You might find yourself in the same boat I'm in - the kind of boat where you love reusing jars, but hate taking the labels off. Of course, the compulsive picking of the label I (we?) do is a good way ...

The label and most of the glue came right off in a single peel, and any residual glue scraped away easily. The pickle jar was another story. I tried removing the paper and glue while the glass was ...