I’ve been acquiring a bunch of highly scented snuffs lately, and have been wondering how to store them in a way that both keeps them fresh and aromatic, and doesn’t result in the contamination of my other snuffs. So today I was in the grocery store and noticed glass jars of Gerber Baby Food with screw on metal tops for $.50 = 4 oz. and $.70 = 6 oz… So I bought six of each size and emptied the food out, and they make incredible storage devices for the same price as a small plastic smash box. The 4 oz. will easily hold 50 grams of snuff, and the 6 oz. will hold 100 grams if you pack it a little. It’s a shame to waste the food, but it’s far cheaper and more effective than any other airtight storage method for small amounts of snuff that I’ve found. The best solution is to keep all your old food jars, but it’s nice to have those little jars for things like Indian perfumed snuffs that you don’t buy in bulk.
Good idea. I think I would have eaten the food though. 
Good idea. Anything that’s airtight will work. I use peanut butter jars
@Xander – MMMMHMMMM baby food um nom nom num…lol
ooooh… I think I’ve just found the solution for my 1.15 Oz of WE Garrett (which comes in a really annoying cardboard canister) if I can get a big enough container with a wide enough mouth, would it hurt to just drop the whole entire WE canister right into it (will the cardboard hurt anything over time?)
That would be fine, the single most important factor is that the container is airtight. The cardboard is neutral and would have no long term effect on taste etc.
I was out shopping today, and couldn’t help but notice that high quality empty jars are more expensive than high quality jars with food in them. Like in the baby food example I cited earlier. Little jars like that are $2 and up at The Container Store. The baby food cost 25% of that. Totally bizarre.
tonigght I’m eating fish sticks while they are going out of style. What does this have anything to do with the topic you might ask? Well its that I spied the mayonaise in my friddge… and noticed the '32 Oz" plastic jar it comes in might do very nicely to either almost perfectly store a NAS smoking can’s worth of tobacco, or a few little snuff tins. It is alright for the container to be plastic (or even metal such as in the case of the $2.50 metal ‘tea tin’ I’m currently hiding my cardboard WE Garret canister in), right? Also, can we define ‘air tight’ a litle better? if it can hold water without leaking once closed, can I be satisfied then that something is also air-tight? I think I could put water in that great little square tea tin if I filled it with water and turned it upside down I don’t think the water would go anywhere (and I need to find the web page I got it on and share here because they are great little plain metal containers and cheap too) and I am about positive the mayonnaise jar (once the mayonnaise is used up that is) would hold water if filled and tipped upside down too EDIT – here is where I got the tea tin, the silver-colored plain 2 oz one and it was $2.50 and they also have 1 Oz ones (which I also got two of those at the same time) that are $2.00 each see what you think: http://www.sereneteaz.com/accessories-tea-tins-c-23\_59.html
I found some nice little jars at this site http://www.specialtybottle.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=16
@dgriego ooh at a glance those look real nice. Bookmarking that, thank you! Some of the tins they offer there look like they might hold promise too (for possible snuff boxes, some have hinges)
Just got a 10g can of 5 Photo Raja #5. It was a tiny cylinder very tightly packed–no way I could pinch out of the canister, so I emptied half of it in a used snus can. I have to say it works rather well, and is easy to pinch from.
thought some of you may be interested in these. they’re called Vac N’ Stash.
i’ve never seen ANYTHING on earth that was ‘fool-proof’, Noob!..
and I just won on ebay a 24 pack of those Vac N Stash. As soon as I get them and put them to use, I’ll report my findings as to whether or not they are good storage ideas for snuff.
well it seems as though the seller of those Vac N Stash is a thief. Today I received messages from ebay telling me to not complete my purchase, and if I did, I could file a claim. I had 2 different purchases from this guy totaling just about $32. Some things are just too good to be true.
Dang, that is bad, Noob, damn crooks.
Thought I would post this solution. I’m considering getting about twenty of these with the metal plastisol lined lid. Although LHB’s suggestion looks more economical. I’ll just empty the food in the compost before my gf gets home. hahaha. I’m just worried about the clear glass as opposed to the amber. http://www.containerandpackaging.com/item.asp?item=J048A
@ Bart, so it wasn’t fool proof after all!!
@Pieter- yes, a fool will find a way, hahaha…I’m here to tell ya… @ Wild horsemane I haven’t heard much on light issues but, yes I was looking for more of the older blue glass mason jars. Then I remembered being told by a farmer years ago: NEVER use a cast iron skillet or mason jars that you salvaged from a farm or second hand store. Many times they may have been used for mixing pesticides and who knows what-all. So, the jars can be had cheap for new…I just keep them from heat and light to be safe.
These look nice, pretty cheap too.Glass Storage Bottles