My Mother Never Used a Potato Peeler

Growing up I'd always watched my mother peel the skin of potatoes with a paring knife. And even when my aunt suggested she use a potato peeler, she never would. Her reasoning was she's set in her ways and has been use to using a paring knife all her life.

I never understood why she wouldn't want to use a vegetable peeler to make her life a little easier and maybe I never will, but as the years went by I realized there's some logic to her reasoning. For instance, when it comes to less of an accumulation of stuff, we have quite a bit! I realized yesterday as I was digging through all of the knives in my drawer just for the vegetable peeler, it was causing nothing but frustration to be digging through so much stuff just to find the damn thing.

And then it dawned on me as I was doing dishes that it seemed like I was always washing dishes and loads of them. The 50 or so plates, knives, cups, spoons, forks, and other accumulated junk that we have back as extras when we're too damn lazy to wash a dish.

But then I realized something else. Not only is it a huge frustration, it's also a waste of water, dish soap, time and money! Plus it's an eyesore seeing so much crap crammed into my cabinets, when that simple paring knife theory my mother still refuses to change to this day, works just as well. Our generation today just has too much junk!!!




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Throwing it All Out

Lately I've been trying to clear the clutter from this house. Everywhere I turn it seems we have so much stuff, despite the little furniture that we have. Today I was cleaning through my desk, throwing out stuff when I caught myself keeping extra calendars that I don't need. Sure they're cool calendars like the one that was sent to me from Harlequin's Romance Novels, but what's really the point of keeping the calendar?

I think once all of this stuff is said, done and gone I'll feel a lot better in my life. Now if I can just get the other half to see eye to eye.

Everything But the Kitchen Sinks

When I went to yard sales today, I think I found everything, but the kitchen sinks.lol It's amazing what you can find at yard sales and I kept thinking this would be a great way to remodel a kitchen if you could find things that you really needed.

I know a while back I was really excited about working on my kitchen. I ended up putting it on hold for both financial and personal reasons.

I really don't know if I'll ever get started on the kitchen again, but when I do, I already know I don't just want anything and everything going into the kitchen. Especially when it comes to cabinets and sinks. I actually thought about just using the cabinets we have to save some money and I think the sink might be the same situation.

It really isn't in bad shape at all and all it would need is a new faucet. Maybe, who knows!