"Nancy Young" wrote
> "Cshenk" wrote

>> 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.

I think we saw that one somplace with a close use, and made it up with all
the baby jars we had when Charlotte was that age. Works and we are looking
for a friend now with a baby food jar load to glom onto <grin>. Our renters
disappeared most of the jars we had screwed up there. 7 on each side, and
20 across <g>. We kinda grew the idea as we used it.

Big-ish plastic Jiffy peanutbutter jars along the back held candlemaking
wicks and dyes. Along the sides were various bolts and nuts. Front was
nails and whatnot. Just unscrew what you need then put it back up. Much
easier to find than hunting the bottom of a toolbox.

>> 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.

Oh sure, we dont save everthing either once we have a load but as we just
got here, we are still saving them all. I'm actually buying some sizes of
foods with reuse of the jar in mind at this stage.