ChattyCathy > wrote in
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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.
>>
>> 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 ...
>
> Old baby food jars make excellent containers for screws, nuts, bolts
> etc. in the shed /garage/store room (sorry not food related) according
> to DH I chuck old spice jars away - my bad
> I have no idea what a 'Stonewall Kitchen golden raspberry jam jar'
> looks like - but it sounds like it's worth keeping...

My mom uses the glass jars from marinated artichokes (we go through a
case of 12, probably, in a year) for the tool area. She also uses them
for sweing stuff.