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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Re-Purpose Glass Jars for your Pantry, DIY




I love the mason jar craze, however I want to save my jars for canning peaches. We have a peach tree and Dear Hubby loved it when I learned how to can them (future post). I still wanted to use jars in my pantry and I have come up with an alternative that I really like.

On occasion I purchase jars of fruit from our local discount grocery store. Because of the measurement on the sides I liked them and decided to use these instead of my mason jars. However they come with tin lids that are just ordinary to look at. But while looking for something else I spotted these and wondered? I got an idea...a wonderfully nifty idea... I purchased them to see if they would fit.


They do! These are white plastic lids from Ball. You can purchase them just about anywhere canning supplies are sold. They come in a pack of 8 for a reasonable price and you can get them in regular or wide mouth size. Once I chose what pantry items I wanted in each jar I labeled them with letter stickers from my scrapbook stash.

I just love them! What do you think?

10 comments:

  1. Very cool, I do the same thing with my spices. - stretchingittotravel

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  2. I I love it! I could totally use to do this with my 10000 mason jar sitting around for the next canning season. Great idea

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  3. They are neat, aren't they. And quite useful. Thanks for stopping by ladies! I appreciate it!

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  4. And thanks for the comment too!

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  5. Great idea--the labels look really nice!

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    1. Thank you, wasn't sure what I was going to use at first. But then it dawned on me how simple I like things to be. And the scrapbook stickers were so easy to add. Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment!

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  6. Great idea! I have such an odd assortment of different shapes and sizes of glass jars that I've saved to repurpose and replacing their individual lids with something more uniform like the Ball plastic lids would go a long way to making them look more like a cohesive (and pretty!) set. Thanks for sharing this idea!

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    1. Yes I do agree the white lid makes them uniform and pretty. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

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