Declutter 2024: What Have You Purged Today? - Page 137

amyb · ‎04-05-2010

Purged an inexpensive 10" ceramic pan, T-Fal from Marshall's...I think you get what you pay for in these...wasn't a good "non-stick" other than the first two times I used it. Oils stained and stuck to it to the point I couldn't get off the stains from the last thing I made in there. Roasted chestnuts! The olive oil cooked into the pan with that one for whatever reason?! Then I noticed the ceramic coating coming off in places, from my trying to scrub it clean previously. Yikes, I sure hope I didn't ingest any of it!! Last year I purged all old, scratched, traditional non-stick pans I had but kept a few brand new ones. Using stainless steel more these days and these two ceramic T-Fal pans I got. The small one is still fine.

Anyhoo..would like to at some point invest in Caraway...at least one pan, the size I just tossed. BF has a set and they work beautifully. Expensive but excellent performance and quality. I don't need a set, but may buy one useful 10" pan.

Did more electronic purging.

Been using up and cooking with what I have in fridge, freezer. Finally, used up everything made, over both holidays, froze some. In the process found more old stuff to toss from fridge.

Today was a food prep kind of day, and some other things, but tomorrow I want to do some organizing and packing up of holiday/seasonal stuff, and maybe some papers. We'll seeeee.......

Nite all.

amyb · ‎04-05-2010

@aprilskies I can relate about your mom's things...just a thought...there is some kind of company, maybe Google it, I forget where I saw this...(also when I worked for a local boutique, one of our "makers" used to make these too)..anyway, they make memory teddy bears, maybe little dolls too...out of a loved ones shirts etc. Maybe pick one of your favorites of her fabrics and have this done. It's just a small memento, doesn't have to take up much "chotchke" space, but just place it somewhere special to remember your mom and what I'm assuming was her love of fabrics or maybe she was a sewer?

At any rate, just one favorite, to have one keepsake of the fabrics without saving them all. Or maybe a few, it could be like a patchwork, or an outfit on the doll or bear, of more than one of the fabrics. Just a thought...I love that idea, but of course you do what you like.

ps. Someone made me one, from that shop I worked in as a gift, from an outdated coat I loved but wasn't going to wear anymore...it was a small 5" little bear, and had a coat made from mine. Just to give you an idea....sometimes the whole bear is made from the fabric itself, other times they have an outfit on from the fabrics too.