De-Christmassing tins

After Christmas I finished up with a whole bunch of chocolate and cookie tins covered in pictures of Santa Claus, Snow men and Christmas messages. The local goodwill stores are also filling up with a few. Now I got no beef with Santa (he and I go back a long way) but Christmas themed musical instruments are a hard sell any time between December 27 and Halloween.

Does anybody have any great ideas how to strip down, jazz up, de-Christmassify or otherwise re-purpose these tins without detempering them too much?

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on January 29, 2018 at 12:03am

You better not pout

You better no cry

You better not shout

I'm tellin' you why

Ghost of Santa Claus is coming to town

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I shall let your imaginations run on what the ghost of Santa could get up to. Almost makes me wish I was back up home so I could finish it off instead of down here staying at a vineyard near the beach.

We will all have to wait another week till I get back to the shed.

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on May 5, 2018 at 8:23pm

So here is the final product. The biggest job was cleaning the remnants of the sticky tape that originally held it shut. It was so persistent I finished up stripping the paint under it because it was easier.

Ghost of Santa still lives but

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on May 6, 2018 at 3:53am

turned out pretty good. I like it

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Permalink Reply by David L. on May 6, 2018 at 1:31am

Seems like a lot of work stripping/sanding - would painting a yellow sun in the top corner, sunglasses on Santa and writing along the botom "Santa's summer holiday uke" work? For ease you could do it as a graffiti with a black marker pen.

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on May 6, 2018 at 3:54am

if anyone find out how well acetone works, please share.

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Permalink Reply by Titch the Clown on May 7, 2018 at 12:33am

On this tin acetone was very good at cleaning off anything except either the paint or the sticky tape residue.

It was a lot of work I reckon next time I will just give Santa a summer holiday only because I live in Australia Christmas is already Summer. But it was a learning experience as they say and I had fun.