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ARE WE SAVING MONEY OR HEADED FOR THE POOR HOUSE?!? With all of us sharing tips on where to find new cookie jars at the best prices, I am buying more new jars than ever and loving it! Are any of you headed to the poor house with me? Fall is such a great time for cookie jars. The merchants are loading up on merchandise for the holiday season and new jars are everywhere. I am out to recruit the Wal-Mart manager from Norman, OK, for my store in Lewiston, ID. At his store they put out the holiday jars lots sooner than they do here! ACJA member and Treasurer Merla Davis is always emailing me saying, “At our Wal-Mart they just put out cookie jars!” We are weeks behind and instead of liking my thicker pocket book, I bemoan the fact that I have to wait. Just goes to show that some people are never happy, right? When I started collecting cookie jars 11 years ago, the holiday jars were scarce. Now they are everywhere! It’s such great fun to decorate with them. I have 23 Halloween jars, seven of them I have added this season. Some of those jars I probably wouldn’t have even known about, if it weren’t for Internet collectors like you folks who share tips. Thanks to all of you! Barbara Crews, the about.com collectible guide and our ACJA VP has done a
wonderful job showing this season’s new Halloween jars. Thanks Barb, for
your good work! View at: My neighbors probably think that a steam engine has moved into the neighborhood, with me huffing and puffing up and down the stairs moving jars during the holidays! We are in the middle of a basement remodel project that is to include a dumb waiter. (Can you say dumb waiter, in this politically correct era? I hope so!) My hubby Carl, figures that we’ll be able to put four jars on it at once. I figure it may save my life! My shopping habits are changing. With the prices on old jars soaring, I now find that I think new and not old when I think of cookie jars. Sure, I go to all the places I shopped for vintage jars, just not as often. Before I hardly looked in new malls; these days that is where I head. I am old enough now to know that I will never know the answers, to all the important questions in life. Perhaps the biggest question is: why would anybody with over 300 cookie jars be out shopping for more? Happy Halloween! Here are pictures of some of my Halloween jars. Julie Durand, Gwen Mauger and Merla Davis also sent in a picture of their Halloween jars in response to the article on this website last month. Thanks Julie, Gwen and Merla your jars are terrific! Don’t the rest of you be bashful; send in your pictures for us to post and share! Sandi Phillips
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