How big are urns?

Usually between 9”-12” tall. I would be surprised if you find any at Goodwill or garage sales, they tend to be occupied already, and most people don’t want to admit that they just dumped out Aunt Beatrice t9 make a couple of bucks at a garage sale.

Check on Amazon, they probably are cheaper there than at a funeral home.

Size of a 32 ounce Ball Canning Jar.

Most prepaid funeral plans provide you with an urn. 30 years ago, mine was a beautiful ceramic thing that looks like an expensive vase. It comes in an elegant mahogany box, handy for storing cigars. The wife uses the “vase” to show off her flowers.

A friend had her dad’s ashes in a cardboard box with a plastic bag liner (he died broke). The box was 8 inches by 8 inches and about 14 inches tall.

If you go through the Neptune Society, you don’t have to pay for an urn, they scatter the ashes for you.

It doesn’t have to be an actual, official urn @canidmajor. I’m thinking of some sort of decorative pottery. Just need to know what size.

After Rick’s dad died I was just sick at how much it all cost, and how the funeral directors preyed on mourners to squeak more and more money out of them. I texted my kids with instruction that if they want to honor my memory they will do that by finding the absolute cheapest options.

I’ll let my kids decide what to do with my ashes. But I want to have a hand picked urn ready if they want to keep them.

Thank you @zenvelo.

Morbid thought. But I probably need to look into that myself. : (

Well send it to me @HP!

Ask whoever it is you intend to grant the privilege of your disposal. I bet they’ll throw in a nice one. Perhaps even give you some choices. Our ceramic thing was the least sissy offering of the selections. They all came with the mahogany box. I told them I wanted a little fighter plane or maybe a jagdpanther. But alas, the outfit has no sense of style. The vase is at home. But I guess it’s around 18 inches tall with a diameter of 6–7 inches at its widest.

Well then, @Dutchess_III, there are all sorts of conta8ners out there.

A good sized cookie jar is the perfect fit.

I want my ashes scattered at the mint.

I wonder if your kids would want to pick the style? Or, maybe they would want what you pick for sentimental reasons.

Good to plan these things. I don’t think of it as very morbid. The more you do the less decisions they deal with while they’re in mourning. Easing that burden is a very thoughtful thing.

I still for instance don’t even know if I would bury my or cremate him. I think he wants to be buried, but he talks about it like someone with claustrophobia would.

Just that your kids know you prefer to be cremated eases them burden.

I know there are all kinds of containers @canidmajor. I was only asking about size.

I don’t want my kids to have any expense if I can help it.

It looks like the cheapest cremation uoption is still $2800. :(

I had little experience with funerals until I met Rick. He has tons of family. Somebody always dying. And they all had the same funeral. Open casket with the widow or widower standing at the head greeting people. Horrifying to me.
Then lowering them in the ground, which also horrified me.
It wasn’t until his nephew died, and was cremated, that things changed.
His 97 year old dad was also cremated.

My aunt was cremated for free because she donated her body to science for two years. They return the ashes to a relative; my sister has her ashes.

I’m past the age where anybody wants my body! Yay!
I’ll look into it tho. Thanks for the tip @JLeslie

@Dutchess_III ”How big are urns?”
Now see the very first (my) post.
Coffee urns might work, too, they vary in size.

My aunt was around 70 when she died and various ailments.