monday musings on the things we collect

At some point during the stay-at-home experience, I jumped onto the decluttering and simplifying wagon. It's something I've meant to do for entirely too long now but without the excuse of being away from home all the time, well, there were no more excuses (okay, there were but harder to sell). 

If you asked me before 2020 what I collected, I would have answered crystal horses and Venetian masks. And I do ... but, it turns out, they are the smallest of my, um, let's just call them collections. 

This didn't come as a huge surprise, but I have a mug problem. I love mugs. If you've followed me on social media for any length of time, you've seen many of my mugs. And, well, yeah ... just look at the top of any blog post and my addiction is kinda obvious. When I reorganized the kitchen cabinets, I moved the mugs to the larger of the cabinets right above the espresso machine. My justification was "above the espresso machine" but that didn't fool anyone. 

And you'll be proud to know that even during the stay-at-home stint I managed to acquire a new mug.

It's a well known quirk in my family that I have to save every cork. There are containers throughout the house literally overflowing (especially now that I haven't gone to stores in search of another glass container. Several years ago I made a cork board but really, that didn't make much of a dent in the stash.

Griffin is trying to help with the overflow situation by stealing corks and taking them to his own hiding place (same place I assume he keeps the erasers and pens and whatever else he manages to steal from me).

And one more thing I seem to be incapable of passing up ... cooking magazines. Now if I only made some of the recipes in those magazines!

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