I have an entire cabinet currently used to store empty jars...

I was sure this was the ADHD section

I have an entire jar cabinet storeroom to store my cabinets of empty jars, and am building a warehouse out back to store more storerooms.

Jars are perfect for lacto fermentating anything

Many indoor plants can be propagated in glass jars of water. And you can stick those jars in pots if you want. You can forget about watering them for weeks and it's fine
- Hi I have a small piece of aloe vera that's been cut off a bigger plant and it's spent about a year or two in a pot with some soil and it looked fine until recently I realized that it started to rot and it has no roots but there are new bright green leaves growing from the center. Would it be a good idea to wash the rot off and keep it in a jar like this to wait for the roots to start to growing and then replant it into new succulent soil? Sorry for a random question but you seem to have expertise in this

When our kids got old enough my wife threw out the plastic, Ikea flower cups that the rest of us all loved. She wanted us to use more grown up cups. We now all drink exclusively from her mason jars.

Anything you buy that comes in a bag can be moved into a jar. It saves a lot of space because jars tesselate nicer and can use up vertical space more efficiently. It also encourages you to actually use the things you buy because you've now removed the friction of digging through piles of bags and hoping that the bag you pull out isn't load bearing for the rest of the pile. Opening a jar is also much easier than opening/resealing bags.
We never have enough jars in this household.

Who tf disposes glass jars. I understand plastic but as long as you have space, why would you throw them.

I have never been more attacked by a post in my life

This is me, I save all the glass jars. Also save the tide pod containers and my wife coffee cans. They all have a use.

I really got hung up on the "reuse" part of reduce, reuse, recycle.

I am both of the people in this image.

Your day will come and it will all be worth it. My day came when the mice arrived. My wife, the one who holds me back, let me loose. Glass jars to the moon! Mice had no chance! I am king again. Brrruhhshahhahaahaha! Cackle cackle evil victory laugh.
- Mice musta thought you invented some kind of forcefield to protect your food. They can see it, but they can't get to it!
  
  A wizard! Tis why they fled.

- A friend posted this meme on Facebook and my thoughts immediately went to Ocarina of Time. Was Miyamoto also a jar collector? How many jar-obcessed children did this game create?!
- https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/tech/bottle-duplication
  Need more bottles.
  Break game to acquire more bottles.
  I don't follow the OoT speedrunning community much, but I am fairly sure that it is possible to overwrite ... almost all usable items in your inventory with bottles, though some methods to do this basically make the game unstable.
  If there isn't already such a category, I think there should be an Oops! All Bottles! category, lol.
  I remember being able to pull off at least one of these methods back in 1999 or 2000, on an N64... at least one of these methods was circulating on GameFAQs.
  IIRC, you can actually deflect certain range attacks, like Ganondorf's energy ball things... by precisely timing an empty bottle swing.

The jars....THEY CALL TO ME!

I don't think Rainbow Dash likes where this is going.
- This is some advanced brain rot
- That cursed post has forever ruined jars for me

This is my partner with jars.
- Same. Our agreement is that she can keep glass containers, and I can keep old electronics. We keep each other in check lol

- You know what grinds my gears? I give someone a jar of my homemade jam, or of honey from my bees, in one of my GOOD jars, and I never see that jar again. One "friend" said she had some jars, did I want them? Yes please! Aaaand they were weird tall skinny jars or tiny sample size jars, all with the labels still on. Straight in the recycling bin. I should have kept them and given her a tiny sample jar of honey instead of the normal pound.
  Rant over.

There's a local store, where you can bring your glass jars and they fill you up with all kinds of dry foods. Since I've started buying there, I'll look in normal stores specifically for products that come in decent-looking jars. 🙃
- Commonly called a "refillery" in the US if that helps people search for their local options
- Man, I gotta make the trip to our local unpackaged goods store. One of these days ...
- Instead of separating grocery stores by Vegetable, Dairy, etc, we should separate them into Dry Goods, Moist Goods, Wet Goods, and Iced Goods.

I just store them in very large jars. I have several of these now. Don't know where to put them anymore.
- I keep my very large jars full of jars in these massive cylindrical glass containers with lids on. Can't think of the name for them but they do the job.
  
  That sounds like those Russian dolls where there’s a doll inside a doll inside a doll can’t remember the name lol

grunts in Hyrulean<<
- tchyia!

I'm gonna take this moment to be pedantic for the sake of education. Cabinets do not do the act of storing as is suggested by your title. They house. You store.
👽
- You store.
  I read that as an insult.
- Ha, you are very right. I've slightly edited the title to fix this.

Average Frugal parent

I don't have space for empty jar storage. Or full jar storage. I wish I did though. I barely have room for dishes. Jars are cool.

You can store so many things in there! Soup blue potion, bugs, a fish, you name it!
- If you live in an apartment, you can make your neighbors love you by making garum, an ancient Roman fish sauce, in a jar, indoors, in your apartment!
- Why he droppa da fish?

"Just look at all these pens and ink! I could write so many things: poetry, history, my deepest secrets, a book that changes the world!"
"So, what are you currently writing?"
"Well, nothing..."
- To real. Pretty good chance that when I do want to write something (e.g. birthday cards), my pen is dried up and it's a whole thing to make it write well again ...

Keep em when the goverment collapses they will be very useful for storage of food
- And ammo. Put an oxygen absorber in there and they will keep fresh until the nuclear winter is over.
- based

Oh god so true. My mother has this disease. Half of the shelves in her kitchen are filled with these empty bottles. And she's stacking up filled jars on the counters! Grrrrrrrrr

No, I need more empty jars! What else should I put in all those neat empty boxes I collected?

Most of those jars are perfect containers for weed.
I grow a bunch of weed for personal use and one year I grew so much I ran out of jars. I have probably ~50 or so 16oz mason jars as a result.
That was a good year!
- They would also make for incredible piss jars though, and they would be excellent for preserving strange animals / body parts. You have to consider all the angles!

There's some Albertson's trail mix that I sort of tolerate, but buy lots of because I really like the containers it comes in for storing screws and stuff in the garage.
I think my dad did similar with Yuban coffee because he's got custom built shelves in his shop to hold over a hundred of those old steel cans.

I'm now using clean peanut butter jars as mini green houses for pots, to help seeds sprout. See! I need to save every single one!

Kombucha time!
- I'm happy that kombucha is popular now, and you can buy it in the store. What I'm not happy about is you can't find plain flavor! It always has some kind of fruit juice in it.
  
  I remember I used to buy the plain big bottle of gts to start my home kombucha whenever I would take a break but I haven't seen it stocked anymore

Some bulk food stores let you bring your own. You put a sticker on them with the bulk item # and also the dry weight, so it's a little more work, but then you can put your jars to use!

Are you me?

Just like the Taoism concept of 'Pu', or the un-carved block, being a symbol of pure potential, an empty bottle is also pure potential

They have potential. They always endup being used. Sometimes, to make better use of space I might swap bigger jars with smaller ones depending on the content. In the storage cabinet, bigger jars can contain smaller ones.

I blame Ocarina of Time, wherein glass jars are extraordinarily useful and difficult to acquire. Oh, there's also only four of them in existence. Cleaned-out peanut butter jars are basically Blue Eyes White Dragons.

Jars make cute pots for small plants.

Walking into The Container Store always makes me feel good about my glass jar collection when I see them charge like $8 to $10 for a single glass jar. Their “luxury acrylic” jars are about half the cost of that… I know that the store only exists to separate rich people from their money.

Start growing/foraging plants and drying them. When you do that, you can never have enough jars.

I'm gonna start throwing some away once I start running out of space! I swear!

Hey keep your hands off my wife

Oof. I also have a couple of really good bottles ... I sometimes use them for premade cocktails or when I buy a bottle of spirit or wine that really needs a better container.

A jar offers peak utility when empty - so much efficiency!

I thought this was Autism memes for a second
- My wife is the culprit in our house. Should I get her screened...?

I remember before I stopped drinking I loved collecting the extravagant liquor bottles. I must have had a dozen of the old kahlua ones that were all dimpled and ridged, and the cool but terrible tasting tequila skulls.
- Weirdly, I do the opposite - I collect bottles that are simple, lightweight and a practical shape (i.e. cylindrical instead of bulbous, not to too tall, not too squat) and there's a decent chance that I'll decant liquor that comes in an extravagant bottle (though the bottles I'm most likely to decant are those that are too tall for my shelves or contain 1l - that's just a lot of weight when you want to pour exactly 20 ml).

Very cute and relatable