Got a Jar?

What can I say? I love containers of all kinds. Boxes, jars, bins. I'm a sucker for that stuff. Since I make my own salad dressings, and often things like barbecue sauce, chili crisp and the like, I keep jars. I keep them in the bottom part of my dry sink. Lately though, I don't have any room for more. I remembered reading something from Martha Stewart some time ago. She said you don't need to keep saving jars. 

And I thought, well, I should go through mine to get rid of some. Then I thought I had better get them all out to see just how many I had. The photo above doesn't even show all of them. I found two small bins filled with jars.

Turns our WAY TOO MANY! I'd like to say I was surprised, but when I thought about it, I wasn't. I reuse some sizes more often than others. 

So I sorted through them, choosing the ones I used most often, and then checked they were all clean, had good clean tops and set them aside. I got a trash bag and practically filled it with all the others and brought them outside and put them in the recycle bin.

The remainder now fit perfectly in my small hutch. And henceforth, whenever I empty a jar of anything, I can just throw it away. 

On quilting news I am now hand sewing the binding of the Blitzen quilt and will start on the student bird quilt later this week.