"Cshenk" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" wrote
>
>> 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.
>
> Hi Nancy! I can give you a use for the small ones (not sure of the Jam
> jar size). If you have a garage with a work bench, aint it a pain to find
> a neat way to store all them little nails and such? Ours has an overhead
> shelf. We nailed the lids of baby jars up there neatly, fill with them
> 'little bits' and screw them to the lids. Now we can easily see what we
> need yet its neatly out of the way.

Ha, so funny, that's the hint I thought was so clever. I do have
a gazillion things like that to store, it'll probably wind up in my
tool box.

> Since I hate waste and filling landfill uselessly, I reuse any suitable
> sized jar instead of purchasing plastic keepers. Jars of soup go to
> neighbors in them, stuff like that.

Yeah, most of my jars go to recycling. It gets to be too much
trying to save everything, for me.

nancy