About Cookie Jar

What Cookie Jar is

Cookie Jar is a shop built around one object. We have picked cookie jars since 2019, 7 years now, and we keep them on seven shelves: glass, ceramic, character, holiday, tins, acrylic and treat jars for dogs and cats.

The jars come from many makers. Some are names you know from the china cabinet, like Lenox, Villeroy & Boch and Waterford; some are kitchen workhorses like Anchor Hocking and Olympia; and many are small makers of glass gallons, tins and acrylic sets who sell nothing but storage.

Every jar on these pages belongs to the jars at Cookie Jar as it is sold today. Questions go to crumbs@cookie-jar.store.

How a jar gets on a shelf

We look at three things together: how many people buy a jar, how they rate it, and what it costs. A jar has to sell, earn four stars or more, and be worth its price; a cheap jar does not get in on volume alone, and a beautiful one does not get in on looks. That is why every jar here has both buyers and stars behind it.

Then we sort them the way you shop: by what the jar is made of and what it is for. Each card names the maker and prints the capacity, the lid and the care line wherever the maker lists them.

Who it is for

People who bake and want the batch to stay as it came out of the oven. People who want a jar that looks right on the counter for the next twenty years. Collectors of character jars, holiday decorators, dog owners with a treat habit to manage, and anyone buying a gift for any of them.

Where you pay and how prices move

Every button opens the jar at our retail partner, so you place the order, pay and arrange delivery and returns with them. We update prices on a schedule, and the figure at checkout is the one you pay.

Capacity, lid and care come from the maker of each jar. If a jar has no capacity listed, its maker gave none, and if a figure looks wrong to you, write to us and we fix it.

Old jars and glazes

Cookie jars are collected, and old ones turn up at every flea market. The FDA asks for care with antique, worn and handmade pottery, because some old glazes can leach lead into food. We wrote up what the FDA says about old ceramic jars so you can enjoy an old jar without filling it with cookies.