Stacking cases of empty jars, How High?

Out of curiousity how high do you stack your empty cases of jars on each other? I have to store over a 100 cases and would like to use as little room as possible without taking a chance of breaking the ones on the bottom. Thanks

Most of mine are older, in full boxes, and I stack them six high (with one side against the wall) with no worries. However, the new ones in only half-boxes with plastic sealed over them just don't stack well in my opinion. Once you take the plastic off to open them, that half-box is pretty flimsy. I won't stack them more than two high of quarts or three of pints. I'm trying to find full boxes to put them all in. I just ordered 48 more dozen myself, so that's a lot of boxes to find, lol.

6 in qts,8 in pints, 4 in the half gallons. I've practiced this many times, and these are what mine will stand strong either full or empty in the cases. I have stacks of them all over the house in different places. I use them as end tables (3 qt boxes high), stacked in the corner behind the refrigerator, stacked behind the door with a table cloth on them and flowers on top, etc.

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They are pretty light. I have some stacked 6 high,but they could go higher if the head room was ava. In one place they are stacked 4 high on a shelf- 4 rows and it hasen't bothered the shelf.

The 4acrossx3deep boxes from the liquior store hold 2 doz pints nicely. The quarts fit in the boxes that hold 6 bigger booze bottles, but have some wasted space. I haven't found a good booze box for the half gallons..... yet. Maybe some of the special sizes that come out around the holidays.... I'll keep looking.

If they are new and unused, I stack them 10-12 high.....several across... make sure the weight is shifted toward the wall. If I have used -empties I stop about 6 cases high. I always keep the original boxes and place them upside down in the box. This will give you a flatter/ more stable surface inwhich to place the next flat of jars.
I have an entire wall in my garage stacked with several hundred cases... work great.

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Don't know, lol, they are all strung out across the basement floor!

Don't you just hate the new boxes, if you can call them that. I don't take the plastic off I cut it down the middle and then on each end, leaving enough to tuck along the sides. The cut is in an "I" shape. It helps keep them from being so flimsy. I saw this on a tv show where they had cases of moonshine. Can't remember what show it was now though.

Great idea, Thanks!

These are both great ideas, thanks! I'll try those in the meantime. Yes, I hate that flimsy packing they use now, when I got my K-Mart order and saw how haphazardly they were packed in THEIR boxes, I just knew there was goind to be breakage! Luckily, I didn't have any any (by some miracle, lol) but quite a few others did.

Like 3ravens said though, I use liquor store boxes and am scouting more for "good" boxes, lol. They are too tall for quarts, but I cut them down with a box cutter and make them fit. I really like them because they're heavy and have the paperboard dividers in them.

If you store your jars upside down in the new half-cases for stability, just make sure to put some sort of padding on the bottom. I had a couple of chipped rims on the bottom cases in my stack and learned the hard way. I now prefer to stack my jars (right-side up) on wall mounted rail & bracket shelving units that I can adjust to the exact heights of the boxed cases to save space. If you're just storing empties, the cheaper light-duty standards and brackets are fine. I'd use regular or heavy-duty for cases of full jars though.