What's a Good Use for Glass Jars?

You've received some great ideas but I didn't see these two I came across recently and love:
http://thecreativemama.com/diy-gift-card-snow-globe/ ~ Gift Card Snow Globes
AND
http://masterpieceweddings.blogspot.ca/2012/01/new-years-... ~ Glow Jars

Well, you can use them to store just about anything. I sometimes use them as flower vases. Some people use them as a drinking glass. My daughter took a spider to her science class in one yesterday. They are great for food storage...no yucky plastic.

You could fill them up with corn, acorns, leaves, etc. as an upcoming fall decoration.

Pintrest might be a great resource to find some new ideas.

What size jars? Small ones are good for mixing kids paint. Larger ones could be decorated and used to hold potpourri or some such thing...

Also a fun way for kids to help cook etc. put the liquid ingredients int hem, close the top and let them shake (works great for mixing marinades).

Good luck!

I like to use them outside for votive candles.

I designed a cute logo with my family's last name and I slap them on empty jars with their product label peeled off, to use them as pen/pencil holders, scissor, crayons, q-tips, cothespins, markers, rubber bands, coins, box tops stamps, even for utensils for our outdoor meals. I have a large plastic peanut butter jar I use for stray tools like screwdrivers and letter openers. I use the wide mouth jars to store my flour, sugar, baking powders, chocolate chips.

I designed them on my computer and used average address label sheets you can run through your home printer.

use them for home-made salsa

The not crafty, boring, totally utilitarian thing I do with them? Put keep them under my kitchen sink and use one to drain grease into because I don't want it going down my sink. They're sturdy, don't leak or sweat, the screw top lid is ideal.

The slightly more imaginative thing I do that is useful: they make good citronella candles to keep flies and gnats away while we're enjoying the patio or eating out back.

I've been given some REALLY nice scented candles from a friend in small and large mason jars, and I actually like them.

I put my son's rock collection in one and use it as a doorstop. I also keep a small one for when I cook with cornstarch - add cornstarch and some liquid, close top, and shake (less lumps!). I've used them to store leftovers. It's especially good for soup.

You could also use them to store and separate craft supplies, paint or glue stuff to them and use as vases or pencil holders or whatever.

You can screw the lids to the underside of a shelf. Use the jars to hold screws, nails, or other small items. Just screw the jar back onto the lid that's attached to the shelf to store them.

I put candy in mine.

Or you could use it for spare change or a pencil holder,

- Paint them
- cookies jars
- candle holders
- throw in some colored pebbles or marbles, confetti and make them a show piece
- pencil/pen holder

In pre-school my daughter covered a babyfood jar with scraps of colored tissue paper to look like stained glass and inserted a tea light. It was a Christmas gift. She's a senior in highschool and I still take it out and use it every Christmas.

There isn't much of a market for the recycled glass. My city takes the jars in the recycling, but they then smash the glass and use it to make roads at the landfill. My Sunday school class makes soup mix in a jar and sells them to the congregation to raise funds for outreach programs. When we have a soup luncheon at church, the ladies put the leftover soup in jars and sell the jars of ready made soup. My husband uses them in the garage for nuts and bolts etc. My neighbour buys stuff from bulk bins and stores it in glass jars. Whenever I give someone flowers I use a glass jar as opposed to a vase. I store cotton balls in a jar. I've made homemade bath salts and kept them in glass jars. We made a cute Valentine's craft one year with babyfood jars, we filled the jars with cinnamon sugar and put a little poem "Here's a little something sweet to make your Valentine's toast a treat." My favourite jars to reuse are the Classico pasta sauce jars.

make little flower pots? Candles?

Leftover food storage
Freezing portioned food for easy heat-up later

We have a wall on our balcony along which a line is strung. We took the labels off our glass jars, painted them a bit, left some blank, put tea lights in them, and hung them (with wire around the opening of the jar and leading up) along that line. Looks really nice at night, and was so cheap.

I use old mason jars to bake cakes in. There is a book much like cookies in a jar, brownies in a jar, etc...they may all be by the same author.

I grease the jar with a foam bottle washer tool. It is kept in the fridge with a bag over the end while I am doing this since it is never used for anything else. Then I pour in lemon bread batter. Only about 1/2 full. Then I bake them until done. I pour a lemon glaze that is really warm over the bread making totally sure to not get a tiny bit on the top where the seal happens. Then I put the lid on and wait until it pops. I cut a circle piece of fabric and lay it on top with a ring on top of that. I tighten the ring down and it makes a cute jar to give for a nice gift. I have also done spice cake and a frosting glaze type icing. It is hot going on hot cake so it has to be something that will do that well.