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What do you use Pringles cans for that makes them so useful: say you were buying one per week?
by learnstats2 6y ago
What do you use Pringles cans for that makes them so useful: say you were buying one per week?
- sp332 6y agoI can think of more uses if you cut them shorter. Pencil holder, ... ok that's it.
- chongli 6y agoI don’t buy one per week. Maybe a few cans per year. I use them for storing sleeves of soda crackers (they fit perfectly even though the crackers are squares). They’re also good for storing snacks of various kinds, dry spaghetti noodles (or any pasta, really). Pretty much any dry goods that you don’t want crushed are a great fit!
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoCool! I'll have to go out and buy some Pringles, I need those things done. Normally I don't buy Pringles at all, not in decades. Because, honestly, they're the consistency of pasteboard and taste of mostly salt. The bottom rung on the snack ladder. I snack on nothing instead of Pringles if that's the only option. But the can! That seems worthwhile now that you call out its many uses.
- fredophile 6y agoWouldn't it be better to find someone that likes Pringles and take their can when they're done? Buying something you don't enjoy so you can reuse the packaging, that most people throw away, seems like a poor solution.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoYeah but would I store food in a paperboard can that somebody else had grubbed their hands around in? Maybe its not dooable.
- chongli 6y agoThe great thing about the cans is that they're reasonably air-tight. I find if I open a sleeve of soda crackers and then try to close them up and store them in the original box they're pretty much guaranteed to be stale by about half-way through the sleeve. Not so if I store them in a Pringles can. They stay fresh for way longer due to the confined space and decent-sealing lid.
- sundvor 6y agoHow would they go with coffee beans, I wonder!
- zikzak 6y agoZip ties!
- vasco 6y agoDon't all those things come in packaging already? Aren't you just switching one package for another? What's the difference in keeping pasta in the plastic wrapping it comes in?
- t420mom 6y agoWhen I was younger and poorer they made a decent speaker (amplifier? echo chamber?) in a pinch, if you taped an earbud into the open end, facing the bottom of the tube.