On Nov 26, 12:49�pm, "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 ...

I tend to save tall narrow glass jars like Gold's horseradish
bottles, those occupy little shelf space (good for spices), and I
save those flattened glass jars they use for honey for my home made
mustards, and lately I've been hoarding Hellman's mayo jars, the glass
ones... won't be too long they'll all be plastic, I like glass mayo
jars for all sorts of things, dried beans, small soup pasta, and
pickled peppers. I don't save plastic food containers, I rather buy
new... I like the rectangular ones for freezing stuff, those take up
much less freezer space than round ones. Pretty soon nothing will be
packaged in glass, glass jars will become a rarity... even
refrigerasted pickled are now in plastic jars, the famous Gulden's
mustasrd jar is no longer glass, and Stan must be appalled thst Heinz
ketchup no longer comes in glass bottles, I know I am, I hate those
plastic bottles... the glass Heinz ketchup bottle is an icon... I
still remember when the glass Heinz ketchup bottle didn't have a screw
cap, it was corked like a wine bottle, then they came out with a metal
flip top cap with a wire tab. The food world is going to hell in a
hand basket... wtf is a hand basket?