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Post by kathyinmd on Jul 16, 2020 21:53:52 GMT
what is a good price for used quart and pint canning jars?
my location is Balto MD
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Post by Melissa on Jul 16, 2020 22:42:26 GMT
I would probably pay $3-4 dozen max.
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Post by Tallpines on Jul 16, 2020 22:57:38 GMT
Another canning jar question ...... I have about 2 dozen jars that are filled with long ago outdated food. I have been putting off the job of emptying them .... well .... because I do not want to deal with the effort it will take to properly clean them. Several of them have meat (venison) stored in them. The contents still look okay but there is no way I will prepare them for consumption. Jars that have had venison in them are particularly difficult to clean. I’m tempted to just throw the entire unit out .... but then my deceased mother would be back to haunt me. I know that the Mennonite neighbors are always looking for more canning jars. Would it make me a bad person to ask them if they wanted these jars still filled with outdated food?  |
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Post by kathyinmd on Jul 16, 2020 23:34:31 GMT
it does not hurt to ask. i do not think anyone would be offended.
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Post by Melissa on Jul 17, 2020 1:16:42 GMT
Tallpines, Ask- the worst thing they can say is no!
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Post by mollymckee on Jul 17, 2020 3:13:24 GMT
I got a bunch of jars years ago from one of my mil’s neighbors. There were a lot with very old food in them 20-30 years old and most of the others looked like someone dumped out the jar and didn’t bother to wash it. Nasty, but I said I’d help. She did give me some nice antiques she didn't like so it wasn’t all bad. We dumped the jars in a hole we dug, I bought some new trash cans and filled them with water. I added dish washer detergent and let them soak a couple of days. We rinsed them, soaked them in bleach, then boiled them, washed them in the dish washer and they were good to go.
I remember in the 70’s when you just couldn’t buy jars in our area. My DH’s aunt and uncle farmed about 4hours north west of us in a farming ares. She offered me more jars so we went to visit. My kids have most of them now, I don’t need over a thousand quart jars now there are only two o us.
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Post by aunatural on Jul 17, 2020 6:13:44 GMT
I recently was gifted 11 cases of old pint bottles that were filled with food, most of them dating back to the mid-fifties. The oldest one dated back to 1939! I think of them as a treasure trove and imagine what the person was thinking as they prepared each jar as I clean each one. It’s a lot of work but I find it fascinating to see what people from a different time and place thought was important enough to want to preserve.
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Post by dw on Jul 17, 2020 13:48:42 GMT
Dig a big hole and dump. Then I would soak them as someone mentioned. I have been gifted old ones and I always soak, wash and the last thing is dishwasher. Before we had a dishwasher, I would boil them. I love to go thru them & search for the antiques...many are in our local museum now.
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Post by Tallpines on Jul 17, 2020 15:01:49 GMT
Dig a big hole and dump. Then I would soak them as someone mentioned. I have been gifted old ones and I always soak, wash and the last thing is dishwasher. Before we had a dishwasher, I would boil them. I love to go thru them & search for the antiques...many are in our local museum now. I doubt there are any antiques amongst these .... The jars are not old ...... Just the food inside of them .... (different aging scale for the food versus the jars 😉). Several years ago my DD bought a house that had at least a hundred old jars filled with food. The really old man wanted to charge them $100 for all that food! Most of it unidentifiable. They declined .... and ended up tossing everything. Now ...... those would have been the jars to look through for Antiques! |
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