Hit 50 jars of home-canned tomatoes this weekend and it hit me different

I was just stacking them on the shelf in the pantry, all these mason jars with the little handwritten labels, and I stopped at 50. Didn't plan to hit that number, it just happened after a summer of buying boxes from the farmer's market near my place in Ohio. Each one is like a little memory of a Saturday afternoon with the windows open and the smell of basil and vinegar. I didn't think I'd care about a specific count, but seeing them all lined up made me feel like I actually did something real, you know? Like all that effort paid off in a way that's hard to explain. Did anyone else get surprised by a random number like that from a project or a habit you didn't think mattered?

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adam_anderson623d ago

Fifty jars of tomatoes and you just now realized you've been prepping for the apocalypse, huh?

paulb9823d ago

Is the apocalypse in the room with us right now? I mean fifty jars of tomatoes is a lot of spaghetti sauce but it could also just mean you really like tomatoes or you got a good deal at the farmer's market. People act like stocking up on canned goods makes you some kind of survivalist but my grandma had a pantry full of that stuff and she was just trying to save a few bucks during sales. Not everything has to be about the end of the world you know. Maybe we should all calm down a notch before we start calling normal grocery hauls doomsday prep.