pins in a soap tin -old fashioned I know but it works. As you take the pins from the fabric, stick them into the soap. Works great.
I donate or get rid of scraps, fabric I bought and now look at and say WTH!! was I thinking. Bent pins, broken old needles, dull blades, thread strings, old mags-would love to donate but don't have a guild local-plastic that fabric comes wrapped in-save the bags to keep fabric I make into kits together-things that no longer work or are broken and need replacement-the 'must have' that ended up a 'why in the world did I fall for that?'-empty spools.