Reply #13: Where I am many people used to can but not so many anymore. [View All]

[Lone_Star_Dem]

The demographic here is quickly changing from retired country people to younger families looking to live out of the city. Which makes it a perfect place to stock up on supplies. A lot of the time I'd start chatting with a person at a garage sale and before I knew it they were bringing out more canning supplies they didn't really need anymore and tossing them in the deal. I have enough jars/rings now to put up my entire garden. Which is great because I always grow way too much and the neighbors will only take so much of my surplus veggies off my hands.

I also do jellies for gifts and home use. Even giving away as many as I have I still have a surplus of jelly jars. I fall into deals where I get an entire box for 50 cents quite often.

The canner was a great, great deal. It's the 23-quart Presto, and it should have been around the $100 that you paid for yours. I was going to pay more for the replacement seal for my old canner than what I ended up paying for the entire brand new canner. You just can't go wrong with a deal like that.