I keep my flower head pins - aligned - on a magnetic pincushion for quilting. Right now my DGD has over half of them with "her" machine - I may have to arm-wrestle her to get them back...
I also have a box of long thin pins for sewing and a box of regular pins for my 4-Hers to use. And I have a push-type container that I used to use with the fine pins when I did mostly sewing. If I ever go back to doing a lot of sewing I will use it again. It nicely pops one pin at a time - just have to make sure the heads are "up" when I put pins back. I think that's where I get the having the heads aligned on the magnetic one come from.
And when I'm in "work" mode I have a magnetic dish to catch pins and needles and sewing machine feet, paper clips, tacks....