"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> "zxcvbob" > wrote
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>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> Not long ago Cathy put up a survey, do you save containers.
>>> Not me, brings back memories of my mother hoarding those
>>> cruddy margarine tubs.
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>> I save peanut butter jars (for bullets), and coffee cans (for nuts &
>> bolts and cartridge brass and stuff.) I may have enough coffee cans
>> now... I've actually thrown a few out recently.
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>> I used to save margarine tubs and mayonnaise jars (I used the mayo jars
>> for canning) but have recently thrown away or recycled most of them. My
>> nature is to hoard things, but I'm working on that; you'd think I lived
>> during The Depression.

When I was at Costco last week I bought Imperial sharp cheddar cheese to
make cheese straws. Other years I've been able to buy them in twos; this
year they were in threes. Anywa, made two batches of the straws and saved
the containers. I have no idea why. Maybe because it's getting close to
xmas, and they might come in handy for something. If I don't use them by
January, I'll chuck them. Honest! e.