I've used an old Altoids box for years. I only buy the straight pins with the yellow bead on top. Any that I've accumulated by other sources are in a separate Altoid box and I use them when I fold up my fabrics on comic book boards. I've even made 8 sets of alphabet pins using baby bracelet beads and keep them in another separate box. Once the pin gets bent, it gets tossed in the trash. I have magnetic bowls at each end of my quilt frame holding these yellow beaded pins also. I keep 1 Altoid box at my sewing machine, 1 on the cutting table. Once 1 gets full I switch them out until they get full.