Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/12/attachments-that-give-you-an-e.html
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Somehow someone managed to make mason jars even more pretentious.
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agree - they should make them resizable to fit my ragtag fugitive fleet of maraschino cherry, pickled onion, stuffed olive and suchlike fruit-n-veg jars i seem to have in abundance
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Just don’t store them next to the Dixon jars.
Yikes.
Actually I’m thinking of Hatfield and McCoy jars. Never mind.
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Oh, now you’ve crossed the line!
Also, I’m sure there is a terrible and juvenile phone prank somehow involving Dicksin Jars …
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Sorry, my mason jars are already full of what they’re supposed to be full of: booze from my still or old nails. Sometimes in the same jar.
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I just hope you don’t mean fingernails…
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Step two better involve carefully filling the sharp edges down; otherwise the next step will be get to the ER 
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Who needs an “excuse?”
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I have a solar LED light lid on one of those super-shorty 4oz quilted crystal mason jars, and it’s awesome. It normally lives on the windowsill in the kitchen, providing a night light in the downstairs, and I always take it camping with me.
Unfortunately I do not know the origin of the parts. The lid was a gift from a friend six or seven years ago, the jar from a different friend (full of corn cob jelly) a few years later.
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Don’t bother with a file. Get a butane torch and heat the cut edge until the glass starts to smooth over all on its own.
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piggy bank? isn’t that the easiest one to DIY? i mean, “punch/cut a slot in the lid” is pretty simple for almost anyone to do…
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I hear Rob found one in his new house, but can’t figure out how to open it. There’s a Kickstarter to find someone with really strong hands who’s good at opening jars. Maybe someone’s spouse?
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I can’t tell if this is just a wishful thinking design project, if the guy is doing a Kickstarter, if they are available for purchase anywhere. I can think of half a dozen more uses for a repurposed Mason jar (along with the ever popular ‘can stuff in it’). Mason/Ball lids also fit a number of commercial bottles too; it’s the main reason why I buy the Safeway house brand of spaghetti sauce.
If they were good enough for Howard Hughes and T. Herman Zweibel…
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God damn, a mason jar would make a terrible cocktail shaker.
Now you’ve crossed a line.
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That attachment didn’t pass legal.
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I always thought mason jars were for burying money:
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Available from Williams Sonoma: $29
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/mason-jar-cocktail-shaker/?pkey=cbar-cocktail-shaker&&cbar-cocktail-shaker
Non-Mason cocktail shaker from WS: $20.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/williams-sonoma-open-kitchen-cocktail-shaker/?pkey=cbar-cocktail-shaker&&cbar-cocktail-shaker
So having a time-tested purpose-built device costs a two-thirds the price as a shitty cobbled together version? We are doing everything wrong, you and I.
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