The ordinary ones eg M&S that word Christmas tins probably get filled with stuff eg cakes for a sale and then I 'forget' to pick them up.
The smaller pretty ones I use for holding such things as scissors, tape, pins, crochet hooks, other craft stuff. Crayons, pencils for the DGC Sindy bits and bobs -- ditto -- DGC
It's the jars which sit on a shelf waiting to be filled that annoy DH!
I use them as pretty containers / boxes for gifts to give to family, Fill them with an assortment of things, usually in a theme, for example gave my daughter small soaps and little bath scent blocks, added a natural sponge and a little candle. Another time I put in a variety of crafting notions, ribbons, threads and so on. But some I just keep and use myself for my own crafting bits and bobs.
I have a lot of really pretty tins from hampers my son sends me (at that unmentionable time of year) and I’m loathe to get rid of them they’ve had teas, sweets, drinking chocolate etc. I’ve tried storing dry goods but I either forget what’s in them, no labels, or they aren’t very airtight.
Any ideas apart from them sitting a kitchen shelf? They really are very pretty.