That's what I'd like to do. Instead, after a particularly vexing Kitchen Avalanche, I said a set of very bad words indeed, then dug in and sorted out one small corner of the long, narrow cluttered galley kitchen here at Roseholme Cottage.
I am not a neat housekeeper. I am oddly orderly; a lifetime of poor eyesight has me in the habit of always keeping things in the same place. Open any cabinet or drawer (except the junk drawer) and it's organized. But on the macro scale, there are heaps and piles and little if any open countertop space. The pandemic has only added to that -- the various shortages and the inadvisability of spending too much time indoor with random strangers means I keep a lot more food and supplies in stock than I had been previously.
So the kitchen gets piled up. Add a (much smaller) set of snacks for Tam and her supply of soft drinks, and at times it teeters on the edge of minor calamity. This morning, one corner tumbled over, breads, a box of bakery cookies, chips, plasticware and an unused set of large, disposable, freezer-to-microwave bowl slipping floorward. A few items managed to make the whole trip.
There was no easy fix. I temporarily relocated the large stuff, excavated down to a thin strata of expired-in-2021 individually-sized snack bags, summarily disposed of them, sorted out fallen recipes (this is the cookbook corner, or it was supposed to be), got to bare countertop and put the area into some kind of order. The bowls went elsewhere. They looked like a good idea a year ago, but they haven't worked out.
Who knows, maybe I'll tackle the longer stretch of countertop on the other side of the room later on.
Update
1 week ago
7 comments:
Need a tool chest?
https://toolguyd.com/nepros-wood-tool-chest/
See comments for a link to another tool chest.
—Gordon R. Brown
Gordon, it I had that kind of money, I'd spend it on a new Gerstner.
Never heard of Gerstner. Wow...that stuff looks NICE.
I'll hang onto my Milwaukee Packout stuff for now. :)
Talk about champagne tastes. Yikes, but Gerstners are gorgeous.
As costly and impractical as the Nepros toolbox is, their standard tools are not *crazy* expensive and the quality appears to be very high. Their wooden-handled screwdrivers are really outstanding.
Gerstner boxes are expensive new, but they're a lifetime purchase. I own one, bought very used, plus a similar Craftsman made by Union Switch and Signal, who were another large manufacturer of machinist's chests. The real treat with my Gerstner is that it still had the custom-sized Machinery's Handbook in the center drawer!
"The real treat with my Gerstner is that it still had the custom-sized Machinery's Handbook in the center drawer!"
A major score unto itself, indeed!
I cleaned out a kitchen cabinet today. I'll tackle another one before the end of the year.
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