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She did keep boxes, as well, but stopped labelling them because they got 
re-used so often, they were illegible after a while. She has boxes older than 
I am ;-). Mostly, she kept things in particular areas, so she didn't have to 
hunt for specific things.

My Dad converted one of the basement bedrooms into our "fruit room", and it 
was packed floor to ceiling with food. We actually once lived only on our 
storage for 6 months, and the money we didn't spend on groceries went to our 
local church building fund. It taught us what we didn't have enough of, 
that's for sure... ;-)

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 1:04 am
Subject: Re: [Homestead] was pigs, now 1000 jars



I've never counted jars, just cases.  I like to keep the boxes the jars come 
in and then put them pack in for stacking.  Plus I can nicely label the ends 
of the boxes (use labels printed from the computer with the dates and what 
is in them [type of tomato in the salsa, etc.] so we know what works best 
the next time around).

Guess I should count them.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rayzentz AT aim.com>>
>
> I know that I am one of the ones that mentioned that my mom put up over 
> 1500 quarts of canned goods every year, not including dehydrated foods 
> (she had two running almost constantly, as I recall, one of which my Dad 
> had made for her and had 23 3' by 3' trays. It was taller than I am). 
> However, just so you know, I am the oldest of 15 kids. While we did not 
> always consume a season of the preserved food in a year, we put a real 
> good notch in it. Now, of course, she does not do as much, and is 
> constantly giving any of her kids who want, jars of food. The last ones we 
> got were salsa and pizza sauce from 1988. Salsa is still good, pizza sauce 
> not so much ;-) Of course, I re-use the jars in my own canning, and the 
> tradition continues...
>
> Of course, I come absolutely nowhere close the the sheer volume of what 
> she did. I look back, and am amazed, impressed, and awed.

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