I paid 49 cents yesterday for jars at the thrift store here. Stil cheaper than new jars.

The used jars at Goodwill range from $1-2 each depending on size and who's pricing them. Even the Classico jars are $2. I can get them with sauce in them for that on sale!

Yeah, I bought some blue special edition pints at Target for $8.99 (half dozen) but won't buy others there. Actually, I think they're a little less than the grocery store - I think quarts were 10.99 at Target and they're $12.99 at grocery store. Still less than Goodwill - I'll pick up a jar now and then when they're half price, and sometimes have gotten quilted crystal (some brand new unopened cases) for $8 there but not often I luck out like that. I passed up a case of GH quarts last month thinking I had plenty but then I got the PC and started doing tomatoes, wish I'd snagged them.

Walmart is still the cheapest, though if they keep going up, Bog Lots (GH jars) will be - but they don't carry them year-round.

TSC has pints and quarts on clearance now, but only in-store, not online. Guess I have to stop by this weekend and see what my local store has.

Target and the craft stores are the only places I've seen the smooth jars - but Joann's has them on sale now $16.49 for a case of 12.

The cheapest jars I've bought (my first year canning) were the Ball half-pint non-quilted jars. They were $6.99 for a case of 12 at K-Mart earlier this year.

A few weeks ago, Meijer's (a regional chain supermarket here) was selling Ball half-pint and 12 oz. quilted jelly jars for $7.99 a case.

For Ball pints and quarts the prices are between $9-12 a case depending on the store and whether you want wide mouth or regular. Wide mouth costing more.

Pints and quarts at the Salvation Army Thrift Store sell for 99 cents a piece, with half-pints selling for 49 cents. I buy the half-pints whenever I see them.

The only place I've seen Golden Harvest jars (I believe they were pints) was at Dollar Tree and they were $1 a piece. So not exactly a deal.

Rodney

I'm going to have to check out Kmart (on the other side of town) next year when I need jelly jars again.

Our town has sold out of most jars, except WM (they have a shipment from the warehouse almost every week, if you don't find them, ask). Lids are also rare to find. I picked up several boxes of jars at the end of season, and I'm glad I did. We have dumped out about 12 dozen jars of old jelly (about 7 years old). I think I'll have enough jelly jars for this coming year, but the rest, I'm not sure. I know I need another 20-30 dozen lids, just to get started this next year.

I've already emptied my freezer of all of the strawberries, plums, cherries and have used about 1/2-3/4 of the blueberries and about 1/4-1/3 of the red grapes and concord grapes. I'm only doing the jams at this time, and canning up the juices for jellies later.

Joann's is down to $10.99 for a case of those smooth ones - check your local store. One closest to me is all out.

This post was edited by ajsmama on Sat, Nov 16, 13 at 8:53

I'll have to look at Joann's, (I'm becoming re-addicted to sewing again, that's a bad place for me). $10.99 is still expensive for what I get. Are they pints or qts? I can still get at WM cheaper.

They're the smooth-sided quarts. More expensive than the regular quarts, but if you really wanted no embossing so you could put you own label on them (or for crafting) this is one of the few places I've seen them and for the lowest price.

Ok, thanks Sheila, I think I'm ok with quarts, but remember I was worried earlier about not having enough. I don't need the plain kind for qts, just pts.

BTW, I found regular mouth lids at my local Kmart for $1.34 per dozen. Needless to say, I stocked up with another 20 boxes. I should have got more, but I didn't want the cashier to think I was any crazier than she does with 20 dozen.

The wide mouth weren't on sale yet. Neither was the jars. I picked up another 6 dozen of 1/2 pint (not quilted) at WM for $7.97 per dozen.

Marla

Yeah, just a few years ago the half pints were under $7 at WM.

TSC sold out in my area. Too bad - I wanted to pick up some salt. I don't know about Mrs. Wages, I did like the Ball salt I got a couple of years ago (just used the last of it this year). Morton's was less $, but used that this year for fermenting and my dills & half sours turned out really salty. Must be ground finer than Ball - next year I'm going to have to weigh it instead of measuring.

I use Kosher salt that my DIL bought at Kroger. 3 lb box. I think I'll be OK for awhile. I don't use alot of salt, I'm on a low/no salt diet and have been for years and years. The Kosher is a coarser grind than Morton (which is what I used before this). Just the regular blue box for most of my life.

I don't need any pectin, but am watching for fruit fresh to go on sale (clearance last year was down to 50 cents per jar). I picked up some Mrs. Wages Salsa mix for 99 cents per pouch, instead of the 2.99 regular.

This year I made a mistake and put the pasta sauce mix into instead of the salsa, then added the salsa. Came out better than only salsa. Now I have to make more of the 'special' salsa. The grandkids love it, but not the plain salsa or pasta alone.