Downgrading From An Industrial Strength Kitchen

My brother-in-law came by yesterday helping me to clean out the kitchen. A task I thought supposed to be a simple exercise to throw the unnecessary things away turned into an all day fun. Little did I know that over the years we have acquired so many kitchen items.

Due to the mass scale cooking we used to do, including cooking lessons for our kids, we have multiple sets of pots and pans. Dinner ware probably enough for a midsize company party. And all these cooking appliances … I am amazed as we sort out the stuff I will not need. Dropping off a car fully loaded with cooking appliances and utensils to Goodwill is a sight to be seen.

Some of the stuff, however, are not accepted by Goodwill. The thought of all these functional equipments being thrown away feels wasteful. Yet, I do not have the time to sell them slowly through ebay or other means. This tells me the existence of the online 2nd hand markets actually has certain requirements to operate one successfully. Not moving anytime soon is definitely one of them.

Relenting the decisions of what to throw away in the kitchen to my BIL is the best decision I have made for the kitchen area. He is way more knowledgeable than me about everything related to cooking. If I have to go through all the stuff myself to guess what will be useful and what will not be, it will take days before I can clean out the kitchen. Now it took just a day.

Enough ranting, back to clean up and packing.

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