Glass and I have never exactly been the best of friends.*

*I’m talking about the material, not the composer–although he and I aren’t on the greatest terms either.

Back in ninth grade (a.k.a. the first time I was a freshman), I had this ingeniusly pre-hipster idea of keeping a glass jar in my locker to hold my pencils. Everything was going fine until I made the mistake of mentioning my unique pencil-holder to my future-telling mother. She looked me straight in the eye, summoned her powers of prescience, and said “Keely, that thing’s so going to break.” And a mere five seconds after I clicked open my combination lock before the first bell rang that morning, the jar tumbled to the ground, dying on impact. Try explaining that one to the janitor.

Still, I am hopefully a little older, wiser, and less clumsy these days, so I’ve taken a hint from this article and decided that re-using glass jars might be an eco-friendly way to spice up my lunchbox routine. Though I don’t regret choosing to forgo a meal plan this semester, I miss the appealing presentation of the lunches I used to buy from Cornell’s many a la carte eateries, and perhaps this twee DIY attempt at cute containers will help.

Okay, so I didn’t tie on a bamboo fork with an Etsy-ready piece of white twine, but they’re still a more exciting than Tupperware.

Will I be stuck with a bag full of broken glass Monday afternoon? Or will pre-packing my lunches instead of coming home to make them save me so much time that I miraculously ace my programming exam on Thursday? Place your bets now!

P.S. Here’s one more piece of glass for the jar fans out there. This weekend marked Ithaca’s annual Apple Harvest Festival, and though I won’t blog specifically on that event (I did that last year!), I will mention that I purchased my first-ever jar of apple butter today. Hooray for buying local!

As Thor is my witness, I’ll never eat naked toast again.