We go to Taco Bell very infrequently, maybe only a couple of times a year. Yet...we have MANY Taco Bell sauce packets in the refrigerator, which by the way, never get used. I'm also questioning why we put them in the fridge. They aren't refrigerated at the restaurant, and I'm sure there are enough preservatives in them to give them a shelf life of oh say....several hundred years. No more saving taco sauce packets I say!
And another - just in case we need it items are cardboard boxes. If something comes in a sturdy box it winds up in the big hole under the house we call the basement. Our trash pick up day is Monday, so last Sunday night I heard Hal in the basement cutting up cardboard. We just finished watching "Hoarders" on TV and something clicked deep within us. We just couldn't convince ourselves that we were saving cardboard for poor people who couldn't afford their own.
Coffee cans used to be a very tempting item to save, but we've gotten past the need to keep them.
My one item I still can't seem to stop saving? Twisty ties that come on a loaf of bread. You never know when you will need one and can't find one. Or worse yet...they stop using them and go to those silly plastic tab things with the whole in them you pull the bread wrapper through. Whew...I broke out in a sweat just thinking about it. I better end this before I become to emotional!
Is there anything you save?
~It is well with my soul
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I'm with you on de-cluttering and saving twisty-ties. I even save those pesky plastic holy ones too. One can never have enough when you bake bread every week. Now to go check the garage for our stack of cardboard boxes...
I save any packaging. Bubble wrap, jiffy bags, boxes. I use it all for when I sell stuff on ebay.
I've never saved a twisty-tie in my life! :D
I save twist ties off bread too. They come in handy for all kinds of things.
bread twistes, yes. I'm also guilty of saving boxes; any kind, fancy ones, cardboard ones, any kind. In fact my friends come to me when they need a neat box to wrap a gift in. lol
I now save glass jars...don't want to store my homemade Salsa and Greek Dressing in plastic. I too, keep a few twisty ties but I love good old fashioned clothes pins for closing off bread bags and such.
"Hoarders" is just so sad...to see that people choose to live like that, breaks my heart. And if honest it grosses me out...sigh.
Love you Sissy!
You crack me up.
What don't I save?
The end.
No wait...one more thing...you are aware, aren't you, that the bread people color code those twisty ties? Each color represents a day of the week - that's how the bread guy knows which old bread to pull off the shelf and send to the "day old bread stores." See...I'm just a wealth of information, aren't I?
Pat,
I'm with you! I just wish i could get the LOC (Lovable Old coot), my husband, to get on board with de-cluttering. :)
Good you for !
LOL! I go through time s when i just want to throw out everything! I've been in such a mood for the last few months...my house is getting cleaned out little by little! :)
Hi, Pat! Just saw your comment to Judy on Facebook and it jogged my overloaded memory, lol! You're practically my neighbor! Our first year in Michigan has been such a whirlwind. I have to say preparing for our huge move across the country cured me on keeping anything but the barest of essentials anymore. After 28 years in one house I NEVER want to have to purge like that ever ever EVER again. Cured my Dear Hubby on his packrat ways, too, lol! I am amazed at how well we're doing on keeping things neat and tidy here. Helps to have a ton of storage too. Keep warm...snow is falling pretty good here right now.
I don't save the bread twisties, but I have a ziploc bag full of the twisties that come with garbage bags. They're longer, and work well for lots of things (I use them when I store my Christmas lights, for instance). I also save rubber bands that come on mail. Always need one for something.
And as for the boxes...well, that's enough confessions from me! Ha!
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