Do you use your Hearth/Keeping Room?
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11 years ago
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Annie Deighnaugh
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Comments (22)Welcome to all my relatives. I live in a small 4 room house. DH has one bedroom for his office, stuff,& twin bed on boxes. Mine has my huge computer desk, and no floor space to put anything of any size. My cat sleeps by my electric radiator heater. I have long plastic storage boxes under my bed, a small four drawer unit in my closet, & am hiding a new gardening book that I paid #30 for & that was 1/2 price, an extra shelf hung on the closet door piled high and underhung w/ clothes. Storage container under my "puter desk. A bench at the foot of my bed piled high w/ papers & books, also on my bed that rotates from my desk chair to bed day/night. And the list goes on. My living room is called a ware house by one son, but it is oxygen blessed w/ way of the many house plants and I want more. My kitchen has 2 aero gardens hung on the wall, plants on all windosw sills, DH put 2 extra shelves on 2 windows. I use plastic shelving units because the kitche is bereft of adequate cabinets. DH built shelving down the basement stairs for pantry & it is maxed out w/ food. Oh yes, the bathroom is a postage stamp size room for one person unless one is in the tub. The steps are over populated w/ stuff also. The bottom of the steps received a shelf unit yesterday that is not full yet. The window has 2 plastic crates w/ a box on top for storeage, w/ 2 6" pots of onion sets on top w/ 8 noses up to get the afternoon sun. 2 rose bushes live there and the garlic pot went outside 2 days ago. I finally brought up the last 5 amaryllis buulbs from the basemnt yesterday, cleaned out the pots, cut off the roots and repotted them w/ fresh dirt that lives outside the back door on the walk w/ 2 other bags of potting amendments. My basement is a vertiable warehouse of food, dishes, laundry machines, storage storage, junk, empty boxes, exercise equipment that we threaten to use some day. My DH keeps paint cans, et all in one corner........ His garage is worse, no car has been in the 2 car building since we moved here 3 years ago. Sunday he hauled out an oil tank to make room for shelf units so he could unload tools etc. from his car plus the stuff he brought home from his mothers, she is moving into assisted living... He put up a canopy for his car, and it only fits 2/4 way under it now because of the stuff he hauled home, & I stacked there. Being a handy mand he has all kinds of advantages to adopt other peoples cast offs that might be usefull someday. Not to mention what is lined up against and behind the garage, including the suburban he got 25 plus years ago, along w/ the other 2 suburbans that live in the front of the garage along w/ my buick and the 23 foot trailor we hauled to Oregon and back 17 yeass ago, overloaded and had to stop to put stuff in a storage unit that we retrieved coming back a year later, & only 1/2 of it came back... and it is full too.....another trailor lives on daughters property, full of goodies, like a small pot belly stove I want to use for a plant stand someday, and my 30 year old Mother Earth magazines. Hoarding is an addiction according to an article in Readers Digest last month. If/when I move to my won home I will have a gigantic "curb sale" Not to mention all the 70 plus pots of flowering plants in the yard. When I get my own home they go w/ & some that will get dug up too. 3 violet leaves I propagated produced 13 babies & I put the original leaves back in water. YUP I belong to this family... Vangy love to play in the dirt & in the kitchen w/ food....See MoreWhere do you keep your infrequently used small appliances?
Comments (21)My infrequently used ones are stored in my big closet with my other food processing equipment. That includes my four pressure canners, meat and grain grinder, meat slicer, tortilla maker and the steamer, though I think I'd use the steamer more if I moved it and stopped forgetting I own it. I keep my vacuum sealer there, and the big crock pot and 18 qt electric roaster. I also have a blender in there that I about never use. I keep the cast iron there, it's for emergency use on the wood stove if the electricity goes out. The rest are in the kitchen, and I made lots of extra storage for them as I'm a small appliance junky. Belgian waffle iron Electric skillet Rice maker two crock pots Electric wok Ice cream maker (not used that often though) Two stand mixers (one is heavy duty for making bread) hand held mixer stick blender Coffee grinder The coffee maker is the only item that stays out on the counter Not long ago we finally got the window seat done, and that gave me three more drawers for storage. Right now they have my cake pans and other baking equipment that was overflowing from other areas. At one time I though I could store everything in the kitchen, but I keep finding more stuff I want for the kitchen....See MoreTrash - where do you keep yours and do you like it?
Comments (22)We also have much more recycles than trash. So I need a larger bin for recycle, and a small one for trash. I like the idea of keeping the trash smaller because it will get emptied more often too. I want to keep the pull out narrow so not to give up much cabinet space. So the trick is to find 2 trash can that are narrow, and together take up about 24" depth. The double bins I saw on Rev-a-shelf were all at least 12 - 15" wide, and much less than 24" deep. Also they are much shorter than under counter height, so not an efficient use of space. The photo from Judydel looks closest to what I want. What other brands should I look at? We also started composting recently. Right now I just use an old bread bag to collect stuff during the day, and then dump it in the compost bin after dinner clean-up. My BFF was composting years before it was fashionable. She didn't even have a disposal. She keep a small pretty ceramic pot w/lid on her counter next to the sink. She lined it with a bread bag, and collected her veggie scraps there. Every other day she would dump the contents into the compost pile. So I plan on getting a "compost pot" for my counter too....See MoreI do, do you? Keep a cooler in your car?
Comments (24)I keep a cooler in both of my cars. If I go to Pierre which is 40 miles away I uusally need it. When we go to Bismarck which is 3 hours away I for sure need it. I like to shop in ND because there is no sales tax on grocery and there is more competition because there is more grocery stores to choose from. In Pierre all we have is WM and a Super Valu. We have a grocery store 9 miles over but I don't go in there very ofter because the prices are high beins it is a town of 700...See Morebuilding_a_house
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