you do realize that sullen youth is pretty much the perfect Y Combinator profile, right? Can you say "future Brogrammer?"

Actually, when the woman's home was trashed by meth addicts, the first thing Brian Chesky did wasn't get liability insurance, it was to ask the woman to shut up because he was in the middle of raising another round of financing.

another idea. save your jars when you do finish a spice,and use those bulk bins to fill up the jars about 1/4 of the way. :D

Learn to cook. invest in good tools so you don't hate it, especially knives and a decent frying pan and sauce pan. Cook's Illustrated and America's test kitchen make it so easy and foolproof there are simply no excuses anymore.