Use to store almost anything, including dried herbs.
Apothecary jars are a stylish, yet practical, way to store and organize items throughout your household, from the kitchen and bathroom to the craft room. Not only are they durable -- typically made of glass or sturdy plastic -- they also encourage you to use the things stored in them because you can actually see what is inside. Whether you are trying to get control of your messy craft room or if you just want to spiff up your kitchen without creating clutter, apothecary jars help you organize and beautify your home.
Bathroom Odds and Ends
Apothecary jars make bath salts easy to pour.
Store your bathroom odds and ends in glass apothecary jars rather than in the containers they came in to achieve a more visually unified look. Top bathroom clutter candidates that fit nicely in apothecary jars include bath beads, bath salts, cotton ear swabs, cotton balls, decorative soaps and spare razors. An added bonus of organizing bathroom items in apothecary jars is that you will be more likely to remember you have them, and use and enjoy them, since you can see them.
Craft Room Clutter
Apothecary jars turn craft supplies into colorful decor pieces.
Corral the clutter in your craft room by storing all your small, numerous items in apothecary jars lined up on a shelf or with lids screwed permanently into the underside of a shelf. Items to display and store in this way include buttons, pom-poms, googly eyes, glitter, plastic beads, seed beads, seashells, pipe cleaners and feathers. Apothecary jars let you take in all the craft possibilities at a glance while still maintaining a streamlined, mess-free space.
Home Office Helpers
Stash antique-style quill pens and ink in a jar for a piece of literary artwork.
Arrange your desk or home office by pouring the standard office supplies that often get jumbled in a drawer or scattered across horizontal surfaces into spice-sized apothecary jars instead. For example, purchase a spice rack with empty apothecary-style jars and hang it near your desk. Fill the jars with miscellaneous office items like paper clips, thumb tacks, pencil lead, safety pins and tubes of lip balm. Stash pens and pencils in a larger jar.
Kitchen Jars
Handwritten labels keep matching jars from looking sterile.
Ditch the half-empty bags of dried beans and the crinkled, leaking bag of flour in favor of shelves of dry goods in apothecary jars. Kitchen goods to store in apothecary jars (large and small) include spices, flour, sugar, beans and grains. Label each jar with a handwritten label so you know each jar's contents at a glance, for example, which jar holds sugar and which holds sea salt, to help prevent unfortunate mix-ups. Handwritten labels also add a homey touch to the kitchen.
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