Ball Canning Jars At A Crazy Great Price

Do you can?  I do.  Not much.  A few preserves.  To use mostly as gifts.  Salsa.  Which I give sparingly as gifts because I hoard it for myself.  And sometimes something quirky like pickled watermelon rind or banana pineapple jam.

But jars are awesome for a million other uses.  Like vases or storage or casual water glasses and the list goes on.  Check out Pinterest for awesome ideas.

Plus, jars last forever.  Seriously, they are a lifetime purchase.  You just need to buy new tops if you plan to can with them. 

Right now, Lowes has them on a crazy, super awesome sale.  Prices and availability vary by region.  Because the best deal is to ship them for free to the store.  So you are limited to what your store has available. 

But at these prices, I am absolutely stocking up for next summer's canning. 

Getting Started

I've decided that The Krazy Coupon Lady's system, involving clipping ALL her coupons and placing them into plastic baseball card album pages, makes the most sense for me.  So I set out yesterday afternoon to pick up her suggest two packages of baseball card album pages.  I was already at Target and walked all over the darn store.  (You should know that Tar-jay is my mecca so I was sort of OK with this.)  I asked three employees and they all sent me different directions on a hunch.  All were wrong and I eventually left.

My Target is very close to Walmart (the one in Latham- which by the way has it's frozen and fridge foods selection up and running and starting to get stocked as of this week) so I popped in to find them.  30 minutes later, with the determination of an insane person, after asking no fewer than five very hard to find employees, after hunting down a male employee specifically thinking he would surely know (he didn't- and in the end he was standing about 10 feet from them), getting incorrect directions but they got me close enough...I finally found them. 

So let me give folks a head's up.  Baseball card plastic sheet binder protector things are located with the baseball cards in the very front of the store on the last check out lane aisle.  They are not in crafts, paper/plastics, office supply, sports, electronics, scrapbooking, sewing, stationary, or toys/games.  In case you were wondering.  They sell for about $5.50 for a package of 35.  I have no idea if that's a good deal but after spending nearly an hour and two stores searching for them, they were coming home with me regardless.

Tonight...the great coupon clip begins!