Moving Overseas – Kitchen Purge
Ok, now that the kitchen has been Spring cleaned and I’ve got my inspiration for the One Room Workout Spring Cure it was time to purge as if I was moving overseas.
For inspiration on what a truly awesome, but tiny kitchen consists of I turned to my favorite food blogger Smitten Kitchen and her list of items to build a smitten kitchen with from her tiny New York apartment kitchen. If she can survive without 17 bread pans, I can!
Next it was time to make a list of what was staying. My list is based off of this Kitchen_clean_out list from helloKitchen. I had to make my own because honestly no can-opener on the list, but the have ice cream maker?
Then it came time for the actual purging. Here’s the process if you want to try it at home.
- Lay out a queen size sheet on the floor.
- Reference the list and remove each item from the kitchen to the sheet one by one checking the item off of the list as you go.
- Take all remaining items out of kitchen and put them in another room. If you haven’t gone looking for it and used it within 30-days it goes to goodwill.
The 30-day items work like turning your hangers backwards in your closet. After several months, anything still hung-up backwards isn’t needed. Same thing applies here for extra spatulas, mixing bowls, Tupperware, etc.
What went in the garage sale: (140ish individual items)
1. 2 Qt. Revereware pot w/lid
2. 1 Qt. Revereware pot
3. Kitchen scale – plastic
4. iced tea pitcher
5. 12 farberware steak knives w/wooden handles
6. Hamilton Beach blender 12 speed
7. 2 – metal mesh hand colanders
8. metal freezer thermometer
9. metal refrigerator thermometer
10. non-stick bundt pan (new)
11. non-stick angel food cake springform pan 9 x 3 in.
12. non-stick springform cheese cake pan 10 x 4 in.
13. 2 baby angel food cake pans
14. 1 plastic bottle funnel
15. 9.5 in Pyrex pie pan blue
16. 2 10 in. square wire cooling racks
17. 12in. metal frying splatter shield
18. 2 New 8×10 flexible chopping mats
19. Glass cutting board 12 x 14
20. Plastic cutting board 14 x 16
21. Mexican ceramic serving bowl
22. 2 boiler pans
23. 4 small nonstick metal bread pans
24. 4 medium nonstick metal bread pans
25. 4 large nonstick metal bread pans
26. 3 – 6 cup muffin pans 2 nonstick metal, 1 silicone (New)
27. George Foreman Grill drip pan
28. melon baller
29. 4 metal grill skewer
30. 2 green cloth napkins
31. 2 red cloth napkins
32. 2 nonstick cookie pans 10 x 14
33. Rainforest Cafe specialty glass
34. 2 plastic cat food bowls
35. 2 ceramic cat food bowls
36. 1 Pfaltzgraf Kitty Food bowl
37. Corning (Pyrex type) 9 x 11 casserolle dish
38. 3 tea light holders
39. 3 Coffee/Tea mugs
40. Large Christmas themed serving platter
41. 4 small Christmas themed serving plates
42. star shaped candy bowl
43. 4 crystal champagne glasses
44. 8 glass punch bowl glasses
45. 24 plastic paper plate holders
46. glass butter server
47. 3 cat food can tupperware covers
48. 2 large tupperware beverage pichers
49. 1 nonstick wok
50. Giant wok with vegetable steamer and double boiler
51. Chocolate fountain
52. large electric powered griddle/grill with cleaning scraper (new)
53. 4 Marquis Waterford champagne glasses, 1 wine
54. 6 handmade pottery bowls
55. 1 hand mixer
56. 1 spaetzle maker
57. 4 misc. tupperware lids
58. 1 pizza pan
59. 2 crystal tall candle holder
60. 2 crystal bud vases
*I know that it seems kind of incompatable to be purging as if I was moving overseas at the same time as I am pulling a room together (ala Spring Cure). So let’s state a few assumptions.
I am assuming that this “theoretical move” is being paid for by a potential employer, but that I am given a moving allowance so I can bring whatever I truly love with me, but if I bring only the things I love and absolutely no clutter I can keep the difference in moving costs as cash.
If I were paying for a move myself the cost to move some items by weight is more than their replacement cost, for instance a $10 item could cost $12 to move so it would be cheaper to just discard it and rebuy it after moving. That’s not what I’m trying to accomplish right now, but it would be during a real move.
