This is a great tip I've been using the coffee cans for fertilizer, too. The lids snap tightly to keep everything inside dry. I also use them for compost for the same reason.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam