So I'm at Macey's today and get this wild hair and decide I need lids for Mason jars. I'm thinking, What the heck -- what if I don't have enough lids for my jars? I mean, you can only use them once. You could have all these jars and rings and if you don't have a supply of brand new lids, you're screwed. So I bought a couple hundred lids.

Do you guys all store tons of lids? How many? Thousands? How would we get a hold of lids if TSHTF? Is there some other way of canning without needing a constant supply of new lids?

I also had a interesting (or whacked, depending on your perspective) thought about the jars themselves. I was standing there and I dropped a jar and it broke. I literally just started bawling. Like this was such a valuable thing - irreplaceable - and I really messed up. I was thinking, How do we replace things like Mason jars - I sure as heck don't know how to make them - or lids or rings?

I'm feeling the urge to hoard jars and lids and rings.