[Juletones]

Do you keep and reuse your old candle jars? If so, what do you use them for? Which ones are deemed keepers and which do you recycle?

I recycle most of mine. If I kept them all, I'd be overrun. I'm most likely to keep one with a sealing lid. I like the square jars from Circle E. They stack well.

[cmarie]

I tried to keep a large Yankee jar for storing tarts once, but the shape of the jar didn't agree with the 2 oz tart cups and I could only fit in about three. I recycle almost all of mine. Once in a while there is a different shape or "look" to a candle jar and then I will save it. The one from my Diamond Candle might be good for something. But you can only keep so many.

My best clear jar I've kept used to have homemade ice cream cones in it. It's still a cylinder style, but much taller and wider/bigger than a Yankee jar. That one holds all my floral tarts and I love that it's clear.

[Aria]

I toss or recycle my jars.

[MaggieMae]

The only jars I keep are the McCalls...I buy the button style tarts and keep them in the same named jar.

[jedda]

I don't keep them. I just don't have enough room for storage.

[debra99]

I wash mine, move them around the house from place to place, "keeping them" until I get tired of playing that game and realize that I just need to recycle and move on!

[shortygal201]

I don't keep mine, I have enough clutter around!

[hazel]

I don't keep any either. Although some soy candles come in jars that would make great glasses!

[cyngreen2]

I will keep nice, heavy jars that would make good juice glasses. Also some unusual or extraordinary candle jars I will keep. I put them on display or use them to hold things like keys, jewelry.

I do get rid of most of my jars, though. I will use them as a container for pouring out hot wax (from my melts) and then get rid of them when full.

[Juletones]

cyngreen2, on 09 March 2012 - 02:49 AM, said:

I will keep nice, heavy jars that would make good juice glasses. Also some unusual or extraordinary candle jars I will keep. I put them on display or use them to hold things like keys, jewelry.

I do get rid of most of my jars, though. I will use them as a container for pouring out hot wax (from my melts) and then get rid of them when full.

I like this idea.

[cmarie]

I do too, and I've done it before. Can you still recycle glass when it's full of wax, though? I like to make sure my glass jars get recycled and then fill something else with wax that would have been trash anyway, like a big styrofoam cup or something.