I use a small green Le Creuset casserole dish (with lid) to keep my salt, just like the photo here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B00023IT5S/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0

Petworthy: what a lovely idea!! I have different types of French salt and use it in the containers it comes in, but this all looks so wonderful. Definitely inspired ;-)

I like having a two-compartment container like this one when I am using more than one kind of salt.

These are so pretty! I almost bought something for this purpose recently, but couldn't justify spending the money when I have a zillion ramekins. They aren't covered, but I keep them on a shelf near the stove (so nothing falls in them) and I live in a super dry climate so they don't clump up. Works for me.

My mother in law came home from a trip with a jam jar for me. I said something like, "Oh, I've been looking for something to keep my salt in. This will be perfect."

She seemed a tad miffed -- that I was planning to use her gift for a different purpose. But after she'd seen me use it a couple times, suddenly there was a salt pig by her stove! LOL.

I saw the one from Williams Sonoma recently and lusted after it a bit. But I do not have a budget that allows $50 for a container to keep my salt. However, I found this one http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=17386093 at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for around $9. That, I could handle. Now, I have a handle on my salt storage and have it right at hand!

I have an olive wood one with a swiveling top, but the one we use at work is actually my favorite: http://www.distinctive-decor.com/salt-server.html

It's the one Alton Brown uses.

Where do you find all of these!?

I too do not have $50 to send on a Williams-Sonoma salt cellar, but love this similar and cheaper Acacia wood one from Crate and Barrel!
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/acacia-salt-cellar/s618822

I adore my Bee House salt box

We use a bamboo salt box that we got from Sur La Table. It has done a great job over the past 2-3 years and only set us back $5 (it was on clearance then).

I keep my salts in vintage glass sugar bowls. They're so pretty in the cupboard and by the stove.

i had no idea those thingies were actually called "pigs"... i saw the cute turquoise one and thought they had named it salt pig... i'm in love!

I have this one and adore it! http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-kitchen/24336646.jsp

I bought an old (or shoul I say vintage?) sugar bowl at a thrift store for $2 to hold salt.

There are often great old salt pigs/boxes at flea markets and at most pottery studios as well. And I actually saw some very nice Italian pottery ones on sale at Sur la Table,too.

Last time I wandered into our local kitchen store, they had an Emile Henry salt pig on their clearance table. I assume the color was retired as there was nothing wrong with it, and since I've been lusting after a salt pig for years, I went ahead & bought it. It gets used ALL the time.

I started using a salt cellar about a year ago and I love it! I got a little blue ramekin with a lid for cheap from TJ Maxx.

I use two old cups from an "Asian" style tea set that cracked from age and won't hold liquids any more. They're the perfect size, and something I already had and love. I love the idea of using a collection of vintage sugar bowls. $50 for a tchotchke is a bit much.

We have - and love! - the Crate and Barrel one too! Two years ago they (C&B) had a bamboo one (no longer sold) that we bought for my mother-in-law. She loves it!

I just use one of my ramekins for salt. I've never had problems with leaving it uncovered. I even live in a moist climate and my kosher salt has never developed a crust or anything from the humidity.

I have an olive wood salt container that comes with a little wooden ladle for spooning out the salt and rotates just like the one in the picture. I bought it in Paris at a restaurant supply store - about 30 euros and worth every centime. If you are ever in Paris, it is well worth a trip to the restaurant supply area - the stores are tightly packed and full of treasures (though not cheap).

Mostly I grind my salt as I use it (except for my treasured fleur de sel), but I can't imagine having a salt container with no lid. Even if it didn't clump, what about dust? I don't know about anybody else, but I don't dust my kitchen 10 times a day...

I have no. 4 above and I really like it. It's inexpensive and works great! Plus, it's cute.

Sur La Table has a great selection of many of these salt containers. I have a bamboo one for my Maldon salt. Can't even begin to cook anything without that salt anymore...what a difference!

Is it not a problem to leave salt uncovered? I always thought I might get ants or dust collecting in my salt.

This is very much like some of the other wooden ones, but it is fairly traded and provides vital income to artisans in developing countries:
http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/olive-wood-salt-keeper

I have used one for years and my salt has been ALWAYS crusty and cakey. I must be doing something wrong. I keep it on the stove between the burners. I'm not impressed with it. Just like it slightly better than the original container it comes in!

I like the pigs and the lidded ones because they will keep airborne stuff out of the salt - including the grease from cooking, and still handier than tucked in the cupboard. I've wanted one (pig) for several years, but just haven't found 'the one', yet.

I also love the vintage sugar bowl idea! My taste is very eclectic, and my family is accustomed to opening containers expecting one thing, only to find something else - often something they'd been looking for previously, and not found.

I use the clear one in the photo and LOVE it.

My favorite. Love that it's glass. $20.
RSVP Endurance Salt Box

Or for only 1.50, you can buy what we use; a little finger bowl for Pier One:
http://www.pier1.com/Porcelain-Little-Bowl/2270125,default,pd.html

GIT, you should just move it over to the side of the stove. I don't think you're accounting for all of the temperature variations and, most of all, the steam and food splatter that the salt is being exposed to. Even just moving it to beside the stove (after you give it a good cleaning and drying) should make a big difference.

I use my mom's old glass-hen-on-a-nest. I think every woman of her generation had them back in the 70s and 80s. Mine is a traditional amber color that I always hated. But now I don't mind it at all because it does such a good job. And you can get them in blue, green, and clear at pretty much any flea market or junk shop. They cost around $5 usually. Plus I love using something that my mom used to use in her kitchen, though she used it to hide small "junk" like random keys and a travel sewing kit.

I have this one from Prepara.

http://www.prepara.com/kitchen-gadgets/salt-savor/

Since I have cats and am not fastidious about dusting, I really wouldn't be comfortable without having a lid.

Spending $40 on a salt container is God's way of saying you have too much money. For years I used a ramekin without a lid. I live in the Seattle area (super wet) and never had problems with it caking. But I use it every day. And it's kosher salt. Now, in the salt shaker with regular table salt, yes that cakes. I wanted something a little bigger than the ramekin so I didn't have to fill it up all the time. I found one of these at an antihttp://www.etsy.com/listing/107792704/vintage-refrigerator-container-1930s-or?utm_source=googleproduct&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=GPS&gclid=CN-X1pD3mrUCFQfhQgodNH0A8Aque/junk store. I didn't pay over 10bucks for it.

thanks for including my vitrifiedstudio salt cellars! i just posted a giveaway for a pair of cellars on the vitrifiedstudio facebook page here - http://bit.ly/XWnDGL

I have to fess up that I coughed up too much money for the Culinarium cement salt cellar after being seduced by all the beautiful photographs. When I got it in the mail, I was so miffed about how cheap it looked, I felt compelled to sign in and recount my cautionary tale.

But as for the open containers of salt, maybe I just use too much salt, but I refill mine at least once a week. I keep a smallish amount of salt in a small La Chamba bowl by the stove, and that works fine for me.

I also have the one from Prepara and absolutely LOVE IT. It's easy to open and close and I just leave the little measuring spoon inside of it since the 'lid' is flexible silicone. Easy to clean and so cute, it was exactly what I was looking for.