I was working in the basement yesterday, trying to organize some of my kitchen things. Rick came in from outside and said, "Ya know, if you didn't have so much stuff, maybe you wouldn't have such a problem trying to get it all put away!" Well, yeah. I suppose. To be honest, I could probably stock three kitchens, in addition to my own, with kitchen stuff. My sister and I are talking about having a yard sale this summer and, well, maybe it's time to get rid of some of my "stuff". The thing is.....I use it. No, I don't use it every week. But I use the dehydrator in the summer when I'm drying produce from the garden or drying grapes or apples or mushrooms. I use the canning "stuff" when I make my red onion conserve in the fall or make pickles or zucchini relish. I use the 30-cup percolator when we have family dinners or picnics. I use the pressure cooker, not every week, but probably every other week. I don't use the food grinder every week, but I use it several times a year. And when my sister or my niece needs something, well, there's a good chance they can find it in our basement. They use it, then they bring it back and it gets stored away until the next time. Yes, I have two KA mixers and when I really hit my baking stride sometimes, they're both being used. In my defense, I took a lot of my mother's kitchen things when she passed away, simply because they were hers. And when Rick's father passed and they had the public sale for his mom to go into assisted living, I took some of her things, too. For the same reason.
And cookbooks. Cookbooks are a guilty pleasure for me. I was bringing out some cookbooks from the computer room yesterday to put on top of the hutch in the kitchen, so they're accessible. Rick saw me and shook his head. He was smiling, though, and he admits that he enjoys the results of my kitchen stuff. Our granddaughter is nine years old and we enjoy baking together. She was very put out with me last year when I gave some of my cookbooks to our local library and has warned me not to do that again. It seems that she wants them all. I'm sure that will change as she gets older.
Right now, when she visits, she'll go through a cookbook and suggest recipes that we need to try.
Nail polish. Good grief, but I dearly love nail polish. Rick put a cabinet up on the wall above my bureau in the bedroom so that I'd finally have a place to put my bottles of nail polish, so they're all in one place. I cannot resist a new color of polish.
OTOH, Rick has his own "too much stuff" collections as well, so he really can't say much. He was an avid Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) fan and has collected a ton of stuff over the years. He has started to get rid of a lot of it now as he's gotten older.
Am I the only one? Do you have "too much stuff"? It doesn't have to be kitchen stuff. Do you have too many books? Too many magazines? Too many collectibles?
What do you have that's "too much stuff"? Anything?
And cookbooks. Cookbooks are a guilty pleasure for me. I was bringing out some cookbooks from the computer room yesterday to put on top of the hutch in the kitchen, so they're accessible. Rick saw me and shook his head. He was smiling, though, and he admits that he enjoys the results of my kitchen stuff. Our granddaughter is nine years old and we enjoy baking together. She was very put out with me last year when I gave some of my cookbooks to our local library and has warned me not to do that again. It seems that she wants them all. I'm sure that will change as she gets older.
Nail polish. Good grief, but I dearly love nail polish. Rick put a cabinet up on the wall above my bureau in the bedroom so that I'd finally have a place to put my bottles of nail polish, so they're all in one place. I cannot resist a new color of polish.
OTOH, Rick has his own "too much stuff" collections as well, so he really can't say much. He was an avid Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) fan and has collected a ton of stuff over the years. He has started to get rid of a lot of it now as he's gotten older.
Am I the only one? Do you have "too much stuff"? It doesn't have to be kitchen stuff. Do you have too many books? Too many magazines? Too many collectibles?
What do you have that's "too much stuff"? Anything?
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