purchasing lids?

[hopegrows]

Is there a place canning lids can be purchased cheaper online. Everywhere is out around here except Kroger and they want $1.99 for a 12 pack of regular lids. I would like to find them a little cheaper!

Thanks

[HSmom]

I was just coming here to ask a similar question. I've found a few places on-line that are under $2, but the last time I bought lids (a couple-three years ago), I only paid $1.

 

So in addition to Hopegrows' question, I would add:

 

What are y'all paying for lids/flats (no bands)?

 

 

[stacey]

I think I paid $1.44 for 12 at Wal mart...

[serendipity]

Didn't Darlene have a way to get them in bulk? Or was that canning jars?

 

And don't some of us get them in large quantities from the Amish somehow?

 

Not sure where I read these things but that is what is popping out of my memory at me.

[serendipity]

Oh, and here they were 1.19 on sale this summer. Now they are up to $1.39 and no longer on sale like they were.

 

Don't those people who price this stuff realize that everyone is canning like mad into September???

 

Sheesh.

 

lol

[hopegrows]

I can get wide mouth lids at the local bulk foods store really cheap, but I do not have that many wide mouth jars, I have the regular ones the most.

 

Last year when I tried to buy them at Walmart I asked an employee where the canning lids were. She had to find another employee becasue she didn't know what canning even was!!!!

 

[Dee]

A friend called today asking if I'd bought lids recently. I hadn't so I don't know what's out there but she said she's looked in 2 towns and can find the wide mouth lids but the regular size spaces are empty.

[CrabGrassAcres]

I get them from:

http://www.fillmorecontainer.com/default.asp

[HSmom]

CGA, they're out of stock on the regular.

 

Dee, that's what I'm finding here: plenty of wides, but no regular.

 

[Crazy4Canning]

Oh man, I was in the Lancaster area last summer and drove right by their warehouse....oh man, oh man, oh man!

[ScrubbieLady]

I have been getting them Fred's Discount Store for $1.00 for 12 regular or wide mouth but they only have them seasonally. One of the stores still is getting some and they apparently will order if someone wants a large quantity but I have been in a couple of their stores that were out of everything.

 

Fred's is a store chain out of Memphis, TN. I don't know how far they go.

[CrabGrassAcres]

Out of stock? Oh my.

[CrabGrassAcres]

http://cgi.ebay.com/720-BALL-CANNING-LID...NQQcmdZViewItem

[etp777]

Not bad, cga. Works out to $1.51/dozen shipped by my math. Cheaper than i can find them around here, even before tax.

[HSmom]

I think that seller might suddenly find herself out of stock.

 

[Cricket]

They are out of stock now, but I hit the dollar stores earlier this season and scooped them up for $1 per dozen, both sizes. The local grocer still has some, but they are $1.99.

 

I haven't been to Walmart in a while.

 

I have my lids stored in a meal-size plastic container with a snap-on lid, tucked into a dark closet. I'm hoping that will keep them good longer.

 

Any thoughts on storing extra lids when we can get them?

[ScrubbieLady]

I was in a Fred's in Southaven, Ms today and they had their canning jars and lids. The pint jars were $6.49/dozen, regular lids were $1.00 and regular bands and lids were $2.00. I will be going back to get some lids. I have just been given some more jars. I didn't see any lids or bands and lids for wide mouth jars but the Fred's usually have them for pretty close to the same price.

[WormGuy]

Fred's was the only place I could find wide mouth lids & bands last year.

 

 

 

John

[Josephine]

I thought this post title was "Purchasing Kids"... I get mine (lids! not kids.) from Harris Teeter or Shopper's Food Warehouse. HT is actually cheaper for the lids, but SFW is cheaper for the jars. Not a wild difference, but some.