from the chinese supermarket and i have a small black rectangular tin from m & s that was a xmas gift tin containing crackers.

I got a lovely new tin this year from la sablesienne. They also have a lovely "chat blanc" tin i am coveting.

I want a tin filled with stollen now.

Probably not the best thread to bring this up, but I really dislike tins.
Awkward to open, dubious to clean, and I don't know what to put in them other than sewing kit.

Probably not to be married to such a twat!

He's a keeper!!

Washed in hot dish water. Rinsed in boiling water.

shortbread
other biscuts
cake.
crackers
sweets

sewing stuff
gift tags
ribbon

Growing up, one of the old HUGE Quality Street tins was our 'first aid' tin. 🥰

Clearly from all the comments, cake tins are a thing and he should have seen you got it for Christmas and know you like tins.

i would have thrown it away. I thought maybe you meant what you bake a cake in, but a storage tin, I got no idea.

I mean at least he’s replacing it. That shows a good amount of contrition.

I had an exh who used to bin things that were clearly being used/ wanted.

Once he threw away some bath items that I was deliberately using slowly
over time as they were so nice. Because he didn’t think they were being used quickly enough 🙄 He’s also thrown away lovely photos of the DC that were expensive - I don’t normally buy photos at attractions but these were really nice.

Also, he knew I liked to keep gift bags, bottle bags and the like and would deliberately rip the up before binning so that I couldn’t!

@Purplebunnie the cat tin was a gift from my brother some while ago and made it into the final pack ! It's by a well known illustrator whose name escapes me at the mo. But absolutely cannot keep crackers in a round tin, imo. I think that would actually drive me mad 🤭

@Yourcousinrachel I am coveting that tin.....and now craving a langue de chat biccy. Chinese supermarkets do indeed have very good tins. goes online to search

Totally unacceptable behaviour.

I had a beautiful panetonne tin from John Lewis featuring pomegranates and my baby used it as a drum and got it dented and ruined.

No prizes for guessing who gave it to the baby to play with in the first place...

I have a Swizzles sweet tin as a medicine tin ( my kids are old enough not to think anything in there is actual sweets!)

I’d be so pissed off if someone threw away any of my lovely tins from tea, fudge, oxo or M & S merry munch!

I don't even own a cake tin - they were binned years ago.

His head on a stick

Who throws tins in the bin? That's odd. You'd re use a tin or give it to charity or something. Unless its broken.
Is he usually that wasteful?

The tins (I had two that fit inside one another) were bought empty because they had a lovely design and fitted with the colours of the kitchen. DH wouldn’t have remembered me opening them because to be honest, Christmas morning was a carnage of opening presents amongst the family and he has the memory of a goldfish at 66.

I have been known to throw tins away before, ones that had a big highland cow on the front for shortbread for example but these are lovely round and deep cake tins!

He’s just a dope. And they did go in the recycling bag but as he’s got an obsession for squeezing as much stuff into a bag as possible it was a bit bent. To be fair he did go straight onto the website and arranged a click and collect to get more today.

He genuinely thought they were something disposable! This is a man that loves to remove any surplus packaging from everything as soon as it hits the house. Toothpaste cartons are removed, aerosol cans have their lids removed toilet rolls are unpacked - so he can squeeze as much into a recycling bag as possible.

Would love photos of more interestingly decorated and shaped tins.
Just realised I don't have enough tins in my life.
Also, a link to the tin being repurchased would be appreciated

I am glad he ordered you some more but truthfully my first thought was the same as a few other posters. He didn't think the tins were one use, he simply wanted to hide the fact he'd eaten all the cake.

The drip feed that you’ve thrown what others might consider to be nice tins out before changes the situation. How’s he supposed to know which tins are for keeping and which for recycling unless you make it clear? I wouldn’t, we don’t keep tins that things have come in as a rule as we don’t have unlimited space to keep them.

Why not get it out of the bin and give it a good wash? It’ll be fine.

This the literal definition of a first world issue.

Mine had the great audacity to donate an empty hamper to a friend organising a raffle prize ... I love a hamper and have a collection of them (enough for a teddy bears' picnic frankly) but now I need to be on the lookout for two more (one to replace the one he donated, and another as a fine to punish him). I could be pleased he was supporting the charity raffle with a prize but would rather he had donated a bottle of two of Whisky.

Agreed! Even before the fact that you’d thrown away the cow tin, I thought this was an utter non-issue - he’s ordered replacements (ooh do they come filled with bonus extra stollen?! Even better!) so this is a pointless post.

I suppose we’re all different I would of binned it ( in the recycling) to me it’s no different than throwing away an empty celebrations tub