"Nancy Young" > wrote in
:

> 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.
>

My grandmother used to have a stack of them in her pantry. We used them
for crafts sometimes.

> Since then, things have changed. Now I have 3 jars and nothing
> to put in them. But I'm not tossing them! I have that Gerber baby
> food jar, surely there's a use for that! A Penzeys spice jar. Now,
> a Stonewall Kitchen golden raspberry jam (damn was that stuff good!)
> jar that's joining the jar collection.
>
> I have to start collecting stuff to put into them ...
>

Ellie steals many empty packages to use in her toy kitchen. I'm going to
have to go through and throw out a bunch of things that are getting
really ratty.