how many fruit jars do you have?

[FarmboyBill]

I don't really care, but I just wanted to put this on here, as here is where I mostly post.
I am moving and yesterday, I moved my fruit jars. I counted them.
204 Qt jars
84 Pt jars
29 !/2 pts
41 Wide mouth qts
3 W M pts
4 WM 1/2 pts

355 total fruit jars.

[Danaus29]

Jars of canned fruit?

[TnAndy]

I'd guess in the 1200 range counting 1/2 pint, pint, quart and 1/2 gallon.

I bought a pallet of 60 cases of wide mouth quarts some years back (720 jars). The rest have been bought here and there a case at a time.

The follow up question is how many lids do you have for them ?

[FarmboyBill]

Around 1/2. Some couple doz with zink lids.
Around 3 doz more filled with veggies

[po boy]

Not sure, but in the hundreds with about 600 full.......................

[7thswan]

I figure about 4000. About 60-70 % full. Dear Husband, I do not need any more jars, unless ofcourse You see any OLD dark purple, milk glass... This is the last jar I've bought:.....(yes, those are real wearable shoes 7 1/2 / yes ,sealable jar,not salt or pepper)

[TnAndy]

Originally Posted by 7thswan

I figure about 4000. About 60-70 % full.

I'm curious on a couple points:

1. Where do you store that many jars, empty or full ?

2. How many do you go thru a year ?

[frogmammy]

I have 10 quart jars with lids. These are mine!

However, my daughter cans just about anything and her family has seven kids, so whenever I find a good amount at an estate sale, I buy them. Biggest haul was the last few hours of an estate sale, found jars all OVER the outbuildings. Made a one money offer and then had to call a friend to help me box them up. 32 boxes of assorted sizes of jars, small jelly, large jelly pint/quart/gallon. Some of them VERY old. My absolute BEST ever jar find!

Mon

[FarmboyBill]

Im going to loan my DDIL 50 tomorrow as she thinks shes a canner. Shes already did a few qts of corn and is now looking at beans. Im going to tell her that, when the time comes that she realizes that shes BTDT and shes through with canning, I get the jars back. FILLED lol

[7thswan]

Originally Posted by TnAndy

I'm curious on a couple points:

1. Where do you store that many jars, empty or full ?

2. How many do you go thru a year ?

I go thru about 1000 per year. I have a pantry that I keep all my home canned goods in 3 jars deep and a place under the stairs for H.canned food in boxes. I store boxes of all kinds full with emptys in a seperate room (laundry)on a shelf above the machines and on metal shelves against the walls, and in the pole barn.
Canning for me is more natural than freezing,but we do keep 3 freezers and 2 reefers ,1 refer for just summer use when produce is harvested from my gardens faster than I can put it up. I'm also of the mind that canned food keeps for years so some things I do not do every year,like 50 lb. bags of kidney beans canned up. I also cann jams,but do not use them ourselves in pints,those are for family, i do not like sweets/sugar.ps. those bannanna boxes contain potatoes and no, I am not in an earthquake zone,so no need for protection on the shelves.

[7thswan]

Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

I don't really care, but I just wanted to put this on here, as here is where I mostly post.
I am moving and yesterday, I moved my fruit jars. I counted them.
204 Qt jars
84 Pt jars
29 !/2 pts
41 Wide mouth qts
3 W M pts
4 WM 1/2 pts

355 total fruit jars.

Can't imagine moving all my canned goods. I did once take everything out of the pantry and wipe it down. That was the last of my sanity, or should I say insanity.

[NEfarmgirl]

I am guessing around 750-1000 because I 1. have not counted them and 2. kept track of canning one year and stopped when I got to 550 jars of food and had plenty more jars. I did buy a couple dozen more since I am always short on quart wide mouth jars. I have tons of rings and around 700 lids on hand. I buy lids throughout the year so I have them when I need them. Come canning season it is hard to find them here. I have a large electrical room that holds most of the canned goods and a large pantry on the main floor that holds a lot.

We also dry quite a bit and store the dried food in canning jars too. That helps save space.

[frogmammy]

7thswan, way to go!

Mon

[FarmboyBill]

Heck, Im about a piker as far as jars go, and here I thought I had a few lol

[7thswan]

Originally Posted by FarmboyBill

Heck, Im about a piker as far as jars go, and here I thought I had a few lol

Bill, I've been doing this sinse I could stand on a chair and help my Mom,she would never use a pressure canner tho. I also have many other memories of standing on that chair cleaning smelt,washing dishes or without and hopping up to get dishes/ceral to feed my siblings-and I still have the scar from stiches on my chin from a "slip".

[paintlady]

When I Moved I moved 70 full cases plus about 50 new jar cases.

[FarmboyBill]

7th My mom never had a pressure canner either. She knew of people who had them explode. Ive got 2 pressure canners, and 2 or 3 water bath canners

[gotmules]

Apparently, I don't have nearly enough!

[FarmboyBill]

Well, I gave her the 50 qts. NOW she wants that many pints.

[texican]

haven't got a clue how many.... know I don't have enough. If I had ten thousand, I'd still not have enough. Alas, it's been four years since I got a mega-haul of free jars, and have *gasp* actually had to buy some virgins...