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Little jars are great to hold screws when you need to take something apart to work on it.
I swapped to egg cartons. Many attached “compartments” in sequence make them convenient. As a bonus, it used to piss off my parents, who were incapable of organizing their projects, because egg cartons look silly.
I do the same but with ice trays
And many ice trays are stackable.
Open egg cartons are stackable!
WHAT?!?
Over a half century on this planet and TIL.
Most packaging is stackable open or closed or both because it has to be efficient at one point. There are still dozens of sizes and standards for cylindrical steel cans though, very annoying when you have a lot of different ones and some are imported, so they're almost exactly the same size as some of your local ones but won't stack because the lips are the wrong size.
My issue is that I can't use jars for a purpose like that unless I have enough matching little jars.
If I have a pile of screws with 20 different types of screws, I will need 20 identical jars before I use them to hold that pile of screws.
Now I'll have a loose pile of screws and a pile of 30+ mismatching jars awaiting a final purpose.
Dabs. You should put dabs in them. <3
Haha I don’t partake nowadays but I could definitely see these little jars being perfect for that! <3
If you keep dabs in a clear glass container, make sure you store it somewhere dark (preferably in your fridge). I believe UV exposure accelerates cannabinoid decomposition.
I use em for toiletries mostly. Like lotion, hair product, facial cleanser, makeup remover, etc. Very useful for traveling👍🏼
There is a point in life where you can't just throw out a good jar or a good box. That threshold was 35 years old for me 😅
Hordes is the wrong word, as I'm constantly utilizing those little fuckers. Great capsules for derusting small metal parts in vinegar for a few days. Single-piece jar caps turned upside down are great for keeping track of groups of screws and other small hardware during builds.
You see cute little jar. I see hillbilly shot glass. We are not the same.
You see hillbilly shot glass. I'm thinking it's begging for a nice nug of cannabis. We aren't all that different.
I have so many little glass jars from the weed dispensary...
I have that exact same jar. It's perfect for my ground saffron.
Please, for the love of God! Please ground your spices right before use. I learned this with black pepper.
Omg yes, my partner and I have a real problem keeping jars of all sorts. Every now and then I have to empty a cabinet or two full of them into the recycling when my partner isn't looking.
I don't want to talk about it 🙈
i hoard glass containers but not plastic…
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Yesss! I order from Etsy shops, enamel pin creators, and other independent artists super often and they always pack everything soooo cute. I have a shelf in one of my cabinets with all their little baggies and boxes that I use to store and organize various things. They are so handy!
I have been collecting glass jars and have been putting them to use!
Whenever I get something in a plastic container, I transfer them over to my glass jars if it makes sense (For example, multivitamins).
I'm planing to but some glass bottles for "on the go" moisturizer, spray, co-wash, etc.
I have an embarrassing number of ziploc baggies. 😬
Me too wink wink
If you have/wear silver jewelry, store it in airtight jars/containers so it doesn't tarnish when you're not wearing it.
🥈🫙😎
I take lunches to work and use such containers for salad dressings.
- use them to incubate seeds
- separate coins
- little bits of hardware
i save mine to organize different polished stones
Perfect for prime bud
They're good for spices! Penzeys sends spices in packets (or cute jars) so all go into little jars to store easier!
Spice rack!
I had about 20 of these and put spices in them. Then I added neodymium magnets on the lids and placed them in my fridge.
Mine are filled with cat nails and fur and whiskers
You win, I thought I was weird using mine for small oil infusions. I hesitate to ask, but how and why the nails?
Phylactery Jar! It keeps our cats alive forever. We randomly find their nails all around the house.
My krypronite... I got a cheese advent calendar with a bunch of teeny tiny jars of pickle... I have yet to find a use for them but i'm certain they will be useful.
At christmas a supermarket here had fancy pate in little tiny kilner jars, after christmas they all got reduced to like, pennies, so i bought a ton of them. Currently using them to make little chia seed desserts.
If you use fountain pens, you can clean them up in a little jar.
This thread might be worth saving
I make hot sauce and often fill however many of these I have accumulated and give them away. Funny story: a friend really, really liked it so for the last batch they got a 2L bottle.
I horde little cardboard boxes
Lidded corks. Like from whiskey or sherry. Perfect for popping onto an open wine bottle. Or for the booze that came with a screw top. Just have to keep enough different sizes to always find a fit. So every serving comes with that satisfying "Mpop!" sound. I can't throw them away. I suppose if I kept enough little jars I could have a cork inside each one.
Looks like a nice little condiment cup to me
I also hoard these things, but I put them to use for homemade chili oil, jams and jellies, and all kinds of other stuff. But there is a constant rotating supply of empty ones on my counter, because I hoard more of them than I can use. Sometimes I'll make a bunch of hot sauce or something and give them out to friends just to get rid of the bottles.
Keep watching episodes of hoarders, eventually you will see the cost of keeping things you don't need.
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