I am having difficulty keeping up with how many times I do the 10 Things Challenge so I’m going to give up and just begin dating them.
Yesterday and last night I eliminated much more than 10 things, but I did not classify it as such. The post before that I thinned out even more. April 4, 2010 saw me reduce and downsize my bedroom to one almost half the size of my previous one. I have tossed egg slicers and even completed the 10 Things Challenge on April 3, 2010, February 26, 2010 and February 25, 2010. If I thinned out in March, apparently I did not feel the urge to blog about it, and for that I apologise. Thinning down is beginning to become a fact of life here.
I even simplified this blog to enable me to concentrate better on the different aspects of my life (and to better help the reader by making posts more pertinent).
All in all, it has been a busy few months, yet I feel that I am only beginning the journey I began when I started this blog.
I am not eliminating 10 things every week; but overall I am making progress which is the important thing. Already I have a closet filling with items to hand on to my sister, who lost all of her possessions in a move that went awry some time ago and has been slowly trying to regain the quality of possessions that she lost. She cherishes her things and feels the loss keenly so my gleanings are happily going to use rebuilding the possessions she loves, going to a place where they will actually be used (or passed on to someone who will).
The interior of my kitchen cabinets are becoming sparse in comparison to how overstuffed they were when I began. Soon I will have to rearrange in order to better utilize the empty spaces. To celebrate my growing space I have a small batch of bread rising on the stove. A single loaf that will actually be shaped into dinner rolls to prevent waste—I can freeze them until needed which means that less material used, less wasted yet more enjoyment out of a single batch of bread. Even if I had the freezer space I do not know if it would be practical to make more than a single loaf for just me and a young child.
This morning to my delight I discovered that all of the towels I washed last night were dried on the makeshift line I created in the hallway. This is a wonderful discovery, for it means that I can use the dryer even less! I may want to consider eliminating it from my life entirely if this continues as well as it is.
Oh, to be free of one more large thing! That would mean that the only real large items I possessed (besides the van) were the washer and the refrigerator!
So far today I have not eliminated 10 Things, unless you count the duplicates and lids, but such is life.
- Pyrex casserole dish with lid
- Large Pyrex baking dish with lid
- Smaller Pyrex baking dish with lid
- Two Pyrex pie plates
- Large Tupperware bowl with lid
- Plastic Pizza cutter (my knife can do the job)
All of these items were duplicates with the exception of the Tupperware bowl. Some time ago I had purchased all of the Pyrex bakeware I needed/wanted, but then I was unexpectedly gifted with another complete set. He was so delighted at gifting me with something he “knew” I would use (he had been watching me slowly gather my Pyrex collection)! Honestly I was so astounded that he purchased me more of something he knew I had a surplus of that all I could do was politely thank him!
I kept the items and tried to use them for other things—in fact some of the collection did get incorporated into my functional collection of bowls and storage containers, but the baking dishes were too much. I have already given away several large Pyrex baking dishes so these are the last of my overstock (I hope).
This leaves me with one large and small Pyrex baking dish, two Pyrex pie plates, two Pyrex loaf pans, one Pyrex casserole dish, an assortment of nestable Pyrex bowls and a few Pyrex storage containers—all of which are used on a regular basis. Far from minimal to the extreme minimalist, but the perfect amount for me with the amount of cooking I do from scratch (and the occasional leftover).
It is time to shape the bread, so I must close for now. I hope you have a wonderful day!