My grandmother raised her children during the depression and ended up raising me too. My grandmother would say to her sisters the depression is over, get over it and throw out all those jars you are saving. No one wants them, no one will ever use them. Same with the paper sacks. For some reason seems everyone saved paper grocery sacks except my grandmother. She had a trash pile (no trash pick up then) and her sisters would go through it pulling out 'good stuff' that she tossed, mostly jars. When my two great aunts died, no kids of their own, I had to deal with cleaning out their homes. My grandmother said burn it down, they left it that way. I didn't of course but it sure was a burden getting their homes clear of the saved clutter that was never used.