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I really like this video Mary. These are all the same values i have as well but boy you really have a gift of getting things in an orderly fashion in order to give the information perfectly the way you go into detail to give people alot of ideas. This is fantastic mary!!!
Recycle somehow sounds nicer than garbage or trash?? My how we've changed!! If your bottoms of feet dry out & crack- it can be from Vit B deficiency !!
Oh my word... you brought back some sweet memories. My little brother and I used to spend our summers biking down our neighborhood alleys looking for cool throw-aways. Then we'd go home and make super weird, unrecognizable crafts out of whatever we found. At the end of summer we put all our "artwork" in our front porch. When anyone came to visit our parents we'd make them pay 25 cents to enter our house because they had to pass through our "museum" to get there. Most people thought it was hilarious but Mom was mortified! =D
When I lived in Germany they had one night a month where everyone put things out they no longer want,Anyone that wants it may take it.Then whatever is left over goes to charities and or recycling and lastly the dump.There was a name for that day but I cant remember.Its such a great idea.Thank you for all the great info Mary.Love you sweet friend.Prayer sent for you and your husband and son.
V Nette it is called Sperrmuell :) where I lived it was only a twice a year thing, but we had fun!!! I recall one year we used an old desk chair with wheels and pushed each other along the side walk - until we got tired of it and left it at another house with junk. Fond memories! I still have a suitcase that used to be fixed as a picknick carrier, I took all that out and stored photographs for a while in it, I think now it holds some of my yarn.
It was twice a year where we lived and it was because they are highly taxed on pieces of furniture so they put it out on the curb so people can take it before the tax man comes around
Actually, with your baskets, you should remember they're plant material, and the material is usually in water while people weave their baskets, which makes it easier to work with. So good old dish soap and water, like you wash dishes with, and rinsing and letting dry, often refreshens the basket so it's no longer brittle.
My father used to screw lids with little jars to his workshop shelves and store different size nuts, bolts, screws and nails to keep his shop organized. This brought back that great memory.
I wanted to ad Sweet Mary, my Grandmother used to buy items from the Jewel Tea Company. In her treasures she found a beautiful pint jar from Jumbo peanut butter. It is decorated with a raised design of an elephant and the jar has raised swirls on it. On the bottom in raised lettering is printed June 24 1952. Which happens to be my birthday. It's one of my most treasured items.
GayLee that is cool. My son was drinking out of a quilted pattern glass mug he liked. I told him...did you know back in the day peanut butter came in it.
You never know sometimes the history. I liked the juice glasses my grandmother had After I got married my husband and I were visiting her took me aside and said You know those are snuff glasses right? Turns out my country grandma had a little secret tobacco habit
Oh Rose, I am so sorry to hear that you suffer from anxiety but I am humbled that I can play a small roll in offering you some comfort. Love and God Bless, Mary
I rescued 2 cases of small antique jars from a huge estate sale in Las Vegas. They came with leakproof gold lids. They were from the original Tropicana Hotel from the sixties. $5 for both cases. They were used in the rooms for face cream and lotions. lol I am using them for my herbal apothecary.
The lids exposed to vinegar usually has a small thin piece of styrofoam like barrier. Cut an egg carton the valley that holds the egg is sometimes a little thinner just cut a circle out and insert it into the cap.
My mother loved absolutely loved a junk shop. The more cluttered the better she liked it. She said it was a grown up treasure hunt. The things in her house that people would adore were always junk shop finds. She passed in 2017, oh how I miss seeing her with dirt on her face and hands and hair sticking up everywhere when she had been rummaging around in a "good" junk shop. I laughed when you got to Revere Ware. She had 2 complete sets of cookware (with lids!) and several extra pots and pans. Only a couple of pieces matched exactly. 😂
My mother and her best friend lived for the same things. Us kids learned great skills to clean up and refurbish and even restore antiques. Depression era parents who always predicted that another Depression was coming again.
@@OneAdam12Adam yes and now understand the why there were always extra cases of canned goods, packages of bathroom necessaries, extra laundry products and so in the basement of my grandparents and parents houses. I should have been better prepared for 2020 🤦♀️ (I knew better)
Hi Beth, I was wondering about that. I haven't been down the baby food aisle in a long time. Yes, finding those baby food glass jars is a treasure! Love, Mary
Thank you for the Sweet Memory jarring...my father had shelves above his work bench in the garage. On the underside of the shelves he had screw Baby Food jar lids, then he filled the glass jars with miscellaneous Nuts, Bolts, Washers, Screws, Tacks and Nails. At a glance he could see what he had or needed for a project instead of spending hours digging thru workbenches drawers for the right size of this or that.
I love jars. Over time, I bought and saved a dozen salad dressing glass jars from the grocery store. I searched Filmore Containers online and purchased the lids for them with the Plastisol Liner so I could water bath can my strawberry syrup! My husband was totally amazed.
I'm the same.Whenever I see an interesting shaped jar at grocery store I have to get it.You can do so many things with glass jars.I save up sets of jars too.Your hubby should be impressed that's pretty awesome.🙂👍♥️
They make great vases too! I love the jar from 4C Parmesan cheese for a flower vase for zinnias. I put some raffia around the top at the threads. I even got multi-color electrical tape to cover the jar threads. Salad dressing bottles are great vases, all glas jars. And the pimeiento spread jars are perfect for smaller flowers
When I go thrifting I look for a few baskets. I use them for when I harvest my veggies. I sometimes take my excess produce arrange it prettily in one of the cleaned baskets and take to a friend that doesn't garden and loves fresh vegetables, or a family having a hard time of it.
So thorough and helpful! My neighbor was tossing (recycling bin) dozens of canning jars this past winter and offered them to me. I took what I wanted and even gave some away. Nice!
My heart jumped when you picked up the Revere Ware saucepan, but I felt an ache when you said to check junk stores for them. I still have several pieces of the Revere Ware my mama selected as a wedding gift for me in February 1961, and they are especially dear to me because I'm sentimental. Besides that, they will boil water faster than my All-Clad will! Sixty years and still going -- the pans, that is. I'm on marriage number four.
The jars attached under cabinets reminds me of my grandfather, he did the same thing in his workshop for all the different sizes of screws, nails, bolts, washers, etc. ❤
I always say "one man's junk, is another man's treasure" and it's amazing what some people will throw out! I love Revere Ware, I have 2 sets of it going back to the early 1990's, can't seem to find it anymore. Thanks for the great tips, especially for the jars and baskets! Also, big thanks for taking the time to make and share this video!
I have a set of Revere Ware too It has stayed the course for decades! Those kitchen sponges with a scrubber on one side will polish the copper bottom up like new in just a matter of minutes.
Love this Mary, I’ve done beautiful dark blue bottles I’ve saved over the years , I root my cuttings in them because I have them at the window , the dark blue protects the new roots from direct sun but they look beautiful with the sunlight streaming through them x
I believe from what I've seen & read, ALTON BROWN was first person to utilize 🧲 MAGNETIC STRIPS on bottom (or top) to spice size metal cabinet doors (instead of screws) to simply store & keep everything such as cinnamon, cinnamon sticks, whole clove nutmeg, etc. I'm 62 years old, & I was SO excited to see that. As you know, it take a LOT to get us to be excited 😁 & think something is better than sliced bread! 😁 👍🏻 🏆 🍞 Y'all have a beautiful day. 💛 💗 💕 ♥️ 💜
Your channel is the most informative and delightful presentations. I too collect glass bottles and jars. The colored ones are getting more challenging to find these days. I finally have a kitchen garden with my favorite herbs. I'm finding parsley is the thirstiest! My granddaughter, while pondering tossing a glass jar exclaimed "I'm turning into Grandma!" But she has found how practical and necessary these items can be. Too many things in plastic, now. Thank you for all your kind words and inspiration!
Hi Mary, We really did. I just love it when he comes home to visit and we'll run errands together and have a mom and son lunch out. It's such a treat! And he is still as much of a doll as he was when he was a little boy! Love, Mary
Love it! I'm a 'Junker' aka 'Picker'. My mom was a 'Trash Picker' - Love it! Goodwill has the 'Bins' where you can buy things for super cheap also, by the pound. What isn't purchased, what is broken, is left over at the end of the day is put into the dumpster and taken to the dump. These things are still treasures.
I love going through people's recycle bins on occasion, where my daughter lives they throw out great stuff😊 thrift store has been slim pickings since the plandemic😕
I discovered pickled pumpkins... I'm going through a Discovery phase. Thanks for the fruit vinegar idea. I love the beautiful liquor bottles.. I treasure these simple things.
Thank you so much for your recycling wisdom Mary. It all makes "sense" doesn't it? I was happy to see you out of the kitchen and hope you will sit down with us and let us share your thoughts with all. Top of the day to you and hubby.
U gimme so many mommy vibes...i lost my mom a few years back n i just found ur vidoes a few days back recommended by another youtuber and i have been hooked...you remind me of my mom u speak with me just the way she would....you explain how she used to....so much love to you all d way from india🤗
Thank You for a lovely reminder that all that's old is new again. I've Thrifted for decades and saved jars and bottles forever. And forever my family complained about my shelves of 'kitchen junk' covered in jars, containers and treasures until, they needed something from the family farmacy or kitchen. The fun part was they married and discovered the COST of just buying storage containers.. I do get a great laugh over their 'kitchen junk' shelves.
Dear Mary, Wish we were neighbors! You're a gal after my own heart. Those items are just the kind of things that draw me, too. Great episode. Thanks for sharing!
I'm sure it has been mentioned, but BarKeeper's Friend is ideal for cleaning Revereware (or any stainless/copper pots!). It has oxalic acid; which will remove any tarnish and stains with minimal effort. For stubborn stains, just get the pot wet and sprinkle it over the surface and rub to make a bit of a paste coating. It will lighten before your eyes!
Hi Mary!👋 I'm happy you showed your measuring spoons in a container. Mine are getting - challenging.😁 Thank you!💜 Years ago I grew red kuri squash. I used the small deli containers upside down to keep them off the ground. (No bug damage.) I love to use the jars that pickles or olives come in for long-term dry storage; also glass peanut butter jars. I vacuum seal dried flowers, herbs and fruit in them. Also, we used to be able to find canning jars at thrift shops. With so many people canning, not so much anymore. I have found some Alas jars that spaghetti sauce comes in though. Most of them have the same threading as regular mouth canning jars. The idea with the lids screwed into something is what my dad used to do in his shop for his nails, screws, washers and such. ✝️🤗💜
Oh Mary! I’m with you! So much work, raw materials, design, etc., have gone into these that we paid money for them. We have them now in our possession, they are useful, often beautiful and interesting. Like you said nothing should ever be wasted. One thing (of too many) I like to collect is trays. So many of them are lovely and even the old cafeteria style ones are good to place under pots of seedlings, or on the counter as an extra place for draining dishes, under jars I am filling up with grains or catching stray bits, for placing under a cutting board when slicing a roast, carrying and serving snacks around, to capture crafting supplies, and some just to lie on a table or stand against the backsplash and look beautiful! Another is old sewing supplies, that I like to think probably laid around in someone’s old stash, like spools of thread that have a “25 Cents” label, or a collection of wee buttons and zippers for sewing Barbie clothes. I myself keep old treasures in the drawers, like gifts my kids made when they were small, so I can stumble upon them and go down memory lane. I like to think that by gathering old things that they have the history of the former owner, and this somehow adds to their charm! Of course, this must be rigorously controlled, or build another garage.
Oh yes. Collecting bottles and jars, and lids or tops of all sizes, is something I can’t resist. I even look for orphan lids of all shapes at junk shops. I’ve made darling shabby chic combinations.
It is so nice to see someone who shares my hobby of recycle, upcycle, and repurpose for glass jars, bottles and china/ceramic crocks. I follow your channel now, learning from you all the wonderful potions I can make to put in to them. Once a prepper, always a prepper. My grandmother was one as a farmers wife, I am one too out of necessity. A logical and purposeful way to live. Thank you for sharing all that you have taught. I learn from you every day. Blessings to you and your family.
I bought a car once that had a sticker on it that no amount of 'goo gone' would loosen. I used Avon skin-so-soft oil on it and it came right off. Now, I start with goo gone because it does work well on some glues but I don't spend time scraping it, I'll just use the Avon oils a last resort & it never fails to pull all the glue off quickly. When all the glue is gone & I'm left with an oily bottle, I use the blue Dawn dish soap to desolve & clean all the oil off. Reusing bottles & jars saves so much money when you mix your own!!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one LOL I have love to save jars to use for things. Especially pretty jars or bottles that have a little design on them or like you said a pretty lid. I love Smuckers jars. I save heavy plastic bowls. I don't need Tupper Ware LOL One thing you didn't mention that I collect, and I guess there's not a lot of use for them in the kitchen, is boxes. My son use to tease me when I'd tell him "that's a good box don't throw that out" Now he's doing it and saying the same thing. I just love it how that turned out after teasing me. LOL I love watching your videos. You are always so cheerful. That's how I try to be too. Who wants to be around an old sour puss right. Thank you for brightening up the day. God's abundant love, favor, blessings and protection on you and your family 🙂✌💜☝🕇
The lids to the French glasses also fit the small (about 1 cup size) Pyrex or Anchor Hocking storage containers! To remove labels I use peanut butter - any oil will do, but the peanut butter doesn't slide off the jar. Occasionally I have to resort to Goo Gone, but peanut butter (cheap) usually works and it's food safe.
Fun video. We have used those French Working glasses for 43 years, and I have added to them over the years. I got inspired and went to Goodwill today and found 6 of them for a total of $2.64. The thickness of the glass has diminished over the years, but they are still good.
Thank you! I have a tip for glue residues on glass or plastic bottles and jars. When I soaked the label of and there is some glue residue, I put a little bit of cooking oil or butter on the glue and let it sit for a few hours, or overnight. Then it's very easy to remove the glue by some kitchen paper and washing.
Omg Mary, my Bubbe was born in 1880s and she always used metal cans for planting her plants! I never forgot that and I am now Ancient and I do the same. Thank you again Mary . 🌺
I have a full drawer of glass jars!! They are smaller from spices, jams, espresso, etc. I use them for spice blends I make or dried herbs. I started saving them with the plan to organize nuts, bolts, nails and other small hardware. But of course have not gotten around to organizing the hardware drawer yet! Very informative Mary.
Has anyone ever told you that YOU are a treasure??? You provide so much important knowledge...and I thank you so much!!! In my hometown on the Texas/Mexico border, we have a couple of flea markets, a resale/bargain shop run by the hospice, and one especially great junk shop. I am now armed with KNOWLEDGE on what to specifically look for!!
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words!! So glad you're here!! Oh my goodness - I haven't been to a flea market in years. Now you have me wanting to head over to one! Good luck with your hunting!! Love, Mary
@@MarysNest I thought the flea market disappeared! Where can you still find flea markets? My entire childhood/adolescence was spent going to flea markets helping my parents restoring old things. Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia... I miss flea markets! I learned the value of things from that experience.
Mary, you're so great. I just enjoy watching and/or listening to u on the regular while doing so many chores. We have so much in common, and u are just SO sweet and pleasant. Super enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for all u share❣️ Xoxoxoxo
You have such a calming voice and a super personality...it's now 02:13 in SA and I watch your videos just before bed as your soothing voice tone is so relaxing 😊thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us
I really enjoyed this video, and seeing this side of you. I love the old bottles and usually save my jars. They come in so handy for things. I love eclectic too. My husband and I always enjoyed going through junk shops. You never know what you will find. Unfortunately, he passed away last year, but I still have those treasures to look at and remember the fun times we had together finding them. God bless.
I love your tile choice! It's elegant and cheerful. I also love thrift/junk store shopping. I do it for practially everything; my clothing, kitchen items, dishes, china teacups, strange objects for assemblage art... and my very favorite thing is to do it while I'm away from home. I'm going to Texas later in the spring, and I am SUPER-excited to see what's down that away.
Your story about you and your son buying bread and tomatoes touched me. When my son was 4 years old, he used to ask me to make him a salad sandwich. Fresh bread with a warm tomato sliced fresh from the garden. He wanted the tomato warm from the sun and nothing on the bread. Beautiful memories.
My mom and Dad had one just like the crock and they kept bacon fat in it. I am a product of the '50s and my mother taught us not to waste. We would save such things as buttons, even zippers. I save small bottles for freezer jam.
I bought an All American pressure canner at a junk store for $20. I've been using it for 3 year's and it still looks brand new. It was very stinky inside. I suspect it was used once, the owner was intimidated, never cleaned it up and later got rid of it. Simmering water with baking soda took all of the odor away.
Both my pressure canners were garage sale finds, prior to 1993, don't remember what I paid, but way under $50 each. Gaskets and other parts are replaceable, online if you can't find the right part locally.
Mary, how wonderful you are! I truly envy you & the way you live independently!! I am from Austin, living in Seabrook!! I love to hear you mention the HOT Texas sun...Truer words never spoken...My Mom lived in Johnson City years ago, we loved loved Fredericksburg!! All of that is so very different now, but we found some great deals around the Hill Country...Now its so....not out of the way, quiet!!! But I love your channel...have learned so very much. I live in a Condo, not much room for garden, but I'm gonna try small container gardening!! God bless, thanks again, linda
I’m medium simmering my pinto beans for a couple of hours now. Started at 10 p.m. after work and is almost 12 midnight. I had them soaking in water for forty-eight hours,changing the water in between twenty-four hours.They are almost done. I used to cook them on med high heat and that’s why they would always break. These are great.I’ll add the salt and bay leave and let them cool off. Tomorrow after work, I’ll season them the way I usually do with other beans the Cuban way preparing a great sofrito. Thank you for sharing.Happy New Year
Love this! I have been a junk shopper my entire life. Except for an air fryer nothing in my kitchen from cookware ,storage or serving dish ware is new. Everything is second hand. I have had people offer me many hundreds of dollars for my everyday dishes that I have collected over the last 40 years and I have never paid more then 1.00 for any piece of it. I have the very best top of the line electric cook ware , never paid more then 15.00 for any of it. It amazes me how many people buy expensive appliances thinking that they will use them and never do.
Good advice about thrift stores and junking. My wife's step father owns an antique store, but it's more a junk shop to us. It does come in handy from time to time because my mother in law says to go get anything we want for cooking for my channel. There's that classic Mary laughter 18:07 , it's priceless! By the way, we have stored our cooking utensils in crocks on the counter since we got married fifteen years ago. Digging through drawers is a good way to loose a finger 😉
Hi Jim, Oh my goodness!! Yes, isn't that the truth about digging through drawers!! I learned the hard way about 15 years ago! OUCH!! Hope you are having a great week. Love, Mary
Hi Mary and friends... acid is what is needed to lift scorched bunt on food from pots, followed by a steel pot scrubber Makes easy work. Vinegar or lemon. Heat it up like you do with baking soda.
Had to add another comment Mary. My hubby thinks I'm nuts, like you I too save all types of bottles, plastic containers and even cans, especially the mixed Planters large cans, the bigger the better to re-purpose. I was thinking when you held up that can how cute it would be to hot glue some jute, thin cord or rope to make it more appealing and maybe glue on some type of applique like a star fish, anchor, any other type of nautical theme, or even cows, barn, etc. for country look or even flowers and herbs. When hubby gives me "grief" about what I save, I'll tell him, "fine, I'll just go spend x amount of dollars to buy them new!" and with that he shuts his mouth..LOL... There are just way too many great containers now a days to reuse and save money at the same time. Again, really enjoyed the video, thanks again!!
Thank you Mary, Growing up in a family of 9 children, we always shopped thrift stores. Almost all I have in my kitchen is from thrift, yard sales or someone was discarding. I have a small crock with a snap down lid, like your brown one, but it was sour dough starter, originally. I use it for my bacon grease. ❤️🇺🇸
Wow! You're the first person that knew what Revereware was, in 45 years, that I've heard. Revereware was my mother's primary cookware, as well as mine. It still is, although I have to admit that I'm not too consistent at cleaning the copper bottoms. I also used to enjoy doing a lot of upcycling type of crafts and saved all kinds of jars, bottles, and containers. Besides what you mentioned, I found that lg. sauerkraut jars made the best jars for "gifts in a jar" projects.
I grew up with Revere Ware. Got my own set for my wedding. I've been collecting old Revere Ware for several years. That and cast iron is all I use to cook. It can be brought back from horrible conditions.
I love garage and estate sales, thrift shops, and multi-seller malls. We don't have a junk shop per se. I bought most of my rolling pin collection, an old fashioned potato ricer, various tools, jars, a crock, etc.all used. Lots of fun! I also save and use those same food grade plastic containers and jars. They don't recycle glass in my town. For plastic and paper/cardboard, you have to take it to a community bin elsewhere. I do have a neighbor who brings me all her cardboard boxes, which I use in the garden. Most people don't bother recycling... they just throw stuff out.
Mary you and I would love junking together! I do all these things too! Used to go junking with my Mom and looked for the same types of treasures! She’s from Texas too! And we saved a lot of money since we grew up in a large family! You’re a lot of fun😊 I just enjoy you so much
Omg, you’re such a sweet down to earth lady! I am also into glass bottles, jars and quarts, gallons . Especially, if they are made of real glass? But, i buy pickled herring in quart glass jars and i hav saved every single ine. In summer, i cut up a whole watermelon and put it into these jars and i pull out a glass jar and eat my watermelon. Mary stay as authentic as you are and genuine! It is a pleasure to see someone not Botoxed up or a plastic stretched face. Some of the clothes some of these women wear and trying to hawk a food recipe? Really, makes me wonder what they are trying to sell? Thank you again Mary! 🌺☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
Our local hardware store has quite a collection of corks. Some of them look like the wine stoppers. I have been able to find corks to fit most any of the bottles that I reuse.
Wow! Kindred spirit! I thought I was the only crazy lady that saved bottles, plastic, etc. And, junking! My mom when she was alive started....and started me on this early on as we were Hungarian Immigrants (1956). She furnished a little basement apartment in upstate NY using stuff found or what she called the SA store(Salvation Army)She loved antique everything. I am 65 and worry that glass will be used less and less. I am new to your channel and have subscibed! Thanks for a lovely video and you are also lovely with a beautiful smile and personality to match! Hello from Greenacres Fl !
♥️👋Thanks for inspiring me and cheering me up. I agree, those older bottle are gems, everything you showed gives more of a homey kitchen with atmosphere🎆🤗
Thank you for sharing great tips. I’ve started keeping all glass bottles and jars. U r so right. They r treasured. I hardly use any plastic anymore. Great ideas
Good info...FYI, you can water bath tomatoes but you have to make sure that they are high acid tomato. There's so many kinds of tomatoes that we can grow or get off the shelf that are not high acid and those do need to be pressure cooked.
In our local quilt group, some of us go through resale and junk shops and find old quilt squares or unfinished or unquilted quilt tops that have most probably been dropped off by relatives when a quilter dies. Old folklore relates that a part of a quilter lives on in her quilts. When we finish such quilts, I try to imagine who she was and what her life was like. I think it might make her happy to know that someone treasured what she did. These quilt tops can go for ridiculously cheap because heirs don't realize their value. If you should happen to find these, check with your local quilt group and see if they would like them.
Oh my goodness, I just spent a long time writing some things in the comments and accidentally touched my screen and it all disappeared. I don’t know if it sent or not. I haven’t slept since yesterday morning. I’m going to bed know but please know I appreciate you and all the hard work you put into this channel.
This is my first time watching you. I'm in love 😘 Ok.... Confession I very often purchase products for their containers... 🤭 I save almost everything.. LoL Sometimes I do pay a bit more for something if it has a perfect jar or box or tin etc. I reuse all the large clamshell types. They work very well in pantries and refrigerator/freezer to corral thing's. You know... Like All the videos showing how to organize. I use those or "good" larger box's cut to perfect size.
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Thanks for watching! Love, Mary
Some of my best found treasures were from junk shops. Love your content Mary.
I really like this video Mary. These are all the same values i have as well but boy you really have a gift of getting things in an orderly fashion in order to give the information perfectly the way you go into detail to give people alot of ideas. This is fantastic mary!!!
Recycle somehow sounds nicer than garbage or trash?? My how we've changed!! If your bottoms of feet dry out & crack- it can be from Vit B deficiency !!
Mary, you’re my kind of woman. So enjoyed meeting you (on TH-cam). 👍🙏👏🌸
My favorite cooking tool holder is a glass pitcher I found at a junk shop - it's big enough and tall enough to hold lots of tools
Oh my word... you brought back some sweet memories. My little brother and I used to spend our summers biking down our neighborhood alleys looking for cool throw-aways. Then we'd go home and make super weird, unrecognizable crafts out of whatever we found. At the end of summer we put all our "artwork" in our front porch. When anyone came to visit our parents we'd make them pay 25 cents to enter our house because they had to pass through our "museum" to get there. Most people thought it was hilarious but Mom was mortified! =D
Oh my goodness!! What a great story!! LOL!!
Haha that is great!
LOL! I can imagine! My mom was hyper sensitive to what the neighbors thought...five roudy boys, I can imagine why.
I hope you are still making art
What a joy! This lady is filled with the Holy Spirit!
Hi Carol! Wow!! That has to be the best compliment I have EVER received. Thank you!! Love an God Bless, Mary
And wisdom!
Charming
Yes she is! So pleasant💐
He has definitely given her a sweet and peace-filled spirit :)
When I lived in Germany they had one night a month where everyone put things out they no longer want,Anyone that wants it may take it.Then whatever is left over goes to charities and or recycling and lastly the dump.There was a name for that day but I cant remember.Its such a great idea.Thank you for all the great info Mary.Love you sweet friend.Prayer sent for you and your husband and son.
WOW!! What a great idea!! Love to you too, Mary
V Nette it is called Sperrmuell :) where I lived it was only a twice a year thing, but we had fun!!! I recall one year we used an old desk chair with wheels and pushed each other along the side walk - until we got tired of it and left it at another house with junk. Fond memories! I still have a suitcase that used to be fixed as a picknick carrier, I took all that out and stored photographs for a while in it, I think now it holds some of my yarn.
what a great idea
What an awesome idea
It was twice a year where we lived and it was because they are highly taxed on pieces of furniture so they put it out on the curb so people can take it before the tax man comes around
Actually, with your baskets, you should remember they're plant material, and the material is usually in water while people weave their baskets, which makes it easier to work with. So good old dish soap and water, like you wash dishes with, and rinsing and letting dry, often refreshens the basket so it's no longer brittle.
Oh wow, this comment took me back to elementary school days when we used to make them.
Great info
My father used to screw lids with little jars to his workshop shelves and store different size nuts, bolts, screws and nails to keep his shop organized. This brought back that great memory.
I think everyone has done that
Yep my daddy did too in his garage, his been gone since 1985. So yes it brought back some great memories for me as well. 😇
Yes, ditto. But not good for spices outside of the cupboard. There's too much light that deteriorates the spice
I wanted to ad Sweet Mary, my Grandmother used to buy items from the Jewel Tea Company. In her treasures she found a beautiful pint jar from Jumbo peanut butter. It is decorated with a raised design of an elephant and the jar has raised swirls on it. On the bottom in raised lettering is printed June 24 1952. Which happens to be my birthday. It's one of my most treasured items.
Oh GayLee!! What a treasure!! Love, Mary
GayLee that is cool. My son was drinking out of a quilted pattern glass mug he liked. I told him...did you know back in the day peanut butter came in it.
You never know sometimes the history. I liked the juice glasses my grandmother had After I got married my husband and I were visiting her took me aside and said You know those are snuff glasses right? Turns out my country grandma had a little secret tobacco habit
I just love you. You are so soothing. I suffer from anxiety so you are calming.
Oh Rose, I am so sorry to hear that you suffer from anxiety but I am humbled that I can play a small roll in offering you some comfort. Love and God Bless, Mary
Aaawwww
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saves jars...lol They are great for dried herbs, grains etc. Thank you Mary!
I rescued 2 cases of small antique jars from a huge estate sale in Las Vegas. They came with leakproof gold lids. They were from the original Tropicana Hotel from the sixties. $5 for both cases. They were used in the rooms for face cream and lotions. lol I am using them for my herbal apothecary.
I save way too many jars!
Glad to know it’s not just me 🤣😂🤣
I also love finding the stuff our grandmother's used as it's made to last longer and works great without electricity
The best!
Yes I look for old things that can be used without electricity
@@KMF3 absolutely
My husband and kids roll their eyes at my jar collection 😂
Same
The lids exposed to vinegar usually has a small thin piece of styrofoam like barrier. Cut an egg carton the valley that holds the egg is sometimes a little thinner just cut a circle out and insert it into the cap.
Great tip!
My mother loved absolutely loved a junk shop. The more cluttered the better she liked it. She said it was a grown up treasure hunt. The things in her house that people would adore were always junk shop finds. She passed in 2017, oh how I miss seeing her with dirt on her face and hands and hair sticking up everywhere when she had been rummaging around in a "good" junk shop. I laughed when you got to Revere Ware. She had 2 complete sets of cookware (with lids!) and several extra pots and pans. Only a couple of pieces matched exactly. 😂
Such wonderful memories!! Love them!!
My mother and her best friend lived for the same things. Us kids learned great skills to clean up and refurbish and even restore antiques. Depression era parents who always predicted that another Depression was coming again.
@@OneAdam12Adam yes and now understand the why there were always extra cases of canned goods, packages of bathroom necessaries, extra laundry products and so in the basement of my grandparents and parents houses. I should have been better prepared for 2020 🤦♀️ (I knew better)
I’ve been collecting baby food jars. Sometimes you need a tiny jar. They aren’t sold as much so I buy a few every time I find them.
Hi Beth, I was wondering about that. I haven't been down the baby food aisle in a long time. Yes, finding those baby food glass jars is a treasure! Love, Mary
Thank you for the Sweet Memory jarring...my father had shelves above his work bench in the garage. On the underside of the shelves he had screw Baby Food jar lids, then he filled the glass jars with miscellaneous Nuts, Bolts, Washers, Screws, Tacks and Nails. At a glance he could see what he had or needed for a project instead of spending hours digging thru workbenches drawers for the right size of this or that.
Love this idea!!❤️🤗❤️
@@susanschneider-baker49 so did my Dad! Gosh, I miss him!
I made 5 or 6 different home made jelly or jam in my baby food jars. Put a pretty ribbon around the top and gave them as Christmas gifts.
I love jars. Over time, I bought and saved a dozen salad dressing glass jars from the grocery store. I searched Filmore Containers online and purchased the lids for them with the Plastisol Liner so I could water bath can my strawberry syrup! My husband was totally amazed.
my kids loved to play with empty spice jars when they were little so they could pretend they were cooking like I do
I'm the same.Whenever I see an interesting shaped jar at grocery store I have to get it.You can do so many things with glass jars.I save up sets of jars too.Your hubby should be impressed that's pretty awesome.🙂👍♥️
They make great vases too! I love the jar from 4C Parmesan cheese for a flower vase for zinnias. I put some raffia around the top at the threads. I even got multi-color electrical tape to cover the jar threads. Salad dressing bottles are great vases, all glas jars. And the pimeiento spread jars are perfect for smaller flowers
If I had a TH-cam channel I would post exactly this! You are a lady after my own heart!
Wow, thank you!
I just have always had a hard time even consigning jars and bottles to the recycle bin. They really are so useful and cute. I have tons.
When I go thrifting I look for a few baskets. I use them for when I harvest my veggies. I sometimes take my excess produce arrange it prettily in one of the cleaned baskets and take to a friend that doesn't garden and loves fresh vegetables, or a family having a hard time of it.
So thorough and helpful! My neighbor was tossing (recycling bin) dozens of canning jars this past winter and offered them to me. I took what I wanted and even gave some away. Nice!
Wonderful!
My lil dachsund of 16 years loved water in her stainless bowl !! It stayed cooler & cleaner using stainless !!❤😘
My heart jumped when you picked up the Revere Ware saucepan, but I felt an ache when you said to check junk stores for them. I still have several pieces of the Revere Ware my mama selected as a wedding gift for me in February 1961, and they are especially dear to me because I'm sentimental. Besides that, they will boil water faster than my All-Clad will! Sixty years and still going -- the pans, that is. I'm on marriage number four.
I found that coconut oil mixed with baking soda takes off sticky stuff.
Great video!
The jars attached under cabinets reminds me of my grandfather, he did the same thing in his workshop for all the different sizes of screws, nails, bolts, washers, etc. ❤
I always say "one man's junk, is another man's treasure" and it's amazing what some people will throw out! I love Revere Ware, I have 2 sets of it going back to the early 1990's, can't seem to find it anymore. Thanks for the great tips, especially for the jars and baskets! Also, big thanks for taking the time to make and share this video!
How true! Glad you have found some great treasures!! Love, Mary
I have a set of Revere Ware too
It has stayed the course for decades!
Those kitchen sponges with a scrubber on one side will polish the copper bottom up like new in just a matter of minutes.
We were given Revere Ware as wedding gifts in 1957. Still use it......
My revere ware set is from the mid 1970s, but the design didn't change over the years.
I find that at the hardware stores for gasket material. You always have useful information. Thank you for sharing.
Great tip! Thank you!
Do you make the gaskets or do you find the actual gaskets?
@@lovinglife3954 both actually. The gaskets are with the canning materials and silicone or rubber sheeting.
I love the Classico brand pasta sauce jars. They are so pretty and the lids seem like they’re made to be reused.
They fit mason jar lids and I have water bath canned in them.
I use one for my overnight oats. Works perfectly!
I also save the Classico jars and also the Pioneer Woman jars. I cannot bring myself to get rid of them. 🌻🌻🌻
Because it isn't under pressure fm pressure canning, you should be able to reuse the Classico brand jars in a waterbath for your waterbath foods.
I will buy that sauce just to get the jars and lids.
Love this Mary, I’ve done beautiful dark blue bottles I’ve saved over the years , I root my cuttings in them because I have them at the window , the dark blue protects the new roots from direct sun but they look beautiful with the sunlight streaming through them x
Mary, you are a girl after my own heart! Those little plastic containers are great because you can see what is inside them!
I believe from what I've seen & read, ALTON BROWN was first person to utilize 🧲 MAGNETIC STRIPS on bottom (or top) to spice size metal cabinet doors (instead of screws) to simply store & keep everything such as cinnamon, cinnamon sticks, whole clove nutmeg, etc. I'm 62 years old, & I was SO excited to see that. As you know, it take a LOT to get us to be excited 😁 & think something is better than sliced bread! 😁 👍🏻 🏆 🍞 Y'all have a beautiful day. 💛 💗 💕 ♥️ 💜
WOW!! Great tip!! Love the magnet idea!! Love, Mary
I've been saving gin and Sinfire whiskey bottles to use for homemade apple cider vinegar. yes you taught me how to make that :)
Your channel is the most informative and delightful presentations. I too collect glass bottles and jars. The colored ones are getting more challenging to find these days. I finally have a kitchen garden with my favorite herbs. I'm finding parsley is the thirstiest! My granddaughter, while pondering tossing a glass jar exclaimed "I'm turning into Grandma!" But she has found how practical and necessary these items can be. Too many things in plastic, now. Thank you for all your kind words and inspiration!
It sounds like you and your son had some fun times that made for fond memories. That is so precious!💕
Hi Mary, We really did. I just love it when he comes home to visit and we'll run errands together and have a mom and son lunch out. It's such a treat! And he is still as much of a doll as he was when he was a little boy! Love, Mary
@@MarysNest I noticed how sweet he was in a video with you one time. As sweet as you.
Love it! I'm a 'Junker' aka 'Picker'. My mom was a 'Trash Picker' - Love it! Goodwill has the 'Bins' where you can buy things for super cheap also, by the pound. What isn't purchased, what is broken, is left over at the end of the day is put into the dumpster and taken to the dump. These things are still treasures.
I love going through people's recycle bins on occasion, where my daughter lives they throw out great stuff😊 thrift store has been slim pickings since the plandemic😕
How true. Thrift stores are light on goods these days. But yes, recycle bins hold many a treasure! Love, Mary
I discovered pickled pumpkins... I'm going through a Discovery phase. Thanks for the fruit vinegar idea.
I love the beautiful liquor bottles.. I treasure these simple things.
I love your fire place.
I replaced the inner seal with a cut out of a styrofoam plate.
Now I know which cans have the lining. Thanks.... It's fun being different and creative.
Hi Danny, Great tip!! Thanks! Love, Mary
Dark coloured glass jars, small one, good for storing seeds from your own plants from one-year to next.
Minding my own beeswax!!! Hahahaha I laughed out loud at the kick you got out of yourself!!!! Love you hahaha
I LOVE waste diversion!!! Happy to see that I'm not the only one :) so many useful treasures
Just wish I could express how very much I enjoy all your videos. Thank you.
Thank YOU for the kind words!! ❤️🤗❤️
Thank you so much for your recycling wisdom Mary. It all makes "sense" doesn't it?
I was happy to see you out of the kitchen and hope you will sit down with us and let
us share your thoughts with all. Top of the day to you and hubby.
U gimme so many mommy vibes...i lost my mom a few years back n i just found ur vidoes a few days back recommended by another youtuber and i have been hooked...you remind me of my mom u speak with me just the way she would....you explain how she used to....so much love to you all d way from india🤗
Thank You for a lovely reminder that all that's old is new again.
I've Thrifted for decades and saved jars and bottles forever. And forever my family complained about my shelves of 'kitchen junk' covered in jars, containers and treasures until, they needed something from the family farmacy or kitchen. The fun part was they married and discovered the COST of just buying storage containers.. I do get a great laugh over their 'kitchen junk' shelves.
Wonderful!
Dear Mary, Wish we were neighbors! You're a gal after my own heart. Those items are just the kind of things that draw me, too. Great episode. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, thank you!
I'm sure it has been mentioned, but BarKeeper's Friend is ideal for cleaning Revereware (or any stainless/copper pots!). It has oxalic acid; which will remove any tarnish and stains with minimal effort. For stubborn stains, just get the pot wet and sprinkle it over the surface and rub to make a bit of a paste coating. It will lighten before your eyes!
Wow! Great tip!! Thank you!! Love, Mary
Hi Mary!👋
I'm happy you showed your measuring spoons in a container. Mine are getting - challenging.😁 Thank you!💜
Years ago I grew red kuri squash. I used the small deli containers upside down to keep them off the ground. (No bug damage.)
I love to use the jars that pickles or olives come in for long-term dry storage; also glass peanut butter jars. I vacuum seal dried flowers, herbs and fruit in them. Also, we used to be able to find canning jars at thrift shops. With so many people canning, not so much anymore. I have found some Alas jars that spaghetti sauce comes in though. Most of them have the same threading as regular mouth canning jars.
The idea with the lids screwed into something is what my dad used to do in his shop for his nails, screws, washers and such.
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Such great tips!
Love this! You buy what I look for and buy at Thriftstores. I love Thriftstores and junk stores.
You never cease to amaze me. Blessings
You are absolutely precious! You're a gift to youtube and the world!
Oh Mary! I’m with you! So much work, raw materials, design, etc., have gone into these that we paid money for them. We have them now in our possession, they are useful, often beautiful and interesting. Like you said nothing should ever be wasted.
One thing (of too many) I like to collect is trays. So many of them are lovely and even the old cafeteria style ones are good to place under pots of seedlings, or on the counter as an extra place for draining dishes, under jars I am filling up with grains or catching stray bits, for placing under a cutting board when slicing a roast, carrying and serving snacks around, to capture crafting supplies, and some just to lie on a table or stand against the backsplash and look beautiful!
Another is old sewing supplies, that I like to think probably laid around in someone’s old stash, like spools of thread that have a “25 Cents” label, or a collection of wee buttons and zippers for sewing Barbie clothes. I myself keep old treasures in the drawers, like gifts my kids made when they were small, so I can stumble upon them and go down memory lane. I like to think that by gathering old things that they have the history of the former owner, and this somehow adds to their charm!
Of course, this must be rigorously controlled, or build another garage.
Oh Kathy! Thank you so much for sharing all of this!! Love, Mary
Oh yes. Collecting bottles and jars, and lids or tops of all sizes, is something I can’t resist. I even look for orphan lids of all shapes at junk shops. I’ve made darling shabby chic combinations.
It is so nice to see someone who shares my hobby of recycle, upcycle, and repurpose for glass jars, bottles and china/ceramic crocks. I follow your channel now, learning from you all the wonderful potions I can make to put in to them. Once a prepper, always a prepper. My grandmother was one as a farmers wife, I am one too out of necessity. A logical and purposeful way to live. Thank you for sharing all that you have taught. I learn from you every day. Blessings to you and your family.
I bought a car once that had a sticker on it that no amount of 'goo gone' would loosen.
I used Avon skin-so-soft oil on it and it came right off.
Now, I start with goo gone because it does work well on some glues but I don't spend time scraping it, I'll just use the Avon oils a last resort & it never fails to pull all the glue off quickly.
When all the glue is gone & I'm left with an oily bottle, I use the blue Dawn dish soap to desolve & clean all the oil off.
Reusing bottles & jars saves so much money when you mix your own!!
Wow!! What great tips!! Thanks so much!! Love, Mary
I'm so glad I'm not the only one LOL I have love to save jars to use for things. Especially pretty jars or bottles that have a little design on them or like you said a pretty lid. I love Smuckers jars. I save heavy plastic bowls. I don't need Tupper Ware LOL One thing you didn't mention that I collect, and I guess there's not a lot of use for them in the kitchen, is boxes. My son use to tease me when I'd tell him "that's a good box don't throw that out"
Now he's doing it and saying the same thing. I just love it how that turned out after teasing me. LOL I love watching your videos. You are always so cheerful. That's how I try to be too. Who wants to be around an old sour puss right. Thank you for brightening up the day. God's abundant love, favor, blessings and protection on you and your family
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We share a love for empty containers. I especially love tin . You can purchase New corks for your bottles to replace the plastic lids.
Great tip! Thank you!
The lids to the French glasses also fit the small (about 1 cup size) Pyrex or Anchor Hocking storage containers! To remove labels I use peanut butter - any oil will do, but the peanut butter doesn't slide off the jar. Occasionally I have to resort to Goo Gone, but peanut butter (cheap) usually works and it's food safe.
Fun video. We have used those French Working glasses for 43 years, and I have added to them over the years. I got inspired and went to Goodwill today and found 6 of them for a total of $2.64. The thickness of the glass has diminished over the years, but they are still good.
Wow!! What a bargain!!
Thank you! I have a tip for glue residues on glass or plastic bottles and jars. When I soaked the label of and there is some glue residue, I put a little bit of cooking oil or butter on the glue and let it sit for a few hours, or overnight. Then it's very easy to remove the glue by some kitchen paper and washing.
You are so sweet Mary. I feel comfort to watch your videos! Thank you. You information is fantastic!
Omg Mary, my Bubbe was born in 1880s and she always used metal cans for planting her plants! I never forgot that and I am now Ancient and I do the same. Thank you again Mary . 🌺
That is awesome!
I have a full drawer of glass jars!! They are smaller from spices, jams, espresso, etc. I use them for spice blends I make or dried herbs. I started saving them with the plan to organize nuts, bolts, nails and other small hardware. But of course have not gotten around to organizing the hardware drawer yet! Very informative Mary.
One of my most favorite videos I have watched in a long time. I too collect garbage!
Has anyone ever told you that YOU are a treasure??? You provide so much important knowledge...and I thank you so much!!! In my hometown on the Texas/Mexico border, we have a couple of flea markets, a resale/bargain shop run by the hospice, and one especially great junk shop. I am now armed with KNOWLEDGE on what to specifically look for!!
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words!! So glad you're here!! Oh my goodness - I haven't been to a flea market in years. Now you have me wanting to head over to one! Good luck with your hunting!! Love, Mary
@@MarysNest I thought the flea market disappeared! Where can you still find flea markets? My entire childhood/adolescence was spent going to flea markets helping my parents restoring old things. Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia... I miss flea markets! I learned the value of things from that experience.
Mary, you're so great. I just enjoy watching and/or listening to u on the regular while doing so many chores. We have so much in common, and u are just SO sweet and pleasant. Super enjoyable to listen to.
Thank you for all u share❣️
Xoxoxoxo
You have such a calming voice and a super personality...it's now 02:13 in SA and I watch your videos just before bed as your soothing voice tone is so relaxing 😊thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us
Wow, thank you!
@@MarysNest 🤩
I really enjoyed this video, and seeing this side of you. I love the old bottles and usually save my jars. They come in so handy for things. I love eclectic too. My husband and I always enjoyed going through junk shops. You never know what you will find. Unfortunately, he passed away last year, but I still have those treasures to look at and remember the fun times we had together finding them. God bless.
I love your tile choice! It's elegant and cheerful. I also love thrift/junk store shopping. I do it for practially everything; my clothing, kitchen items, dishes, china teacups, strange objects for assemblage art... and my very favorite thing is to do it while I'm away from home. I'm going to Texas later in the spring, and I am SUPER-excited to see what's down that away.
Your story about you and your son buying bread and tomatoes touched me. When my son was 4 years old, he used to ask me to make him a salad sandwich. Fresh bread with a warm tomato sliced fresh from the garden. He wanted the tomato warm from the sun and nothing on the bread. Beautiful memories.
My mom and Dad had one just like the crock and they kept bacon fat in it. I am a product of the '50s and my mother taught us not to waste. We would save such things as buttons, even zippers. I save small bottles for freezer jam.
Recipe please? I know how to make ice cream but not freezer jam. :)
@@kristinatidwell6563 The MCP powdered pectin package has the rescipe in it.
I'm so happy you put this video out. I have done the same thing for years. Now I can tell my family that I'm not alone. LOL...Thanks
I bought an All American pressure canner at a junk store for $20. I've been using it for 3 year's and it still looks brand new. It was very stinky inside. I suspect it was used once, the owner was intimidated, never cleaned it up and later got rid of it. Simmering water with baking soda took all of the odor away.
Amazing find!
Both my pressure canners were garage sale finds, prior to 1993, don't remember what I paid, but way under $50 each. Gaskets and other parts are replaceable, online if you can't find the right part locally.
Mary, how wonderful you are! I truly envy you & the way you live independently!! I am from Austin, living in Seabrook!! I love to hear you mention the HOT Texas sun...Truer words never spoken...My Mom lived in Johnson City years ago, we loved loved Fredericksburg!! All of that is so very different now, but we found some great deals around the Hill Country...Now its so....not out of the way, quiet!!! But I love your channel...have learned so very much. I live in a Condo, not much room for garden, but I'm gonna try small container gardening!! God bless, thanks again, linda
I save the jar covers from mayo jars, they fit canning jars. They're great when storing dry pantry items.
Great tip!
I’m medium simmering my pinto beans for a couple of hours now. Started at 10 p.m. after work and is almost 12 midnight. I had them soaking in water for forty-eight hours,changing the water in between twenty-four hours.They are almost done. I used to cook them on med high heat and that’s why they would always break. These are great.I’ll add the salt and bay leave and let them cool off. Tomorrow after work, I’ll season them the way I usually do with other beans the Cuban way preparing a great sofrito. Thank you for sharing.Happy New Year
Love this Mary. I thought I was the only one that keeps others trash. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
THE SCREWED-IN SPICE JARS! OHMYGOSH! :) Dawn @ Rich & Dawn in MN :)
Glass bottles are treasures! Thanks for all the information and tips!
Love this! I have been a junk shopper my entire life. Except for an air fryer nothing in my kitchen from cookware ,storage or serving dish ware is new. Everything is second hand. I have had people offer me many hundreds of dollars for my everyday dishes that I have collected over the last 40 years and I have never paid more then 1.00 for any piece of it. I have the very best top of the line electric cook ware , never paid more then 15.00 for any of it. It amazes me how many people buy expensive appliances thinking that they will use them and never do.
That "minding my own 🐝 beeswax" crack was freakin' genious! Of course it was, look who said it 🤷🏼
LOL!! Oh Tonya, you are too sweet!! Love, Mary
A hair dryer held onto the label melts the glue enough to get the label off!!! SUPER EASY! Love ya!
Good advice about thrift stores and junking. My wife's step father owns an antique store, but it's more a junk shop to us. It does come in handy from time to time because my mother in law says to go get anything we want for cooking for my channel. There's that classic Mary laughter 18:07 , it's priceless! By the way, we have stored our cooking utensils in crocks on the counter since we got married fifteen years ago. Digging through drawers is a good way to loose a finger 😉
Hi Jim, Oh my goodness!! Yes, isn't that the truth about digging through drawers!! I learned the hard way about 15 years ago! OUCH!! Hope you are having a great week. Love, Mary
Hi Mary and friends... acid is what is needed to lift scorched bunt on food from pots, followed by a steel pot scrubber Makes easy work. Vinegar or lemon. Heat it up like you do with baking soda.
Had to add another comment Mary. My hubby thinks I'm nuts, like you I too save all types of bottles, plastic containers and even cans, especially the mixed Planters large cans, the bigger the better to re-purpose. I was thinking when you held up that can how cute it would be to hot glue some jute, thin cord or rope to make it more appealing and maybe glue on some type of applique like a star fish, anchor, any other type of nautical theme, or even cows, barn, etc. for country look or even flowers and herbs. When hubby gives me "grief" about what I save, I'll tell him, "fine, I'll just go spend x amount of dollars to buy them new!" and with that he shuts his mouth..LOL... There are just way too many great containers now a days to reuse and save money at the same time. Again, really enjoyed the video, thanks again!!
All great tips!
Thank you Mary, Growing up in a family of 9 children, we always shopped thrift stores. Almost all I have in my kitchen is from thrift, yard sales or someone was discarding. I have a small crock with a snap down lid, like your brown one, but it was sour dough starter, originally. I use it for my bacon grease. ❤️🇺🇸
Wow! You're the first person that knew what Revereware was, in 45 years, that I've heard. Revereware was my mother's primary cookware, as well as mine. It still is, although I have to admit that I'm not too consistent at cleaning the copper bottoms.
I also used to enjoy doing a lot of upcycling type of crafts and saved all kinds of jars, bottles, and containers. Besides what you mentioned, I found that lg. sauerkraut jars made the best jars for "gifts in a jar" projects.
I have a large set of Revere Ware gathered through the years, and I treasure it. 😉
I grew up with Revere Ware. Got my own set for my wedding. I've been collecting old Revere Ware for several years. That and cast iron is all I use to cook. It can be brought back from horrible conditions.
I grew up with that exact pot she rescued!
@@secretsiren6769 I have mine from 1961.
I loved traveling and stopping at little antique stores. So fun
Started watching recently; my new favorite “go-to”. I love practical and home style fixings
I love garage and estate sales, thrift shops, and multi-seller malls. We don't have a junk shop per se. I bought most of my rolling pin collection, an old fashioned potato ricer, various tools, jars, a crock, etc.all used. Lots of fun!
I also save and use those same food grade plastic containers and jars. They don't recycle glass in my town. For plastic and paper/cardboard, you have to take it to a community bin elsewhere. I do have a neighbor who brings me all her cardboard boxes, which I use in the garden. Most people don't bother recycling... they just throw stuff out.
Mary you and I would love junking together! I do all these things too! Used to go junking with my Mom and looked for the same types of treasures! She’s from Texas too! And we saved a lot of money since we grew up in a large family! You’re a lot of fun😊 I just enjoy you so much
Oh Marsha, What fun we would have together!! Love, Mary
Omg, you’re such a sweet down to earth lady! I am also into glass bottles, jars and quarts, gallons . Especially, if they are made of real glass? But, i buy pickled herring in quart glass jars and i hav saved every single ine. In summer, i cut up a whole watermelon and put it into these jars and i pull out a glass jar and eat my watermelon. Mary stay as authentic as you are and genuine! It is a pleasure to see someone not Botoxed up or a plastic stretched face. Some of the clothes some of these women wear and trying to hawk a food recipe? Really, makes me wonder what they are trying to sell? Thank you again Mary! 🌺☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
Thank you so much for the kind words!! Love, Mary
Our local hardware store has quite a collection of corks. Some of them look like the wine stoppers.
I have been able to find corks to fit most any of the bottles that I reuse.
Wow! That is fantastic!
Now I need to go to the local hardware! 😁
Wow! Kindred spirit! I thought I was the only crazy lady that saved bottles, plastic, etc. And, junking! My mom when she was alive started....and started me on this early on as we were Hungarian Immigrants (1956). She furnished a little basement apartment in upstate NY using stuff found or what she called the SA store(Salvation Army)She loved antique everything. I am 65 and worry that glass will be used less and less. I am new to your channel and have subscibed! Thanks for a lovely video and you are also lovely with a beautiful smile and personality to match! Hello from Greenacres Fl !
♥️👋Thanks for inspiring me and cheering me up. I agree, those older bottle are gems, everything you showed gives more of a homey kitchen with atmosphere🎆🤗
Thank you for sharing great tips. I’ve started keeping all glass bottles and jars. U r so right. They r treasured. I hardly use any plastic anymore. Great ideas
"Minding my own beeswax" you are just wonderful! Thank you.
I'm with you, the bad thing is I live in a small place, and I have a hard time throwing out certain bottles.
Good info...FYI, you can water bath tomatoes but you have to make sure that they are high acid tomato. There's so many kinds of tomatoes that we can grow or get off the shelf that are not high acid and those do need to be pressure cooked.
I totally agree with you about the glass thermos.
In our local quilt group, some of us go through resale and junk shops and find old quilt squares or unfinished or unquilted quilt tops that have most probably been dropped off by relatives when a quilter dies. Old folklore relates that a part of a quilter lives on in her quilts. When we finish such quilts, I try to imagine who she was and what her life was like. I think it might make her happy to know that someone treasured what she did.
These quilt tops can go for ridiculously cheap because heirs don't realize their value.
If you should happen to find these, check with your local quilt group and see if they would like them.
Oh my goodness, I just spent a long time writing some things in the comments and accidentally touched my screen and it all disappeared. I don’t know if it sent or not. I haven’t slept since yesterday morning. I’m going to bed know but please know I appreciate you and all the hard work you put into this channel.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Have a great sleep!! Love, Mary❤️😘❤️
Try a low dose of zink before bed.
This is my first time watching you.
I'm in love 😘
Ok.... Confession
I very often purchase products for their containers... 🤭
I save almost everything.. LoL
Sometimes I do pay a bit more for something if it has a perfect jar or box or tin etc.
I reuse all the large clamshell types. They work very well in pantries and refrigerator/freezer to corral thing's.
You know... Like All the videos showing how to organize. I use those or "good" larger box's cut to perfect size.