Decluttering

[poliphilo]

We have a lot of drinking glasses. When I was packing up the kitchen I found loads of them lodged in the backs of cupboards. I should have counted. I'll bet we own 30 or 40. For the past six weeks we've been managing perfectly well with with 2.

That's modern living for you. We pad ourselves round with wholly unnecessary objects. Ailz is in the front room now sorting through some of them- with a view to getting rid. She's just drawn my attention to a box of confetti left over from our wedding. I believe it's gone in the pile of things we no longer need.

I'm terrible; I'm a horder; things like that box of confetti I hang onto for purely sentimental reasons. There are objects I hate- ornaments mainly- that I keep for fear of hurting their feelings.  And then there are all the things that may come in useful sometime- kitchen things for example. Here I point the finger at Ailz. She loves gadgets and never saw a labour-saving device she didn't think was cool. I could care less. I use the same few pots and pans and wooden spoons over and over and over again- and since I'm the one who does most of the cooking- all those crock pots and rice-cookers and George Foreman grills are so much waste of space.

I'm going to join her now. I need to steel myself. 

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I'm a chucker-outer and my husband is a hoarder, but I do have a box full of souvenirs from our wedding and another box full of odds and ends from over the years, I try to make sure all the collections are of little things that don't take up much space!

Kitchen stuff I try to minimise, especially anything you have to plug in. e.g. I could buy an expensive espresso and cappucino machine, but I really like cafetiere coffee just as well, so I stick with that. I've got an electric whisk, and a blender for making soups etc. and that is all I've found that I need in the way of electrical food implements.

I get rid of unwanted items on Freegle, which assuages my conscience with regards to landfill.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This past few weeks my kitchen has been reduced to a portable oven and as many utensils- including crockery and cutlery- as will fit on a couple of shelves. It's been enough. The only thing I've missed is my hob.