Top Shop Tips

[tkiovino]

When you are done with a jar of pickles, spaghetti sauce (don't EVER tell my Italian mom I use stuff from the jar!), salsa and other stuff, wash those jars out and save them with their lids.

You can heat hide glue in them

Use them to mix custom finishes

Store nails and screws in them

Hold dry hide glue grains in until you need to mix them...

There's a bunch of uses - and they all come packaged with your food!

[Dave in Md]

They also make great templates to round off corners, I use coins, perscription bottles, coffee cans, peanut butter jars, lids.....

[My Old Tools]

I save a bunch of plastic containers, butter buckets, yogurt cups, etc.  I use them for all kinds of stuff including glue and finish to work out of.

[Lucas Peters @ WOOD]

Coffee cans! Stack 'em high. The new plastic ones have a nice sturdy lid and a built-in handle. I mix finish, clean brushes, store hardware.

For storage containers they're a little pricey. But they come with a whole bunch of free coffee! And you just can't beat that!

[ronaldseto]

Ha Ha! I like your use of "free coffee"

[Floydd]

Those little (one serving) plastic bowls of jello come in pretty handy at times, too.

[ductape]

Don't forget baby food jars. I use them for small painting projects, storing small screws, washing out small brushes, and my grandkids love the stuff that comes in them when new.

[zackwhat21]

Plastic coffee can top make a great "parking' space for radom orbit sanders.  Just turn off the sander and place into the up turned top rather than having to wait for it to quit the orbit cycle.  Your sander will not walk off your workbench with this parking space.

[Lesak1]

If you fill the jar full of water and nuke it for about 1 min. The labels comes off real easy on most of the jars and plastic containers.

[firejohn]

Shaving cream caps and Yoplait yogurt containers make great glue pots.  If the glue dries up inside them, just pop it out and it's good to go again.