I don’t really know the number of canning jars I have but I use the empty ones for water. I also save milk jugs and two and three liter bottles of pop. I fill these up and store them in my back bedroom. I have also been saving the tide jugs for the sinks in my house to wash our hands and use for baths when the lights go off. Where I live you can count on the lights going out in the winter. Sometimes for days. If I run out of jugs for water and the pump doesn’t work we have a spring below the house that we use to fill the jugs back up. I have a flat top stove in the house and a cook stove set up on the blocked in front porch to heat water with and to cook on. For sanitary uses I have rain barrels outside. If nothing else I met snow.
