Friday, August 3, 2012

A Prescription for Clutter

I'm not posting a photo - I think we all know what a prescription pill bottle looks like. Anyway, I had four of them living where I keep seeds for gardening. Their contents have redistributed partly to a glass spice jar, last seen in a previous post, and also into a plastic film canister I'm keeping, because you really can't get those anymore.

The fallacy of a lot of things I keep is that they look like they would be good to store things in. And that's true. But if I have fewer things in general, then I have fewer things that need to be stored, no?

There's just the one small drawer of seeds, and I recently drafted into service a small wooden box ("it would be good to store things in") to hold the little paper packets that hold most of my seeds, so that area is fairly organized. But even organized, there are too many seeds, even for the huge yard I have now. I don't have the soil/garden beds/irrigation system yet to grow everything I want, and most seeds have a shelf life, and I can and do grow things that are technically past their optimum dates, but still.

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