Done. Wow, that cupboard shelf looks so clean and neat now.

I didn't count the before, but I threw away a lot. Now I have five sugars and one bottle of sprinkles and a bottle of blue beads. Kept most of the tubes of icing you write with, as many were not used, two sets of liquid food coloring (one still in a sealed package) and what was left of a very nice set of paste colors. The paste colors were expensive and the colors are so nice and vivid when mixed with icing. It doesn't take much either. They are in little pots that remind you of what came in paint-by-number kits. Some colors I haven't even opened yet and it's been quite a few years now. Bought them at JoAnn Fabrics.

I think these things are good forever. Not purging them in my kitchen!

Do you? Have you ever tasted old sprinkles? They have little taste and sometimes smell musty. Maybe you use yours more than two or three times a year.

Yeah, everything goes stale or oxidizes.

Decorations for baked goods are inexpensive. Why go through all the work to make something for an important occasion and then use stale ingredients? Same is true about flour - it also goes stale, buy it fresh if you're doing something special.

Most sprinkles have no taste so that is not surprising. There are a few that have chocolate either white or regular in the center surrounded by sugar. Those can be effected by the normal warming and cooling in a kitchen. I am wondering if the problem is not so much as being old but not putting the lid on tight. If you can just do a light twist and the lid comes off the lid is not on tight.

If a cap is put on tight, the contents are still exposed to air.