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to use Nutella jars as drinking glasses?

97 replies

MrsBadger · 19/08/2010 20:28

just for the children., obv
they're just the right size, nice and light and would onyl go in the recyclign otherwise
dh says it looks poverty-stricken Hmm

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BelligerentGhoul · 19/08/2010 20:29

We use them - they are a perfect size. However, we only have a couple because I only buy Nutella for Christmas stockings!

Shaz10 · 19/08/2010 20:30

Isn't that the point of them? Apart from licking Nutella out of them, of course. :)

autodidact · 19/08/2010 20:31

We always use them too.

KathyImLost · 19/08/2010 20:32

Yeh unless you're talking about the screw top jars, that's the whole point of them.

corlan · 19/08/2010 20:32

Not at all - it sounds quite classy.
The question is- did you clean out the remnants of nutella before you started using them as glasses?
(Mmmm - orange juice and nutella)

littleomar · 19/08/2010 20:33

nonsense, as shaz10 says that's what they're for. do they still have the cartoon ones?

SecretNutellaFix · 19/08/2010 20:34

We use them and must have about a dozen

They are a perfect size for fruit juice.

Ryoko · 19/08/2010 20:35

Recycling is good.

Morloth · 19/08/2010 20:35

That's what they are for isn't it? I have a few in the cupboard, not just for the kids either.

Tootiredforgodtyping · 19/08/2010 20:35

That's what you are meant to do surely? DD loves the mustard jars from france with the pictures on.

Clary · 19/08/2010 20:36

Nigella LAwson uses them for something similar...serving a posh dessert IIRC in one of her books - so why not?

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Jannamummy · 19/08/2010 20:37

I now have ten and am working hard on expanding my collection!

jetgirl · 19/08/2010 20:37

We used them at university, though we were very canny!

HecateQueenOfWitches · 19/08/2010 20:38

we use them.

Although we had so many of them we had to pack some away and store them because it looked so bad to have about 30 of them!

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bibbitybobbityhat · 19/08/2010 20:39

Re-use is better than recycling.

I am meanie mummy so we only have one nutella jar drinking glass.

AndTheHorseYouRodeInOn · 19/08/2010 20:39

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Prinnie · 19/08/2010 20:39

Definately NU - I don't buy it but my Mum does and she's getting a nice collection now :) Excellent for the environment as well :)

pigletmania · 19/08/2010 20:40

Just about to say that YABVU as I thought that it was the big screw ones that you were talking about, but the little ones that are like a drinking glass, no fine imo. I would do the same but have the big screw top type.

WoTmania · 19/08/2010 20:41

When I lived in France all my peers at chool had loads of them as glasses. I think they are that shape becuase of it.
YANBU

poppyknot · 19/08/2010 20:43

I have just stacked some this evening. Also use dip tubs for play pieces and the like. (Only the cloudy ones - the plastic in the shiny ones is not strong.....)

sloanypony · 19/08/2010 20:43

I dont have any. I would not let such a product pass the threshold of this organic haven.

Now, there are a whole bunch of glasses in my kitchen cupboards. They have "Coke" emblazoned on the side. Apparently they were a promotional item from last summer when some kind of restaurant I was unfamiliar with, I think a scottish restaurant, would it be McDougals? McDonalds? Something like that. Anyway, they had a promotion on.

Anyway, there seems to be a WHOLE CUPBOARD of these glasses. They must breed, because I believe that this restaurant has only been visited a maximum of twice.

Strange.

clouddragon · 19/08/2010 20:43

we've always done, they're perfect

LackingInspiration · 19/08/2010 20:43

I don't buy nutella - how come they don't look just like jars then?