flowerbug
Garden Master
C'MON!!! We who can ALWAYS have at least few jars of "what the fudge was I thinking when I canned this?!?!?"
Anyway, I have quite a few, and I have been emptying the unwanted produce in my garden bed, putting the rusty lids and screw tops in my scrap metal recycle trash can, to be recycled later, although the local place gives me nothing, but at least they don't go to a landfill. I admit having these jars, which are clean and scrubbed up Now, but need to
get run through the dishwasher.
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There is no "bad canning anonymous" for me.
i've had some things given to us like that where i've emptied the contents and cleaned them up. right now i have some old jars of grape jam that are so old that they've lost their flavor and i'll dump them out on a plate some summer and hope the Orioles find them. i've hardly ever seen Orioles here so it would be a way of seeing if they're around but not feeding here because i never have fruits on trees/bushes that i can see or if it is just because they're not here. i have a few other jars of things that i'll feed to the worm farm in the middle of winter as an extra food source when fresh stuff is more scarce. almost all of the jars are not canning jars so they will end up in the recycling and not be reused again.
i've really only saved all of these because i hate to waste any kind of food even if it isn't very good or doesn't taste right i often can find another way to use it before it spoils. old jams will keep forever if they don't actively rot or have molds on them.
those are some pretty coroded rings!
I found gelatinous bitter melon to be especially repugnant... had to dump about 12 jars of that. And some old apple sauce that had solidified into a solid mass. 
