How to store empty cans in an apartment: practical tips, signs about empty cans
Many people do not like to throw away potentially useful things, and sometimes a huge amount of junk accumulates in their apartments in reserve and just in case. A non-exception, and a very cumbersome one at that, are empty glass jars.
Where to store them and how best to do it is a very pressing question. Together with uneaten preparations, they take up a lot of space, spoil the interior and often suffer themselves, becoming covered with cracks and chips.
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People believe that storing empty jars means poverty. After all, the container takes up space that could be occupied by filled dishes.
General layout plan
Empty cans at the dacha, in a private house, and even more so in a cottage, do not pose a particular problem - they can be easily removed to any non-residential premises. Many generally store them outside, fortunately glass containers tolerate this.
With an apartment, things are more specific, especially if it is small. Here you have to get smart and look for non-standard solutions.
The most obvious options for an apartment are a loggia, mezzanine or storage room, if available.
General rule
It makes sense to remove jars that are not needed until the next season further away or higher. It is better to keep the same dishes and preparations that will be needed in the near future away from the aisle, but so that they can be easily approached.
Methods for storing cans and preparations
The most standard option is shelving. Both wooden and cheaper plastic ones.And the best thing is collapsible metal ones that can be adjusted and fixed on the wall. The only condition: they must withstand both empty dishes and with preparations.
Where to place the rack? If the pantry allows, go there. If you don’t have one, purity-en.htgetrid.com magazine recommends placing shelving in blind corners and along walls so that they are out of the way and easy to access.
A less convenient location is the mezzanine. They are also suitable for empty glass containers, and reinforced ones are also suitable for full ones. But they are quite difficult to reach places.
The optimal place is free spaces and so-called “dead zones” throughout the apartment. This could be an unoccupied space in the kitchen, a niche/drawer under the bed or between cabinets. Away from the aisle so as not to accidentally touch it. If there are concerns about the aesthetic aspect, then the site purity-en.htgetrid.com advises building small drawers or shelves that are suitable in each individual case.
For temporary maintenance, the “on top of each other” option is suitable. It is very simple and economical - again you need a blind corner and cling film:
- Sort containers by size.
- Wrap the film to each other, six pieces at a time, if we are talking about three-liter jars, wrapping one jar, and then, without cutting the film, the next one and so on.
- Then build a stable, low structure next to the wall.
- To be sure, you can wrap the entire “pyramid” with film.
In general, storing empty glass jars is definitely not a troublesome task, especially if the housewife clearly understands how much of such containers she will need and gets rid of the excess in time.
I throw away the cans and no problems!
offer it to your neighbors for thanks!
You're getting tired of shaking
And then unwind to get 1 (one!) can, and rewind again :-)
Why waste so much film? You can put it in a bag (wrap it, unwrap it) for nothing.
Tips on the level - do not insert your fingers into the socket.
exactly!
My wife began to pickle the cucumbers, and I watched as she struggled to put her hand into the 82 mm jar to pack the cucumbers more tightly. Then it dawned on me that I just need to buy jars with a wider neck - 100 mm, then my hand can easily fit into the jar, fortunately such lids are now on sale. I bought several jars with a wide mouth of 100 mm, my wife liked it, it was very convenient.
Are there any other problems?
They made me laugh))) why store empty cans?))) Unless you have nothing to do...
What’s so funny??? you buy new jars for stockpiling every year or something?
Then, to make preparations for the winter in them.
Thank God there is a basement. And there they are, both full and empty.At home there are only a couple of things for urgent needs - to make salted water and put in kvass, and that’s it.
All this is complicated. It’s easier to throw it in a landfill, and buy it if necessary!
how rich everyone is, this is how you throw everything away,
And I took 2 boxes of cigarettes from the store. The box is 70 cm high and just wide enough to fit a three-liter jar in and stack the jars. Fits. Quite a lot. I seal the full box with tape. And put it on the loggia????. Then I put liter and half liter cans in another box to the top. And I also seal it with tape. ???And I put the box on top of the box. ??THUS THE BOXES DO NOT TAKE MUCH SPACE. AND ALL THE BANKS ARE IN ONE PLACE. ???And for storing preserved food. I bought a laundry basket at a traffic light. I placed it behind the furniture wall in a corner on a chair. And I stacked liter and 750 gram jars on top of each other. Up to the top and closed with a lid. ???It turns out that the basket contains a lot of cans and takes up very little space????.
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about nothing...