When was the last time you dug all the way to the back of your kitchen utensil drawer to see what was there?It's amazing what can accumulate over time. I read a good spring cleaning tip on one of my favorite blogs, Apartment Therapy, from organizing guru Peter Walsh. He recommends doing a one-month cardboard box test.
You dump all your tools into a cardboard box. When you need one, pull it out of the box, use it, then put it back into your drawer -- because it's obviously needed.
Everything that's left at the end of a month in the box can theoretically be purged. There will always be a few tools that you do need for special items that aren't used every month, but I think this is a great approach.
I could probably stand to do this for a lot of things other than kitchen utensils...
Camera: Canon 40D with 430EX Speedlite, 1/125s, f/4 at ISO 400
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