organizing – Rainy Saturday Creative

Normally I blog about cooking and crafting, but this month I just moved from a studio to a one bedroom! More space, right? Not so so much. I had a generous size storage locker in my old place and no storage locker here, so everything I own needs to go in this space.

When I do my spring cleaning, which isn’t always done at spring time, I love to catch up on Hoarders to motivate myself to get rid of stuff. I am more a pack rat than hoarder though I can see myself in them. Before I moved I had taken out tons of trash and made three big trips to donate to Goodwill. After the movers moved my items to the new place, it really looked like an episode of Hoarders!

So I will take you through my process, as someone who is not a professional (except good at accumulating things and not getting rid of things), in how I deal with my paring down and getting rid of excess.

I am thinking first I will just unpack everything, or will still look like a hoarders paradise. My plan is then to ask myself if I didn’t already own an item, would I purchase it. If not, then out it goes. Then I realized this is basically the Marie Kondo method. So be it! Wish me luck and stay tuned!

I am sooo done with cooking, for the time being anyway. I mean I love cooking and I even find washing dishes meditative (I don’t have a dishwasher). But I need a break. But before I take a break from cooking, I need to cook. Have to cook potatoes for potato salad. I need to cook sausage and eggs so I can assemble more breakfast burritos. This is all simple cooking. So then from Sunday through Thursday, no cooking, except maybe to fry an egg on occasion. I know, not a full week, but then of course, I am visiting family for the holidays.

I don’t like tuna (unless raw in a Japanese restaurant), so I will buy canned chicken and mix it with mayonnaise. Maybe avocado toast. How do people have avocado toast everyday? So hard to find a ripe avocado the exact moment you need it. I will snack on tomatoes. Of course there are any variety of sandwiches that can be made. What are your ideas?

All the cooking I have done in the last week or two means all my spices got all messed up. So I am reorganizing them. Put warm spices together (nutmeg, cloves, allspice, etc), Indian spices, Mexican spices. Cumin, my favorite spice, is multicultural, so I will have to figure that out. This is just the start, the photo maybe shows 55% of my spices! Every one essential and necessary! 🙂 And yes, my baking stuff is there too as I house it in the same area. Perhaps more photos on Saturday.