Too much stuff: my plan to combat hoarding
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Too Many Choices/ Help planning my garden
Comments (20)I try to cover a wide range with a relatively limited number of plants and only have the ones that taste good (to me). I like at least one early and one hybrid and a grape or cherry so Early Girl is my early and my hybrid. Grapes and cherries also tend to be early. Once I have that covered I look for med to large good tasting fruits in a range of colors, at least a couple each of reds and pinks, a yellow/orange and a black. I would like to add a green or stripe this year. I find the variety makes for very pleasing bowls of tomatoes and fun, appetizing dishes and sandwiches while still tasting wonderful. I find I can cover that with only about 8 or 9 plants. I don't want to plant more than I can keep up with, and I live alone, so unless I start canning big time, its enough plants for me. I would decide how many you want to plant, and make a list by early, mid and late season, as well any other features you are trying to include and start narrowing down the ones you want try and the ones you want to plant again from last year. Try to keep your real favorites from previous seasons and add at least a couple new ones each year. I just learned about the different Brandywines last year and plan to start trying the different varieties. I will start with the Suddarth, and you may want to continue that one and add one other each year until you find out which ones work best in your area which taste the best to you. Some people like sweet tomatoes, some dislike the sweet ones and like very acidic ones. Its all pretty subjective, but you will find about 2 dozen or so that well liked and are repeatedly recommended here, like Brandywine Suddarth, Kellogs Breakst, KBX, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, etc....See MorePeople who hoard: My Mother's Garden
Comments (21)I saw this a lot when I was working as a paramedic. Homes so full they had paths through them ( liked mentioned above). Counters piled two feet high, stacks of news papers and magazines three feet deep and to the ceiling, garbage, plastic bags, you name it. It was always a nightmare trying to treat patients in those homes. They were also almost always in some piled up room in the back of the house too. You can't get a gurney down a hall filled with newspapers. Can you imagine a fire in those homes? I'll never forget the first home I went to like that, you couldn't see the floor. You had to walk over plastic grocery bags,paper plates, and who knows what else. It also had dog feces through out because they had about five little dogs in the house. These were all in San Jose and Monterey California. My mom isn't a hoarder to this extreme, but she has potential. She RARELY gets rid of things. She throws away garbage and scraps of things but she has make up and other products from the 70's, a drawer full of rubber bands and bread ties, gobs of plastic bags. I've gone in to her pantry and said "mom how long have you had this (fill in the blank) in here?" I've been out of the house for 15 years and I KNOW there are things on her shelves that were there when I lived there. She has paints and cleaning products from my childhood still in her garage. I am sure her holding on to those things and constantly seeing those same old things every single day are what contribute to her depression, but she says everything is still useful and good, so she keeps them. I can just barely stand to be in her house anymore and it was the home I was born and raised in. Sorry, I didn't mean for this to be a vent about my mom....See MoreAnyone have two soap dispensors? Too much stuff?
Comments (7)Swap out the air gap for your second dispenser after inspection. On my big single sink I had one hole for faucet, one for instant hot, one air gap, one air switch, and one for soap. Some things you need, but I'm ready to skip the soap next time. I got a dish drainer that hangs in the sink...had to hang over the air gap and disposal. Same with my veggie washing basket. I didn't think all those things LOOKED bad, but they FUNCTIONED badly. Didn't appear that cluttered because my faucet was the size of a rocket....See MoreIs my floor plan too congested (pics)
Comments (6)I'm far from an expert, but some parts of my layout are similar to yours, so here goes. I have a 36" susan to the left of my 30" range. Is yours a 36" or smaller? I would not want a smaller one for both the cramped feeling of the range being too close to the corner and for access into the susan cabinet. My susan next to my range opens the opposite direction as yours (the hinges are on the other side of the cabinet). My range sticks out an inch or two from the front edge of the cabinets and my susan door would not open very far if I had it hinged like yours shows. I have my trash at the end of my peninsula like yours is, but my sink cabinet is right in the corner and my DW is to the left of the sink, so the layout is not identical to yours. I also think your peninsula might be a little longer than mine. We really like the trash location because someone throwing trash or recyclables doesn't have to come into the kitchen very far to toss them. But if my peninsula were much longer, it wouldn't work well for the person cleaning at the sink. My peninsula is 6 feet long from the wall to the end. Are you sure that you want a corner susan to the right of the sink? We put a 24" cabinet at the wall end of the peninsula facing away from the kitchen, which is a common solution. The corner susans are very expensive, but maybe not more than a 24" cab + 2 x 12" cabs. But, if you do what I suggested, you might be able to rearrange things so that you can get some bigger cabinets - I would want more and wider drawers. Good luck!...See Morequiltglo
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