This time of year there are so many apples it's ridiculous. There are free apples being offered on Craigslist.org, free apples from friends, free apples falling from the neighbors' trees. There are seemingly "too many".
I don't like being hungry. Being hungry is depressing. So I really like to save food! Though I don't have a way to can food yet, I know some food can be frozen or dehydrated for keeping edible for extra time. I already have some dehydrated apples, though I have no idea how long those will keep without molding. Freezing apples apparently only works well if they're going to be used for cooking pies later, but I'm not positive about that. I am positive that I can make applesauce. But that gets mighty boring after a while, and I don't even really like applesauce myself.
I finally thought of apple butter! So I read a little bit about how hard or easy that would be to make, found a recipe here: http://www.thekitchn.com/apples-galore-how-to-make-appl-97454 and I'm currently making a small batch. So far I just have apple sauce, but I just took off the lid to let the liquid evaporate and sauce thicken to hopefully a soft butter consistency.
If this apple butter turns out good enough to eat, then I'll be ready when my own apple tree, that I planted just this year, starts producing apples in a few years :)
UPDATE: Sad to say the amount of apples to apple butter is about 5:1 or worse. So if you want more than a 1/2 cup of apple butter, use lots of apples!