Potty = acting a little strangely
Preserves = [noun] Jams, chutneys etc [verb] maintains in good state
Jam = [noun] a fruit preserve [verb] to squash inbto a small space
I suppose some people might want to buy them. Here are some ideas for using them. Remember to label them!
Buttons when I am dismantling shirts for memory bears, I save all the buttons [four shirts can yield anything up to 60 little buttons]Seeds saving seeds - from tomatoes, sweet peas etc
Herbs and spices - especially when they are sold in flimsy plastic bags.
Packed lunches and picnics - a small amount of salad dressing, or sugar for someone's coffee, a few peanuts to nibblePVA glue - when I run craft workshops, its often easiest to give each person their own little pot, rather than have them reaching across the table.
Especially when working with children! And the unused glue will keep liquid if the tiop is screwed on firmly.Craft supplies - as well as buttons, they are a good size for beads, sequins, etc.
Travel - earrings, pills, earbuds, hairclips and elastics, mini sewing kit.
Small change- useful in the car, £s for the trolley, and odd bits of 'shrapnel' for all those Norfolk Pay&Display carparks which only take cash if you do not have their particular Parking App.Tiny gifts- pot up a little terrarium with a mini cactus and some moss, or put some home-made jam or chutney in a jar
[and add a fabric 'hat'], or fill the pot with tiny sweets or mints - or make a mini candle. Glue on a padded ciurcle of fabric to make a pincushion. 
There are literally dozens of ideas out there for reusing mini jam jars
How have you repurposed yours?
Are you getting rich selling them online?
Ours have been recycled...
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ReplyDeleteI don’t have any! Where do you acquire them from ?
ReplyDeleteApologies to my English teacher Miss Flint, but ‘from where ….’ Sounded a bit much
Many from National Trust tearooms, (and similar places) where jam is served with scones. And if I'm with a friend, I'll ask for her empty jampot too. Once people knew I collected them back in Leicester, they would save their mini jars for me too.
DeleteI suspect Miss Flint is long gone to her eternal rest (from whence no pedantic grammarian returns!})
Now I see the error of my ways; I usually have a cheese scone!
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ReplyDeleteThose small Nutella jars with the lids are also incredibly useful and are nearly 100% of our drinking glasses. I wish Gu jars had lids.
You can buy wooden lids for Gü jars online
DeleteThe lids from Pringles and Stackers tubes fit onto Gu pots. :-)
DeleteThat is BRILLIANT thank you
DeleteI always take mine away with me if we have had scones because it is usually still half full! I have used them for all the things that you do but the tiny little gift looks lovely and I’ll keep that in mind for future projects. The other reason I take the jars away as I’m not sure they would be recycled and if nothing else, they can go in my silver bin at home. Lovely post to start the week. Catriona
ReplyDeleteYes I agree with you about ensuring they are properly recycled. Tiny gifts are such fun! 🎁
DeleteI like the pin cushion idea. I only have a few of these little jars, but I must admit I always keep them when they appear with a cream tea. There is something about jam jars, any size. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteThe pincushions are useful if I am taking sewing away with me - I can store the pins inside the jar safely for travelling
DeleteThe two mothers collected dozens of them for home produced honey and jam for wedding favours. I use them for passing on kefir starter.
ReplyDeleteWedding favours, what a brilliant idea
DeleteI have about four mini jam jars, but, they are still full of jam! I must remember to eat the jam soon!
ReplyDeleteJam on toast is a great comfort food
DeleteDrawing pins, rubber bands, Iris's craft stuff. Otherwise I put them in the recycle box. Hugs Xx
ReplyDeleteIn the old days, drawing pins came in a durable tin. Now they arrive in flimsy plastic packaging, so you need a small storage jar
DeleteWe use them for tablets when we go away for a weekend or when Alan is away for work. I have one that is full of little gold stars that were scattered all over our VIP table on a holiday. And more recently we have used them to take single portions of milk for Alan's coffees when we are having lunch at Mum's after a bout of sorting. They are just too cute to throw into the recycling aren't they.
ReplyDeleteLittle milk pots, very good idea
DeleteDo you remember when Robertson's Jams used to have paper gollies , you could save up about 6-8 and get an enamel golly pin? JanF
ReplyDeleteWe couldn't afford that jam, but my Mum scrounged the gollies from the ladies in her church group. We collected the china figures. But never kept them as they were not politically correct
DeleteYou have suggested such great uses for them. I think the individual glue pots particularly is a genius idea!!
ReplyDeleteI have one in my holiday wash bag which is full of dissolvable mouth wash tabss. I also have a little plastic cup which is only a fraction larger (was an M&S individual dessert) that is the the receptacle I use to dissolve the tab in with water and it serves as my toothmug).
I also use them for seeds and buttons but I recently chucked some out as I'm trying to clear stuff. I gave a little plastic pot to a Year 6 girl who came in and sharpened pencils for me and she made perfect sharpening roses so she took them home in a tiny pot!
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DeleteVery sweet jars. Our jam comes in plastic squares with a pull off foil label.
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DeleteI have offered small clean mustard jars to the local care home where they sometimes make preserves with the more able residents (less abled enjoy watching). Then each resident can have their own individual sample. Little jars are also useful for small amounts of paint for craft sessions in the day program there. I have some mini jam jars that have come from gift baskets, and restaurants, which I should pass on.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of mini pots of paint
DeleteI saw some of these jars on tables in the cafe area of a large department store recently. They were for loose change for charity. I think they were regularly collected when the tables were cleaned for the next customer.
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