He threw my beautiful cake tin away!!

[beholdtheidiot]

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????

He’s stollen it and eaten it in his man cave!

its the kind of thing my dh used to do, it was only when I pointed out tins have multiple uses, and buying plastic containers to put screws, bolts, pens etc was daft, when a pretty tin, or even not so pretty tin, will do the job. I have a huge tin I keep wild bird seed in (I think it had a huge cake in it) it’s mouse and squirrel proof, unlike the plastic jobs. He has since seen the light, and now his work shop if full of my posh tins…(he could have used the more boring ones, but it turns out he likes the ‘pretty’ ones too)!

🤣 I have no idea why you have taken such offence but my reply was aimed at a poster who was confused at the lighthearted comment and replies. Some people just hate that type of humour obviously.

Planet would be a far bigger audience than 3 pages so I think read the room works better.

Me too. Everyone in the family last year got Monty Bojangles chocolates in different coloured cat tins because I coveted the tins. Apparently the chocolates were really good too but it was the tins I fell for.

@OldWaveIs it just me??
That made me laugh. I love an old cake or biscuit tin and am still aghast at DM for getting rid of a dark blue one with angels and silver-grey cherubs around the sides- but I get what you’re saying OldWave, so it probably isn’t just you.

I have a basket weakness. But tbf to me, I keep buying them in the hope that one can become a lovely breadbasket with a snowy linen cloth in it, keeping freshly baked rolls warm. Instead they all get filled with vitamins and medicine or rolls of flannels or tat that needs people to come and find it and put it away. I still need a bread basket.

Yes, idiotic, agreed!
Side question - where were said beautiful cake tins from? I need some new ones and want beautiful quality. My mum bought me my last set and she always buys cheap so they have rusted and dented.

So did he finish off the stollen as well?
He was an idiot but at least he’s ordered you some more.

This is a daft thing for him to do, and it seems he really battered it before putting it in the bin for it to be so damaged!
However, he’s accepted fault and ordered you a new one, so I really wouldn’t be that bothered.

Im going to do exactly that today

And it wont be an accident

And I wont be replacing it.

YABU. He made a mistake, apologised and made up for it. Sounds like he's quite a nice husband. I can see it's irritating, yes but hardly rage worthy.

work threw away my nice cake tin which they had recently given me with cake in it, then didn’t replace it 🤬

Dh threw my vintage (looking) teabag tin away that I brought back from holiday because he’d used the last teabag from it. 😢

I have a tin or two, notably a heart shaped one with brightly coloured buttons on it. I use it for my staples stash at school. Another rectangular ’biscuterie’ tin has my reward stamps in it.

I’ve finally emptied some Kilner jars which had sloe gin/flavoured vodkas that didn’t all fit in a standard bottle. I’m moving this year and I’m hoping to have a shelf in the kitchen where I can display them, full of flour/coffee etc. Mum has a very old, huge sweet jar full of buttons that I covet. It’s been used for ’Guess how many are in the jar’ for various school fetes.

I want to see more of your fancy tins. This is one I've kept over the years. The lid has a dent now, but I like it too much to throw it away.

90% of my tins the contents were given away I just wanted the tin!

Thank you for posting a pic of your tin @SparklyGlitterballs. It’s beautiful. ❤️

I love my tins too. If I’ve been given a plastic ‘tin’ of biscuits I take it to a charity shop when I’ve filled it with small items. But proper tin tins I can always find an excuse for keeping.

Sometimes I buy things just for the tins!

Tins matter!

😂😂😂

I have a MUSICAL Fortnums biscuit tin that one of my DDs gave me for my birthday. I have disabled the musical bit because it was a dead giveaway when I just wanted to sneak a quick custard cream - the damn thing would chime out Happy Birthday To You so the whole house would know what I was up to.

It can't do it now.

And this year, I bought baskets to put round the tree with my (adult) kids Christmas presents in - one basket per couple and the basket was part of the gift. It looked lovely. I miss those baskets.

This really made me laugh. We need the laughing emoji back. Thanks for the lolz.

Yes these musical rotating Fortnum’s tins are the bees knees. Biscuit and tin are a double pleasure.

I bought a Fortnum and Mason biscuit tin and DH did the same (you can even get refills which was my plan!)

Lidl do them at Christmas too!