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101 uses for baby jars

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:07 pm
by Annpan
I currently have about 100 of them, I have already used them for..

1. Small jars of Jam for friends to taste our home made stuff
2. sorting nails/ screws into so you can see the contents (a perfect use)

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:12 pm
by the.fee.fairy
3. For homemade lotions
4. homemade bath salts

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:12 pm
by Helsbells
5. for storing sequins, beads, pins, needles, ribbons etc.
6. Storing herbs and spices,
7. part fill with water to make music?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:30 pm
by cir3ngirl
8. To keep and little paint in for touching up round the house

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:37 pm
by Milims
9 For the last few bits of pickled whatever that you can never seem to fit into the last big jar!

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:11 pm
by Silver Ether
Milims wrote:9 For the last few bits of pickled whatever that you can never seem to fit into the last big jar!
can never get the amounts right ... :lol:

10. Make snowdomes with ... ( those things with snow in and you shake them to watch it fall ) :flower:

11 bit long this one. Rainbows in a jar..... salt and coloured chalks.. pop some salt into jar with a piece of chalk... shake shake shake untill salt is the colour you want. Use second jar to layer salt in .. repeat the shaking bit with more salt and a different colour chalk. make sure the second jar is very full before puttin on the lid so the salt stays in layers and not all mixed up ... keeps the kids busy when it rains :roll:

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:53 pm
by Thomzo
12. If they are the tall, thin variety you can use them as carpet skittles. Line up 9 of them in a diamond and then roll a soft ball at them to knock them over. Do it on the carpet so they don't break.

13. Miniature vases.

Zoe

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:59 pm
by Clara
14. Put tealights in ´em, then the jar in a white or coloured paper bag - saw this at BGG a couple of years ago, looked really pretty...

The downside of baby-led weaning, no jars here.....

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:55 pm
by the.fee.fairy
I saw it there last year, and it looked almost magical!

15. Puree baby food and use them to take it out for days out.

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:00 pm
by Silver Ether
16 ... paint them with glass paint ... and put tea light inside .... I would have thought the paper bag a tad dangerouse... ...

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:48 am
by possum
Store babies in them :) :lol:



(sorry I'll get me coat)

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:17 pm
by Cornelian
17. they're really useful to store pins, as well those fiddly little tops for my sauce bottles.

PS Possum - I used to work in a children's hospital. In the bowels of this hospital (the mortuary store rooms) they had large jars filled with deformed babies that had been collected in Victorian times. It was an ... unsettling ... place to be. :(

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:17 pm
by Silver Ether
Cornelian wrote:17. they're really useful to store pins, as well those fiddly little tops for my sauce bottles.

PS Possum - I used to work in a children's hospital. In the bowels of this hospital (the mortuary store rooms) they had large jars filled with deformed babies that had been collected in Victorian times. It was an ... unsettling ... place to be. :(
:cry: :cry: :cry:

yes but it was about learning ... poor little souls

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:11 am
by cat
18. keep one to save the baby's milk teeth in when he starts to loose them!

19. put small amounts of creams, cleansers, shampoo etc in if you're going away for a short time and don't have the space for big bottles

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:28 am
by Wombat
possum wrote:Store babies in them :) :lol:



(sorry I'll get me coat)
Bugger! You beat me to it! :mrgreen:

Nev