My mother went to the Williamsburg Pottery the other day and brought back a cornucopia of hermetic glass jars. It was as if an ark ran aground in my kitchen and debarked jars — in pairs of two! Now I have two liter, one liter, and half liter jars plus a twelve pack of Ball jars.

This is a lot of jars.

As you can see I’ve filled a couple with my three types of bourgeois popcorn and two types of flour. They look really splendid on the shelf. The reduced clutter in my pantry is great: no more boxes of this or saggy plastic bags of that. I’m also looking forward to my brown sugar not drying out.

The problem is that not everything comes in quantities that fit exactly in a French-made hermetic glass jar. This means I now have a jar of flour as well as a bag of flour, which is a sonofabitch. So I’m looking for solutions. Any ideas?

Things I’ve but in jars so far: two types of flour, three types of popcorn, brown sugar, regular sugar, raisins, bread crumbs, and cornflakes. I know, wtf, cornflakes. There is an excellent way to use these darn things, I am sure of it. The idea is floating, out there, amongst the aether waiting to be caught and exploited. Someone smarter and more organized than myself figure it out and let me know.

Oh also, I need a good labeling method.