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salan

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Jun 3, 2007
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Cheshire
Hi All,
We have just done the weekly shopping at Morrisons. nothing unusual about that. Except that I was looking at a tin of condoms and thinking that the container would make a good little stove. Now how sad is that!!!
Not interested in the contents, just the tin!!!
I know I am married and 50 but that is getting really sad lol
Alan
 
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John Fenna

Lifetime Member & Maker
Oct 7, 2006
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It certainly is!
The condoms would make good elastics for a catapult, water carriers, disposable drybags for camera or phone etc, dust covers for rifle muzzles etc etc....
Though I think there is another use as well......
John (married, 53 years old)
 

sxmolloy

Full Member
Mar 22, 2006
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I think there is a way to light fire with a condom, filling it with water and using it like a magnifying glass, not that I have tried it!

I'm sure I read somewhere that a condom can also be used to keep your tinder dry.
 

gregorach

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 15, 2005
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I found myself wandering around Sainsbury's sizing up tins for a woodgas stove recently... And I have to admit that when I made my pop-can stove from two Red Bull cans, I could only stomach the contents of one of them. ;)
 

Jaysurfer

Settler
Dec 18, 2008
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Somerset, UK
Hi All,
We have just done the weekly shopping at Morrisons. nothing unusual about that. Except that I was looking at a tin of condoms and thinking that the container would make a good little stove. Now how sad is that!!!
Not interested in the contents, just the tin!!!
I know I am married and 50 but that is getting really sad lol
Alan

Tell you what Alan, you buy it and keep the tin and i'll take the contents off you...
Luckily i am young enough to have use for them ;-)

J
 

Paul_B

Bushcrafter through and through
Jul 14, 2008
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At your age Allan its good you still remember what the contents are for!! :D :D :D

It is fun going round supermarkets looking for tins to make stuff out of. I must admit I tent to concentrate on the coffee and powedered milk areas. I'd never have thought to look for condom tins! The last thing you'd want surely is to need a tin opener to get a rubber! Still Alan, its a good sign that you were looking at that shelf, still life in the old dog afterall.

Morrisons you say! Hmmm!
 

g4ghb

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 21, 2005
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:lmao: love it! - however.........

DARN YOU! :aargh4: - now i'll just HAVE to have a look for the tin myself!!!!!!
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I'm a sucker for a nice tin - shame the contents are of little use too! :(
 

tytek

Forager
Dec 25, 2009
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Leeds
I'm going to have to go off to morrison's now to have a look!!!

As for the condoms - I'll give them to my 16yo lad. I can't remember the last time I slipped into one of those disgusting things!!!
 

jonajuna

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Jul 12, 2008
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40 married and ive been sorted by the surgeons knife! ;)

although, even though i do sex ed and related stuff for work, i never knew you could get condoms in a tin! we just get them by the pallet load :eek:
 

Bumpy

Forager
Apr 18, 2008
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Had a very similar experience in the CO-OP yesterday - with a small tin of 3 condoms, and I was also busy considering other uses for the tin (keep tinder dry , cardboard & wax stove etc). The really really sad thing is that I could not justify buying it and it only had 3 in!!!!
Married 20 years this year... actually I might go back and check use by date - might use one this year on wedding anniversary! And I could use another to waterproof my mobile...
 

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