I've got a jar of... (flour)

That would be an awful lot of pasta. It's a considerably large jar. We don't eat that much pasta. I maybe make spaghetti once a month and stuffed shells is a lot less often. I do like the idea of highlighting it with lace like fabrics, especially around the rim of the jar. One person mentioned using white lights which would be very pretty.

@ScribbledAdNauseum White or yellow lights would be both pretty.

@LadyDuck I also like the idea of purple lights, it's my favorite color.

If only I knew how to sew.

@morgoodie I stay away from pinterest, I'd end up buying too much.

@ScribbledAdNauseum There are other things you can do with buttons besides sewing them. You can make art with them and it turns out really cute. I have a Pinterest board for button art.

I do think it's pretty as it is. I thought about putting a pretty tan lace or other material around parts of it just to give it an accent. I have collected quite a few jars here lately as well. Coconut oil jar, regular jars for like pickles and then a few glass yogurt jars that I intend to put beeswax candles in. The bathtub here isn't really available at the moment. I could manage it with filling it with water from the kitchen tap but that would be too tedious. It's still a good idea with a homemade bath soak though. I hardly ever use the flour that's in the other one. The last time I used it was when I made biscuits. I don't do much baking and I have made cube steak in a long time. I don't make my own homemade dumplings, and I haven't made a roux in a long time.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I thought you could fill them with a mixture of wild flowers like Sweet Alyssum if you have them there as they smell so lovely. Things like that. Its better than those air freshener things for me. I love Sweet Alyssum its wild and free and it fills the room with a nice scent.

@lovinangelsinstead21 I do not use conventional air sprays either. I do use soy wax melts and intend to make my own air spray. That way there aren't bad chemicals in the air.

Filling it with fresh petals would be really lovely. That would be quite a lot of petals though.

@ScribbledAdNauseum You could put a light on the lid then fill the jar with all those items.

@velvet53 I hadn't thought of attaching a light to the lid itself but that's a good idea. I have another jar that I need to give a good wash. It has a bear that my mother crocheted a dress for. I have a string of lights in it as well but I don't turn it on.

That would be very pretty, with the colored rocks / pebbles / what have you. I'd love to see what they would look like with a bunch of quartz in there.

I hadn't thought of colored sand, that would be quite a lot of colored sand. I suppose I could break it up with decorative gems which we have an abundance of here. Well, atleast I think we do. I'm not really a crafty person, atleast not in that sense. We hardly ever use sugar here. I know, I know, I live in the south but I maybe make sweet tea for one or two weeks a year. I don't use sugar in my hot teas very much either. I don't bake sweets. Sugar just isn't in high demand in this household.

@morgoodie These are all really really great ideas. The Terrarium thing is probably the best idea. We used to have a lot of seashells here, I'm not sure what happened to them. It would be cute to do a beach theme type thing for the jar. I might send a picture of it to my best friend and see if she could use it. She might have a million other ideas for it herself.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I was just joking about the sugar because you NO you weren't going to put sugar in it. You could use it for pastas if you have a lot of the same kinds. Cereal? Rice? Make a terrarium out of it. I guess it would be sort of big for colored sand. Memory jar? Write down things you want to remember for the year and then read them at the beginning of next year.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I'd decorate it and make it into a flower vase.

@allen0187 I don't think I took a good picture of this. Everyone seems to be suggesting things that would mean I'd have to fill it up considerably. I should have put a regular jar beside it. Flowers would be nice but I'd have to put a considerable amount of soil in it.

I don't know of anyone who would want it or could use it.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Well, you did say it was a big container so I thought... (though I'm not sure exactly how big it is) maybe they won't be too much especially if they're the big fluffy kind that might take up a lot of space. Just have to make sure to keep it down to maybe one marshmallow a day.

@moirai Are you unable to see the photo above?

well I wouldn't mind haveing lots of marshmallows in that container. Of course my waistline probably would mind.

This is quite a big jar to put cookies in. Even if I only put a few, it would be a bit of a nuisance on the counter. I may end up using it to store beeswax in. I want to start making my own lotions, etc.. and this would hold quite a bit.

The skittles might melt together.

Yes white lights would look really pretty. If I can't think of anything for it I will probably get rid of it. I say probably because I have a habit of convincing myself to wait "just a little longer". Hoarding runs through my veins.

I tend to buy the "boil in bag" rice or rice a roni type. As for pasta, we just don't eat as much. In fact, if I can get away with it, I want to try to get my family to eat "zoodles".

@ScribbledAdNauseum zoodles? Aren't you pretty crafty? Put beads or buttons or something in it. Lol

I've used a mayo jar for flour before as well. I also have a plastic container for my flour.

That would be an awful lot of cookies.

I don't use paper money so that wouldn't work for me. However I like your idea. As I told Sharon above, it would feel so nice to have that much money accumulated in the jar.