We Repurpose Wednesday: The Wonderful Mason Jar!

So, once you get into the whole "self sufficiency" lifestyle you're going to notice something.  *Leans in close* Mason jars?  It seems like they GROW or something!  Not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination, but if you, like me, HATE to throw away ANY glass jars...well you start to end up with a little "issue" of things to do with some of them.  So, here's just SOME ideas (I might have to make this a series honestly) on how to reuse your empty mason jars.

Image Courtesy of Big Red Kitchen

Big Red Kitchen shows you HERE (well starts to since it's an ongoing series right now :) on how to make your own mason jar meals (don't they look pretty???).

Thanks to Our Best Bites for use of the image

 Our Best Bites shows you HERE how to make individual pies in a 1/2 pint mason jar.  I love this idea an am hoping to make some, cap them and then stack them in the freezer for go to desserts later!  So much fun :).

Thanks to Weeping Cherries for use of the image.

What household DOESN'T have hose clamps in Alaska?  Just take some hose clamps, some mason jars and some wall molding pieces and go to town on this cool mason jar wall organizer :).

NOTE:  The Above Image was removed due to demand by the copyright owner).  Look up "Mason Jar Chandelier" on Google to view the image on Pinterest I guess.  Enjoy!

Grab a canning jar rack, some jars and some string lights and you got yourself one cool chandelier!

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The Common Cents Home shows you HERE how to make your own foaming mason jar soap dispenser.  I think these are so cool looking!

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Martha Stewart shows you HERE how to make etched glass storage jars.  This would be especially cool to use on those big jars from pickles and such :).

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Raised in Cotton shows you HERE how to make mason jars into oil lanterns.

Photojojo shows you HERE how to make jar photo frames.

Our Big Earth shows you HERE how to make jar terrariums out of things your kids find.  Good one for home schoolers :).

Under the Shelf Organizer

Yarn Dispenser

Magnetized Storage Strip

 Home Made Simple shares a BUNCH of cool ideas HERE on different things to do with mason jars.  Some of them are pictured above.

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Martha Stewart shows you HERE how to make your own mason jar sewing kit.

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Go HERE where Gingerbread Snowflakes shows you how to make your own Mod Podge mason jar lanterns (or jar lanterns period :).

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Martha Stewart shows you HERE how to make jelly jar candles (8 oz. jelly jars work out to be 1/2 pint, by the way...just use straight sided or wide mouth mason jars, not regular mouthed so they don't build up heat...that's at least my advice).

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Organized Christmas gives you one nice list of gifts you can make and give in a jar HERE.

And there you go folks.  Hope something sparked your creativity here ;).  Enjoy your jars!  I know I love mine!