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Meghan’s April Fool?

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RosieandherMaw Tue 01-Apr-25 15:14:43

From The Tines this morning
Imagine if I told you I was giving you something “in keepsake packaging that you can repurpose to tuck away love notes or special treasures, and to remember this pivotal moment with me”. You would look at me strangely and ask if I should perhaps seek specialist medical help, and you would be right. And if I then told you that this keepsake packaging could be used as a “small bud vase for flowers on your nightstand or to hold pens on your desk”, could you guess what it was ?
A vintage piece of pretty china, say? Big reveal: it's a jam jar^

Whouda thunk?
Using an old jam jar for pencils? (Who uses pencils?)
Personally I put mine through the dishwasher and re use them for the next batch of raspberry jam -sorry, spread

Boz Thu 03-Apr-25 13:18:18

Diana would have turned in her grave to know her silly younger son had aligned himself with a grade b Californian Hustler.

Allira Thu 03-Apr-25 12:52:50

twiglet77

As a child I repurposed jam jars to hold sticklebacks caught at the brook with a net, or caterpillars, snails (or perhaps they went in a biscuit tin), and occasionally petals to make perfume for my mother!

Oh yes, that smelly 'perfume' made from rose petals 😁

twiglet77 Thu 03-Apr-25 12:48:05

As a child I repurposed jam jars to hold sticklebacks caught at the brook with a net, or caterpillars, snails (or perhaps they went in a biscuit tin), and occasionally petals to make perfume for my mother!

twiglet77 Thu 03-Apr-25 12:45:03

I’ve just rinsed the pretty fluted jar from my Morrison’s “The Best” Seville orange and ginger marmalade. Later in the summer I will fill it with home made jam.

Love notes? Seriously?

Cressida Thu 03-Apr-25 11:55:42

If that's genuinely supposed to be an April Fool it's missed the mark as far as I'm concerned cos I don't get it.

RVK1CR Thu 03-Apr-25 11:36:40

AGAA4

Does Meghan not realise that people have been using empty jam jars for other purposes for a very long time. My dad used to soak paint brushes in jam jars. I used a jam jar for paper clips when I was working. My sister stored cotton wool balls in one.

My aunt told me she kept her "nylons" in a jam jar, when they first came out and were dear.

Esmay Thu 03-Apr-25 11:33:04

For £10.80 you could buy an attractive container .
Found some Bonne Maman jam today - nothing beats the taste and the jar is very pretty .

Granarchist Thu 03-Apr-25 10:50:02

uses for jam jars:-
home made marmalade
bottling excess garden produce - tomatoes etc
storing seeds safe from mice
keeping nails/screws and easy to see which is which
soaking paint brushes
biro and pencil holder
bud vase - not so much - in fact not ever.
Bonne Maman rule

Ilovedogs22 Thu 03-Apr-25 10:30:41

Wow! So much venom directed towards Megan.
Some people believe everything they read in the tabloids? Surely not!
Just as Diana was touted as a saint, Megan is portrayed as the
anti Christ, neither of which is probably correct.
Diana, for all you fervent royalists out there, would probably be turning in her grave on hearing all the bile directed at her beloved son & his young family. 🤔

GrannyGravy13 Thu 03-Apr-25 10:02:28

Not just the honey which is sold out so is one of her jams, sorry cannot remember if it was the strawberry or raspberry one.

NotSpaghetti Thu 03-Apr-25 10:00:52

I think her honey is expensive partly because of the wasteful way it's harvested.
Why not do what most beekeepers do and invest in (or borrow) a centrifuge?

She is wasting hours of both "bee work" in recreating the cells - and honey!

It's a bit like only selling cut comb honey.

ViceVersa Thu 03-Apr-25 09:59:55

eazybee

Meghan will be laughing all the way to the bank. Her honey, £21 a jar, has all sold out. One more reason to ignore american goods.

Apparently everything is 'sold out', but there's a lot of speculation that it's simply another PR stunt.

TerriBull Thu 03-Apr-25 09:59:42

"Her Honey £21 a jar has sold out"

It's a marketing ploy, I remember having a conversation years ago with my then 8 year old about some "precious rare Pokemon card" It's only rare because the manufacturers print so few, they could flood the market tomorrow and then it wouldn't be so precious. Create a few of anything, hype it up, and hey presto it's sold out. Mass appeal though hmm when most have an eye to rising food costs. Can't think her thimbles full of honey jam and the beyond frivolous,flowers are going to be hitting the shelves of Walmart anytime soon.

Anniebach Thu 03-Apr-25 09:33:50

How does she manage to cause such distress to many

eazybee Thu 03-Apr-25 08:42:25

Meghan will be laughing all the way to the bank. Her honey, £21 a jar, has all sold out. One more reason to ignore american goods.

imaround Wed 02-Apr-25 23:26:13

I am actually wondering who is having the last laugh here?

NotSpaghetti Wed 02-Apr-25 23:21:42

grin

Allira Wed 02-Apr-25 23:19:12

Yes, yes, yes! 😁

NotSpaghetti Wed 02-Apr-25 23:18:47

No, Allira not apricot, please!

Allira Wed 02-Apr-25 23:00:23

Chocolatelovinggran

Spot on Angiewub: the Bonne Maman family firm were amazing in WW2.
I like to read ingredients and Bonne Maman products are great - including their biscuits and puddings ... 😋 yum.

Apricot jam 👍

Allira Wed 02-Apr-25 22:59:20

Deedaa

I see the edible flowers are £15 a jar, so I may have to give them a miss. I wonder whether some of this stuff is new to American women so they may find it really interesting?

Pansies must be edible as something's been nibbling mine!

Chocolatelovinggran Wed 02-Apr-25 21:22:55

Spot on Angiewub: the Bonne Maman family firm were amazing in WW2.
I like to read ingredients and Bonne Maman products are great - including their biscuits and puddings ... 😋 yum.

Celieanne86 Wed 02-Apr-25 21:07:37

I’m quite impressed with my own recycling idea for jam jars. I have spider plant babies and money plant cuttings growing quite happily in my laundry room ready to be potted on for sale at the next church spring fair or coffee morning. Also my grandchildren who love painting when they visit use jam jars for the water and I dont have a nightstand sorry but I do collect marbles and they look quite pretty in the big glass coffee jars, so many ideas I dont know which to go with next 😁

Deedaa Wed 02-Apr-25 21:02:14

I see the edible flowers are £15 a jar, so I may have to give them a miss. I wonder whether some of this stuff is new to American women so they may find it really interesting?

Allira Wed 02-Apr-25 19:55:20

Keep 'em coming, Terribull

Boil it like Beckham 😁 hope he used white eggs like Delia!

Ps I'm hopeless with cooking eggs, leave it to Himself.