Would You Pay 99p For An Empty Jam Jar!!!

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Plum_Pie wrote: »

I saw a bag of individually wrapped wedge-shaped ice cubes for sale on Waitrose the other day with a slice of lemon in each one...

theres definitely one born every minute, Tescos sell bags of ice cube for 75 p which I find a hoot as they just as well be selling fresh air .If you have a party coming up then ask all your friends and relations to bring a dozen or so ice cubes if possible if you haven't the room to make and store them your self .and use the saved money on an extra bottle of wine instead :beer:
P.S.by the way when I was a little girl in the late 1940s my brothers and I used to knock on the doors of local housewives collecting jam-jars .We then walked abouut three miles to the Robertsons Jam factory just outside catford in London where if they were suitable the warehouse manager would pay 1d each for them .It took awhile to collect a couple of dozen or so and as it was my eldest brothers soap-box he had the biggest share out of the loot .It usually went
John 12d
Davy 9d
me, if I was lucky, and didn't moan about the walk there and back 6d But you could buy a lot of sweets with 6d in those days .it was only 3d to go to the pictures with three pence left over for a Palm Toffee bar that wrecked your teeth but tasted delicious .We were an enterprising little troop in those days .We didin't get pocket money as such but had to work for our coppers My eldest two brothers would go to Lewisham Market late Saturday afternoon and collect as many orange boxes as they could .On Monday nights after school (never Sunday as we had to go to church) they would chop it all up into bundles and we would sell the bundles of wood locally to housewives for firelighters .Everyon had a coal fire in those days . I would help tie the bundles up and many a splinter was stuck in my hands for being careless.But it was a source of income however small. One year my eldest brother surprised me at Christmas ,he made me a dolls house from scraps of wood left over and painted it and my Mum made little curtains for the plastic see-through windows .Toys were very hard to come by after the war so most of my toys were made .The boys salveged everything they could from the local bombsites, and swopped with other boys for things they wanted .My middle brother Davy, now lives in retirement in France in a house that he has completely renovated from the shell of a barn. he never lost his skills of invemtiveness.
My eldest brother John sadly died a few years ago, but I still have some of the toys he made me from well over 50 years ago.

prettypennies

I really like the kilner style jars for storing things as they are infinitely reusable and look so lovely. I managed to get a few at Sainsburys at Easter filled with strawberry and champagne jam reduced to a quid. Mr T sells kilner jars for £1.27. Is there anywhere that can beat this price?

D&DD

I make most of my jam the lazy way in the breadmaker but had trouble locating the small 4 oz jars I like I have quite a stock now but if anyone else needs the small size Tesco are selling their own value mint sauce for 3p a go these are perfect!!
Lakelands do new lids if you aren't keen to reuse them

angie_loves_veg

Plum_Pie wrote: »

I saw a bag of individually wrapped wedge-shaped ice cubes for sale on Waitrose the other day with a slice of lemon in each one...

:eek: but even more incredibly, they work out at 35p each!!!!!:eek:

:rotfl: :rotfl:

larmy16

I love jam jars - well all glass jars. It really pains me to send any of them off for recycling, they seem so beautifully made, but there is a limit as to what you can do with them. I might start collecting them now to offer on Freecycle.

Bobbykins

I make my own jams/chutneys every year for presents but I'm afraid nobody gets a new jar! I recycle all the jars I use throughout the year. Pickles, salsa, dips etc. as there are only 2 of us and we don't each huge quantities of jam/chutney ourselves, my biggest problem is getting hold of small jars for the stuff I want to keep just for us. I've now got around that by asking friends/relatives to save any jars they have from mustard, mint sauce etc. The price I pay them is that they get back a bigger jar filled with something delicious!:A

Bogof_Babe

In my Sainsburys today they were selling jars of Basics curry sauce for 10p each. So you get the jar to re-use, plus the curry sauce. Don't know what it's like as I didn't buy any, but it would have to be truly awful not to be worth 10p. Beat that!

Btw, they are giving out free loo rolls at Sainsburys tomorrow apparently. Pity I went today :rolleyes: .

csarina

You should be careful when re-using the lids from jam jars, if they have the rubber seal in the lid it can encourage mould on the top of the jam, if you use jars with metal lids the lids can be eaten away by vinegar in chutney, its better to use greaseproof paper.

If you use kilner jars, you do not need the rubber seals, they are only for use when you bottle food to make a seal when the fruit is sterilised by boiling or in a water bath.

jackomdj

prettypennies wrote: »

I really like the kilner style jars for storing things as they are infinitely reusable and look so lovely. I managed to get a few at Sainsburys at Easter filled with strawberry and champagne jam reduced to a quid. Mr T sells kilner jars for £1.27. Is there anywhere that can beat this price?

My local Asda had them in at 99p yesterday.

redruby

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

In my Sainsburys today they were selling jars of Basics curry sauce for 10p each. So you get the jar to re-use, plus the curry sauce. Don't know what it's like as I didn't buy any, but it would have to be truly awful not to be worth 10p. Beat that!

Btw, they are giving out free loo rolls at Sainsburys tomorrow apparently. Pity I went today :rolleyes: .

In my local sainsbugs I picked up the value curry sauce for 4p a jar, big jars too, I emptied the curry sauce into freezer bags and froze it, and gave the jars a good wash and airing, I re used the jars for chutney and jam. The curry sauce is ok we had a curry last week from it, waste not want not and all that :money: