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????

It's obvious because stuff in tins is far more expensive - why would you pay twice as much for sweets/cake/ biscuits in a tin if the tin is disposable?

Did he put it in the recycling or general waste bin? That’s what I want to know.

I have two biscuit tins from the fifties that belonged to my mother. She used them for keeping Christmas decorations in. Bit worse for the wear but wouldn't part from them. They are from the days when tins were quite large and would have held at least 6 layers. I also have two old Quality Street tins one is at least 6ins deep maybe more. Those were the days. I used the large quality street tin to bring my ingredients for domestic science to school. It still has the sticker with my name on it. Loved visiting my granny's house who always had some of her baking stored in her tins.

I am with your husband here 🤷🏼‍♀️ he didn’t know, thought it was probably a fancy cake tin that all biscuits come in around Christmas time and chucked it when empty. He’s apologised AND bought you a new one. You are overreacting!

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This is so funny, I know exactly what you mean, and had the same hang up over this just yesterday. No, it must not be round for crackers ( but I’m fine with some things in a round tin, like sweets, and some sorts of cakes, but not all) What is this madness?! Is it something imprinted on us from primitive times? Do crackers in round tins represent a threat?!

Poor guy. He thought he was being helpful by throwing away rubbish. Now he's in trouble. 🤣

They just don't get it, do they?

Now I want to know what the tin looks like.

Ive actually bought an old skool Dymo label maker so I can painstakingly press out retro looking labels and stick them on my tins.

I am now fully ready to be a grandma.

We need to see the tin!

And, usually, not properly airtight.

That’s super silly!
On the other extreme I regularly find empty biscuit / crisp packs in my cupboards as people in my family have carefully placed them back; too much work throwing them away 🙄

I would have put it in recycling once it was finished with.
I cant save every nice looking tin or jar.

Can you list nice tins on Facebook marketplace? I love nice tins.

Sorry you married an idiot, op. Watch out for your other nice things.

Probably from the 1950s and kept in the garage where they store drill bits, screws, nails and, in the rice tin, curtain hooks.

Watch today's Money for Nothing. 😲

Poor bloke is rectifying his mistake. None of us are perfect and we all make stupid mistakes soetimes

You were "raging" after this, really. Get a grip. I hate to say it, but shit like this is why some men end up leaving all the tidying to their wives. They do it, get it "wrong" somehow, never hear the end of it, so never do it again.

Even when the place they put them is less than 2 feet from the bin. Inches in my husband’s case 🤯

I feel bad for you, my husband has thrown an envelope away with a bracelet in not checking the envelope all because I left it on the table and he thought it was empty. What is it with men not checking before binning.

If I was your husband I’d have pretended it had been stollen

@FeralWoman similar not grumpy though surely majestic disdain?

Some tins these days are pretty useless once you open the seal. We do recycle those or give them to a charity that uses them for sewing kits! I just bought my husband a tin for shortbread and it's obvious it's thicker with a better seal. Hopefully he won't be that dimwitted about it — i better keep an eye on it!

Can't understand why he didn't know what gift your daughter got you for Christmas, do you not talk?

As for throwing tins, I don't keep biscuit tins etc, if I bought stollen in a tin I'd throw it when done. So I can see why he did it. Still annoying and glad you're getting a replacement

I think some people are missing the fact that the tin, empty, was OPs gift from her DD. Not the stollen, OP put that in there.

It wasn't packaging OP was saving to reuse because it was pretty - her DH has done the equivalent of throwing away the bread bin because he used the last of the loaf!