{"id":3148,"date":"2014-04-05T21:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T01:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2014-07-17T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:26:00","slug":"a-drawer-a-day-wk-5-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/a-drawer-a-day-wk-5-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drawer A Day: Wk 5-Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3150\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-Fondu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-Fondu-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fondue set\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fondue set<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Now we move to the kitchen which is primarily my husband-the-cook\u2019s domain so I carefully checked potential give-aways with him. The drawers contained the usual kitchen stuff that is found around the sink, dishwasher and stove (utensils, silverware, dishwashing supplies, baking supplies and dishes, and miscellaneous stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">WEEK 5 RESULTS:<br \/>\n<\/span>10 \u00a0Drawers* reviewed (2 of which were cabinet shelves, but they function as big drawers)<br \/>\n7\u00a0 Drawers and shelves had things to Give Away or Throw Away<br \/>\n*Again I decided that I would define cabinet shelves as drawers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Give-Aways<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3151\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-cooking-Corelle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3151\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-cooking-Corelle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Click to enlarge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>2 large kitchen knives (out of 4)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">2 small knives (out of 8)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">1 large wooden spoon (out of 2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">1 baster (out of 3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">2 sippy cup lids (out of 4)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">3 baby spoons\/forks (out of 6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">3 mismatched forks and spoons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">1 pizza cutter (out of 2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">a few twist-ties that didn\u2019t fit (out of gobs of them)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">1 corkscrew (out of 3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">2 disposal fix it wrenches (out of 3)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">3 cookie cutters (out of 13)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">1 Corning baking dish (out of 7)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>1 pie dish (out of 4)<\/li>\n<li>1 lid that didn&#8217;t fit any of our baking dishes<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Fondue set (It was a 1972 wedding gift and lovely but seldom used.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">4 water filters (left from a long term house guest who was sensitive to the taste of Covington water)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">There wasn\u2019t much to throw away or put in a wait pile. Most of the items we use frequently. We did keep a couple cake pans even though we don\u2019t make many cakes (We\u2019re a pie family.) because there just might come a time when a cake is called for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">5 MUSINGS:<br \/>\n<\/span><b>1. \u00a0Does It Count?<br \/>\n<\/b>Does cleaning a drawer count even if I don\u2019t give anything away? I decided only to count drawers that had items to give away. (For example, I didn\u2019t count the oven drawer.) BUT, the cleaner drawers did make my husband-the-cook happy and that counts for something.<br \/>\n<b>2. \u00a0Paper Towels vs. Rags<br \/>\n<\/b>Does using paper towels (because I didn\u2019t want to dirty my rags and then have to wash them) cancel out any cleaning virtue. Probably. In hindsight I could have easily used some of the many rags I\u2019ve collected over the years. It\u2019s just one load of wash. Next time\u2026<br \/>\n<b>3. \u00a0One Out \u2013 One In<br \/>\n<\/b>I found 2 old roach traps and replaced them with 2 new ones. It\u2019s a zero sum game.<br \/>\n<b>4. \u00a0(Out Of x)<br \/>\n<\/b>I started to notice a pattern in my Give-Aways. Most of them were followed by (out of x). The Fondue set and water filters were the only things that were not duplicates.\u00a0Now certainly a family needs more than 1 fork, spoon, knife, plate, etc., but it\u2019s sobering for me to notice that we had 3 corkscrews for wine when one would do. We had 4 sippy cup lids and no children at home. Even accounting for our 2 grandchildren, they can only drink from one cup at a time. We had 7 Corning baking dishes \u2013 mostly of different sizes, so we gave away <i>one<\/i>? I feel embarrassed to even admit that I am still such a saver that I wasn\u2019t ready to part with more. That \u201cSomeday we\u2019ll be looking for just the right size Corning dish\u201d mentality is hard to shake. But then came another sobering experience. Read on.<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-drain-spout-toboggan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Days-365+69f-ADAD-drain-spout-toboggan-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Days 365+69f ADAD drain spout toboggan\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>5. \u00a0The Virtue of Procrastination<br \/>\n<\/b>People often ask me if I\u2019ve ever regretted giving something away. Not yet. Last week, however, we again got a leak in our basement and traced it to a downspout that broke off near the ground. After searching around the house for something we could rig up Rube Goldberg style to temporarily guide the rain water into the correct pipe, we settled on an old red piece of plastic that we found in the garage. In its former life it was a rudimentary toboggan. It doesn\u2019t snow much in Kentucky and it has probably been at least 15 years since anyone in our family used this toboggan but it was perfect. We rolled it up tight to fit around the drain spout and it&#8217;s working well as a temporary fix. I couldn\u2019t help thinking, however, that if my second round of purging had gotten to the garage sooner that we wouldn\u2019t have had this tool. Sometimes having some old \u201cuseless\u201d stuff hanging around the house can be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we move to the kitchen which is primarily my husband-the-cook\u2019s domain so I carefully checked potential give-aways with him. The drawers contained the usual kitchen stuff that is found around the sink, dishwasher and stove (utensils, silverware, dishwashing supplies, baking supplies and dishes, and miscellaneous stuff. 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