Going, going, going

MORE vases.  OK, the bottles aren't really vases, but I think I had it in the back of my mind that I could use them as such.  What I am keeping: the medium-sized blue one, which was my mother's, and which I can remember her using sometimes.  Also, the small clear glass one, origin unknown, just because I like it.  Going: the Sioux City bottle, origin unknown, the small blue/white vase, origin unknown, and the Coke bottle, which has a story:  My best friend and I had gone to lunch one day, were served Coke in these bottles, and took them with us, even though I suspect we weren't meant too, but no one stopped us and we thought they looked cool. That was about 1989.  I think my friend, who lives in much smaller spaces than I do, purged hers perhaps five or ten years ago.  It's time for mine to go as well.  I don't display it for its own sake, nor do I use it as a vase.

MORE pitchers.  These two were both my mother's.  They were both displayed in her home at one time or another.  I sorta like the cookie-icing decoration of the one on the right, but it isn't really my style.  The one on the left has been corralling my knitting needles for some time now and seems to be working out for that.  Also, I suspect it is Rookwood pottery, and thus may be worth something if I get into a selling mood. 

Mixers.  I use the one in the box - it was a gift from a friend (the same one from the Coke bottle story).  Apart from my box fetish, I also kept the box to hold the other beaters (hooks, in this case)  The other mixer was a gift as well - my brother gave it to me because he thought I would think it looks cool, and he is right.  BUT, I don't use it.  I didn't even use it during the holidays when I went on a massive baking frenzy, as I found it very easy to just clean the beaters on my regular mixer.  God bless bro, when he gave it to me (he had gotten it at a thrift store) he gave me permission then and there to not keep it if I didn't want too.  He is a minimalist my both nature and circumstances and wouldn't deliberately burden me with something I don't want.

Miscellaneous stuff. 
Taking it clockwise from the top - got the kitchen timer because I thought I should have one - after all, my mother did.  But looking back, she might have only gotten one after the one on her stove broke. She used it for the laundry (communal laundry room) more than for cooking. I have a timer on my stove and another on my microwave.  There are probably timers on my cell phones as well. 
Pudding dish?  I originally bought two of these - again, a habit of mine - I think for the cat's food, which, again, I have established I have plenty of other dishes for.  Not sure if I broke or donated the other one, I know I only have the one now.
Kitten puppet - In 1989 my father visited me at college - the only family visit prior to my graduation - and bought me a expensive stuffed cat.  I'm keeping that, it has strong memories attached.  Sometime later I bought this little puppet to be its "kitten" and the setup was cute but again, these are not displayed together, and the kitten can go.  They always find homes easily, anyway.
Mini-notebook - purchased in a tourist town a couple of years ago for the legitimate reason that I need somewhere to write little notes just like everybody else.  But about a year later it was supplanted by a similarly small notebook that was designed to have an attached pen, which I definitely need, and now also by an app on my smartphone.
Cheese slicer, origin unknown - I don't slice cheese, I either cut blocks with a knife, or grate it.  I've already gotten rid of a guillotine-style slicer I once bought my parents that they never used, and that I used only once in a while because it was a PITA to clean for what I got out of it.
Nutcrackers and nut picks - belonged to my parents, and I do have brief childhood memories of cracking walnuts with them.  They sat in the back of my parents' silverware drawer until they passed to me five years ago.  I eat peanuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, and pistachios, but not walnuts.  I am keeping the picks however, as they are small and look like something I could use as a general household tool.  It pains me a little to separate the nutcrackers from the nut picks, but I suspect I'm not totally rational there.
Some kind of implement ("Mini-whip"), unopened package, from Pampered Chef.  No idea how it landed with me - I've never attended one of their events. I am certain my mother never did, either. I've never been at my baking and thought, oh yeah, now is where I could really use that mini-whip thingie.
Butter pats - bought from eBay because they are the pattern of some of my father's Santa Fe Railroad plates (which I have since sold on eBay!) . They are too small to use for anything, and in fact too small to carry the backstamp such as seen on other items in the series.
Candle stuff (center) - these came from my brother's house.  I thought they were cool, and liked the concept of a candle snuffer, esp that this one is silver or silverplate.  But, I've done a post on how I'm not really into candles.  So the candle paraphernalia can go.

Exeunt.