wrote:
> For any of you Canadian home preservers, there's no need to try buying
> your lids in bulk if you have a Dollarama store reasonably close.
> Gerry and I were in town today and she slipped into Dollarama and
> picked up another 20 boxes of Bernardin regular lids (all made in the
> same place as Ball and Kerr, just in a different box). As of today,
> they were still priced at CDN $1.00 for a box of 12. At the current
> rate of exchange, that's the equivalent of USD $0.84 a box.
>
> Ross.

I had not thought of checking the local dollar stores for lids. We must
have a dozen of them in this small city. Might be worth a little looking
around. Thanks for the idea.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 07:33:17 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

wrote:
>> For any of you Canadian home preservers, there's no need to try buying
>> your lids in bulk if you have a Dollarama store reasonably close.
>> Gerry and I were in town today and she slipped into Dollarama and
>> picked up another 20 boxes of Bernardin regular lids (all made in the
>> same place as Ball and Kerr, just in a different box). As of today,
>> they were still priced at CDN $1.00 for a box of 12. At the current
>> rate of exchange, that's the equivalent of USD $0.84 a box.
>>
>> Ross.
>
>I had not thought of checking the local dollar stores for lids. We must
>have a dozen of them in this small city. Might be worth a little looking
>around. Thanks for the idea.


The only one of the many "dollar" stores around here that we've found
to carry lids is the Dollarama (big yellow and green sign). Up until
very recently, there was nothing more than a dollar, some thing were
2fer, 3fer, etc. Now, however, they are starting to up their prices
and there's stuff for multiple dollars. I wouldn't be surprised to see
the Bernardin lids go up somewhat, given that they are priced as high
as $1.99 per box in some other local stores.

Ross.

"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> wrote:
>> For any of you Canadian home preservers, there's no need to try buying
>> your lids in bulk if you have a Dollarama store reasonably close.
>> Gerry and I were in town today and she slipped into Dollarama and
>> picked up another 20 boxes of Bernardin regular lids (all made in the
>> same place as Ball and Kerr, just in a different box). As of today,
>> they were still priced at CDN $1.00 for a box of 12. At the current
>> rate of exchange, that's the equivalent of USD $0.84 a box.
>>
>> Ross.
>
> I had not thought of checking the local dollar stores for lids. We must
> have a dozen of them in this small city. Might be worth a little looking
> around. Thanks for the idea.

The dollar stores in TN don't carry the lids, just the boxes of canning jars
themselves.