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[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

This is me, I save all the glass jars. Also save the tide pod containers and my wife coffee cans. They all have a use.

[–] howrar 2 points 42 minutes ago

Anything you buy that comes in a bag can be moved into a jar. It saves a lot of space because jars tesselate nicer and can use up vertical space more efficiently. It also encourages you to actually use the things you buy because you've now removed the friction of digging through piles of bags and hoping that the bag you pull out isn't load bearing for the rest of the pile. Opening a jar is also much easier than opening/resealing bags.

We never have enough jars in this household.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I really got hung up on the "reuse" part of reduce, reuse, recycle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

I am both of the people in this image.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Your day will come and it will all be worth it. My day came when the mice arrived. My wife, the one who holds me back, let me loose. Glass jars to the moon! Mice had no chance! I am king again. Brrruhhshahhahaahaha! Cackle cackle evil victory laugh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

The jars....THEY CALL TO ME!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is my partner with jars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Same. Our agreement is that she can keep glass containers, and I can keep old electronics. We keep each other in check lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

You know what grinds my gears? I give someone a jar of my homemade jam, or of honey from my bees, in one of my GOOD jars, and I never see that jar again. One "friend" said she had some jars, did I want them? Yes please! Aaaand they were weird tall skinny jars or tiny sample size jars, all with the labels still on. Straight in the recycling bin. I should have kept them and given her a tiny sample jar of honey instead of the normal pound.

Rant over.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think Rainbow Dash likes where this is going.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago

This is some advanced brain rot

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

That cursed post has forever ruined jars for me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

There's a local store, where you can bring your glass jars and they fill you up with all kinds of dry foods. Since I've started buying there, I'll look in normal stores specifically for products that come in decent-looking jars. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Man, I gotta make the trip to our local unpackaged goods store. One of these days ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Instead of separating grocery stores by Vegetable, Dairy, etc, we should separate them into Dry Goods, Moist Goods, Wet Goods, and Iced Goods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Average Frugal parent

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I just store them in very large jars. I have several of these now. Don't know where to put them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I keep my very large jars full of jars in these massive cylindrical glass containers with lids on. Can't think of the name for them but they do the job.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

That sounds like those Russian dolls where there’s a doll inside a doll inside a doll can’t remember the name lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

Wooden doll-jars?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'm gonna take this moment to be pedantic for the sake of education. Cabinets do not do the act of storing as is suggested by your title. They house. You store.

👽

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

You store.

I read that as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Ha, you are very right. I've slightly edited the title to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You can store so many things in there! Soup blue potion, bugs, a fish, you name it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

If you live in an apartment, you can make your neighbors love you by making garum, an ancient Roman fish sauce, in a jar, indoors, in your apartment!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I don't have space for empty jar storage. Or full jar storage. I wish I did though. I barely have room for dishes. Jars are cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Just look at all these pens and ink! I could write so many things: poetry, history, my deepest secrets, a book that changes the world!"

"So, what are you currently writing?"

"Well, nothing..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

To real. Pretty good chance that when I do want to write something (e.g. birthday cards), my pen is dried up and it's a whole thing to make it write well again ...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Keep em when the goverment collapses they will be very useful for storage of food

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

I'm now using clean peanut butter jars as mini green houses for pots, to help seeds sprout. See! I need to save every single one!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

There's some Albertson's trail mix that I sort of tolerate, but buy lots of because I really like the containers it comes in for storing screws and stuff in the garage.

I think my dad did similar with Yuban coffee because he's got custom built shelves in his shop to hold over a hundred of those old steel cans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Oh god so true. My mother has this disease. Half of the shelves in her kitchen are filled with these empty bottles. And she's stacking up filled jars on the counters! Grrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

No, I need more empty jars! What else should I put in all those neat empty boxes I collected?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Some bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it's a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Most of those jars are perfect containers for weed.

I grow a bunch of weed for personal use and one year I grew so much I ran out of jars. I have probably ~50 or so 16oz mason jars as a result.

That was a good year!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

I blame Ocarina of Time, wherein glass jars are extraordinarily useful and difficult to acquire. Oh, there's also only four of them in existence. Cleaned-out peanut butter jars are basically Blue Eyes White Dragons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

They have potential. They always endup being used. Sometimes, to make better use of space I might swap bigger jars with smaller ones depending on the content. In the storage cabinet, bigger jars can contain smaller ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Walking into The Container Store always makes me feel good about my glass jar collection when I see them charge like $8 to $10 for a single glass jar. Their “luxury acrylic” jars are about half the cost of that… I know that the store only exists to separate rich people from their money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Jars make cute pots for small plants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Just like the Taoism concept of 'Pu', or the un-carved block, being a symbol of pure potential, an empty bottle is also pure potential

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

I'm gonna start throwing some away once I start running out of space! I swear!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Hey keep your hands off my wife

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