"Tub"erware.

Margarine tubs, yogurt tubs, coolwhip tubs... anything plastic, with a chubby bowl-like shape and a lid.

I am jealous of some of your finds.

After finishing off mixers in those fancy bottles, I peel off the labels and wash them out. Then I make my own limoncello or flavored vodkas and give them to friends. It looks a lot prettier than a recycled wine bottle. Plus, it's cheaper and I'm not sending it off to the recycling center right away.

what's leftover wine?

You know Redman, I had the exact same question! I've never heard of such a thing.

Nancy, I also have those great glass yogurt bottles and I find them great for keeping my whole nutmeg and mini microplane in. It's easy to find corks online to fit them. Also great for keeping bulk salt handy by the stove as well as other herbs and spices that you buy in bulk.

"Tub"erware? Oh, how I love that.

This is a great blog topic. I gotta tell you, some of those upscale take out pasta places provide really nice plastic utensils. Not the brittle, easily broken ones; very nice strong and useful ones. We totally save them, run them in the disher, and use them for picnics, brown bagging, and my daughter's lunch box. If she happens to lose a piece, I'm not crying about my "favorite fork" that I always use...

And another thing. Those cute jars that jams and jellies come in? (Bonne Mama and others...) We collect a few types, with lids, cut a slot in the lid and the kids decorate the jar. Vi-ola! Piggy banks with screw tops for withdrawals. No more bent butter knives or shards of pottery flying everywhere. : )

Pickle jars. I keep one under the sink and pour used bacon fat in it (instead of pouring it down the drain! MAJOR no-no). Big mouthed jars makes the transfer easy and that way I don't have to clean lard out of anything I want to keep. Just pop the lid on and under the sink it goes!

We are suckers for fancy tins. They get used for buttons, milk bones, etc. Somebody gave us McCann's steel-cut oats in a fancy tin, which now contains loose tea: we drink more tea than coffee. And, if you haven't noticed, buying loose tea from a tea shop is both jaw-droppingly cheaper and of far, far better quality than the floor-sweepings contained in teabags.

We use an old Gatorade container for our under-sink dishwasher detergent. I got tired of lugging out the big detergent box, opening the metal slot and having it trickle out the side. Now we just put some in a smaller plastic container, and the smaller container doesn't have the mess. Not fancy - but functional.

pretty sure those cute little gelato cups are biodegradable. Made from a by-product of corn, if I'm not mistaken. So, if they are tossed into the trash, they wiil return to the soil.

Where did you find that cheese? I'd love to try it and the container will fill out a set of those dishes I received from my mother. She uses them for creme brulee.
Thanks!

After reading this, I had those little glass yogurt jars on the brain. Stopped at Trader Joe's to pick up something for dinner (roast herbed pork tenderloin with onions, gala apple & red bell pepper) and had to buy some yogurt. Ate the berry flavour for breakfast--OMG, so good! It's a little pricey, so it'll be an occassional splurge.

And now, I get to decide what goodies to store in the cute jar!