Jar Count

[sakon76]

I do canning, and I do estate sales. Sometimes these two habits intersect, usually in the garage of an estate sale where I find a dusty old jar or two. (Twice I've found copious hauls of dusty old jars.) This morning, after dance class, I dragged Wonderful Husband to the sole estate sale within range (I will go to a five-mile radius of my house). In the garage I found four canning jars. As I eyed them, he made noise about how I already have so many. He was correct, so I put three of them (cup jars) back. The wide-mouth quart jar for $.10 I bought.

This afternoon, I pulled all my not-in-use jars out, organized them, and tallied. I have:

2 half-cup jars
43 one-cup jars
4 one-and-a-half-cup jars
36 regular pint jars
5 wide-mouthed pint jars
2 twenty-ounce jars
25 regular quart jars
18 wide-mouthed quart jars

(Total: 135 canning jars.)

6 bail wire pint jars
1 bail wire one-cup jar
1 bail wire spice jar
2 bail wire bottles

Plus whatever I have in the fridge or cupboards holding pickles, jams, soups, and dry ingredients. I should inventory my mother's stock of canning jars as well, and determine if the two of us need to shift any around in either direction. Just as well I passed on those three other jars this morning; I apparently have an abundance of one-cup jars....