Meghan’s April Fool?

Allira

Romola

Be patriotic and buy British jam!

But the jars aren't as nice as the Bonne Maman ones, which can be re-used for home-made preserves!

I keep my sea glass collection in mine! I’ve never thrown one out and have sometimes had to rescue one from recycling when my partner puts one with everything else.

I use pencils all the time, as I draw. They are usually in an old mug. But I keep all good looking jars….in case

M0nica

I went on a visit to a waste incinerator. The visit included a talk on recycling. We were told very firmly always to put the lids back on containers, even when they were made of different materials. Something to do with size and weight and where in the process they would be sperated.

Our council says to put lids separate to their containers,

It’s on their website, also in huge lettering on the side of their recycling lorries.

Why is the guidance different, I wonder? 🤷‍♀️

I'm afraid DD and I laughed for far too long about keepsake packaging! My nightstand is covered in books, no room even for a daisy. I fear my life just isn't meaningful enough.

I use pencils, very sharp, for note-taking, along with a black gel pen and a pink highlighter. (me? Anal?)But they reside in a circular (cardboard ?) container with pictures from the Bayeux tapestry on the side. Jam jars are entirely the wrong shape: too wide and too short. And I don't eat jam, only marmalade.
Interested to know how much this amazing jam, sorry, spread, costs.

Anniebach

Will they elevate ?

No but might levitate?

If I put a jam jar of flowers on my nightstand, Peggy would be delighted….She’d drink it!

😁 NotSpaghetti exciting

I use pencils and prefer them to pens.
I have various sorts from about 4H to 8B.
The ones that I take about with me in my bags are propelling ones so I don't need to carry a knife/pencil sharpener.

Romola

Be patriotic and buy British jam!

Agree. Even better grow your own and make the jam. If you can.

Anniebach

Will they elevate ?

She’s already been elevated tho hasn’t she? Duchess of Los Angeles or something.Or did you mean the jam jar? Lord Jam Jar has a nice ring to it.😁

Allira

She's pulling the other one, surely?
These jamjars are aan identical shape to the ones I bought in Wilkos for my home-made jam, a dozen in carton, can't remember the price. Except they're much, much smaller. I couldn't keep all my love notes in one that size!

Sadly I don’t get love notes, but I could put my Tesco receipts in there.🤔

Quote Oreo Tue 01-Apr-25 18:36:28
Anniebach
Will they elevate ?
She’s already been elevated tho hasn’t she? Duchess of Los Angeles or something.Or did you mean the jam jar? Lord Jam Jar has a nice ring to it.😁

She certainly has been elevated that smile she is soooo high.

Well, she says she’s a keen gardener Anniebach so who knows what she grows in the veggie patch?🤭

This could work with a jam jar?
Maybe a smaller pencil?

youtube.com/shorts/9ARNCEMeI4w?si=NUw-hjCob4cvZDZr

All for people with more money than sense!

I’ve used pretty jam jars for years for all sorts of stuff and the Bonne Maman ones are great.Fill with favourite sweets and tie ribbon round them, grow herbs on the window sill from seeds in compost,fill with rubber bands or paperclips.I think now I need my own Netflix show, as I also could show how to cut up clean knickers once past their prime, for dusters, turn old socks into puppets to amuse tiny tots, cut down old wellies a bit and grow Spring bulbs in them. Where do I sign the contract?💰💰

Quote Oreo Tue 01-Apr-25 18:44:58
Well, she says she’s a keen gardener Anniebach so who knows what she grows in the veggie patch?🤭

Ooooh, I remember a keen gardener , her mother walking around my friends garden asked what is that pointing at something in the garden ? friend said in panic ‘day scented stock’ 🫢

I’ll soon be digging our store of jam/marmalade jars out again - I need to make more apple chutney! Last September’s batch is nearly finished. But at least there are still plenty of UK apples in the shops.

I don’t have a ‘nightstand’ BTW. I do have a bedside chest, though.

My mum told me that when she was pregnant in the 1950’s she was told to have some empty fish paste jars to hand. I suppose that doesn’t have the ring of ‘keepsake packaging’ but they were useful to safely store a thermometer, apparently.

Loving this thread.
Now, those fish paste jars would have made pretty bud vases.

valdavi

Loving this thread.
Now, those fish paste jars would have made pretty bud vases.

I used to put primroses and daisies in them which I'd picked for my mother 🙂

I'm not sure what a nightstand is. I've heard of a 'one night stand'. Is it similar? 😀

Calendargirl

M0nica

I went on a visit to a waste incinerator. The visit included a talk on recycling. We were told very firmly always to put the lids back on containers, even when they were made of different materials. Something to do with size and weight and where in the process they would be sperated.

Our council says to put lids separate to their containers,

It’s on their website, also in huge lettering on the side of their recycling lorries.

Why is the guidance different, I wonder? 🤷‍♀️

Same here, we have to remove tops from glass, and recycle the tops with plastic and metals.

AGAA4

I'm not sure what a nightstand is. I've heard of a 'one night stand'. Is it similar? 😀

😂😂😂