Iowahippiechick

1. Containers or canisters in the kitchen - Large ones are useful for holding flour or sugar.  And they can also hold wooden spoons and utensils.  Smaller ones can hold tea bags, coffee, dried beans, matches, etc.
2. Containers for office use - Mayonnaise size jars make terrific pencil/pen holders.   Baby food size work for paper clips and rubber bands.
3. As decorative objects - I once filled an antique glass jar with potpourri and added a lamp kit to the lid … turning it into an interesting lamp.  I’ve also layered different dried beans in quart canning jars to display in my kitchen.
4. For use in the bathroom - They can hold Q-tips, cotton balls and Epsom salts.
5. To hold homemade gifts - Play dough for the kids.  Bean soup mixes. And dry ingredients for cookies or cakes.
6. For kid items - Terrific for craft items … such as glue, glitter, crayons, ribbon, and stickers.
7. Family or individual banks -  They make an easy container to toss change into.  You can individualize them for different savings goals.
8. Food - We have used the large ones to store bagged dried beans, rice, brown sugar, powdered sugar, and other bagged or bulk purchased food items.
9. Gratitude - Every Thanksgiving we write what we are grateful for and put the papers in our gratitude jar.  Then we take turns pulling out the collected slips of paper to read.
10. Seed Storage - In the fall (after I’ve dried the seeds I’ve collected from my garden) I store them in small glass jars.
11. Keepsakes - I’ve saved ticket stubs, greeting cards, and other small items in them.
12. Gag Gift - I read this one somewhere (don’t remember where) but it was funny.  After coming back from vacation, label them warm air from “?” or cold air from “?”  Silly I know … but funny nonetheless!
13. Nature collections - When my boys were young we would have multiple jars filled with their collections.  One would have the rocks they collected.  Another may have had the bugs they were brave enough to pick up.  Still another had their “sticks” or acorns that were precious to them.

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