The peanut butter we buy comes in glass jars, and we tend to go through a lot of peanut butter. Therefore, we have an abundance of glass jars with metal lids that we use for storage, be it dried herbs, marbles, pasta, etc. We also use them for leftovers in the fridge, and for freezing milk, colostrum, or raw squid. Not kidding about the squid…every February we go squidding, and the peanut butter jars are the perfect size for storing a meal’s worth of squid for our family. Honestly…best squid I’ve ever had!
Anyway, there are a couple other great uses for the jars which I will pass onto you!
First off, they make a great dog treat! Our dogs have never broken the glass, and lick just about every peanut butter particle out of the jar, happily. If you have crazy dogs who might break the jars, then I wouldn't try doing this. But, for our dogs, getting a peanut butter jar in a crate is great entertainment! Its a lot easier to clean out a little bit of dog spit from a jar than peanut butter residue! I read in a ‘Dear Abby’ article that automatic dishwashers get hot enough to kill all germs…and that some folks even put their cat litter boxes in there to wash them. Dear Abby said it was ok. I say that’s GROSS!!! Nuh-uh, no-way am I going to do that! But…a washed and bleached peanut butter jar that had a little bit of dog spit in it does not scandalize me. I am a HOMESTEADER.
The other neat thing we do with our extra peanut butter jars is to make cheap, highly effective roach traps with them. We have palmetto bugs here…a.k.a. American roaches. They prefer to live outside, but will occasionally come inside. So, we set up traps in a few closets here and there. This is also effective in sheds. Simply take a jar and a little bit of petroleum jelly, and make a ½ inch stripe of the jelly about one inch down from the top, along the inside the rim. This makes a barrier that the roaches can pass going in, but can’t climb it to try to go out. Then put in a piece of old candy or dog kibble, and place the open jar upright wherever roaches tend to congregate. I imagine this would also work well for German cockroaches, but have never tried it myself as we don’t have them. When we get a couple bugs in there, we carry it out to the chicken coop. It does not take long for the chickens to learn that a human carrying a peanut butter means treat-time!
So, there you have it! Two new great uses for glass peanut butter jars!
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