Tubs of butter

once the butter is gone do you throw away the bowl and lid the butter came in?
I don't i wash it and use it for leftover food storage. when it gets old I throw it out and dont feel bad. Does anyone eles do that or something simular?

I throw em out but mom's got dozens.....

I keep them or storage or giving stuff away to friends and neighbors. Sometimes I need a bowl to mix in and don't want to use my good ones - these are perfect.

I keep them too, I use them fro hubby to take his lunch in, that way if he forgets to bring it back its not a big deal

I used to, but I don't have enough room to store stuff anymore, so I just toss them out now.

I guess I don't even think about saving them because I don't have much room either. But they would be good to send with my husband to work because he always is forgetting my good bowls there, lol. Next time I will save it. Thanks

I keep some of them so have them to send food home with the kids when they visit. That way they don't have to try and rememner to get back a container to me.

I resuse the bowls and lids. They come in handy for lots of things to store in them. If you want to know which is really butter and which isn't, if you wash the outside usper good (or use a gentle scrubby on it) it does remove some of the print so you know it is not the butter.

DreamWeaver wrote:

I resuse the bowls and lids. They come in handy for lots of things to store in them. If you want to know which is really butter and which isn't, if you wash the outside usper good (or use a gentle scrubby on it) it does remove some of the print so you know it is not the butter.

I also use lids that are not belonging to that particular bowl so if you see a mismatched lid you know it is leftovers. Or sometimes I use a permanate black marker

I do let the grandkid use some of the containers too - they play in the sand box with them. If i can give them different sizes like yogurt, butter, and even cool whip they play with them and make (well try to make) castles out of the shapes and sizes. If they break they get tossed and I can always give them new ones. Maybe not as fancy as sand box toys but they don't seem to mind.

well Tele thats a great Idea! I bet they come up with all kinds of creative things to do.

thanks Fancy- they can be creative unless they decide it's more fun to be thowing the sand at each other lol