Can we please normalize the pantry?
I enjoy IG, I like quite a few folks on it.
I learn a lot on favorite sites.
But when I see over and over these massive walk in pantries
where these young/youngish gals are showing pantries
that are larger than my kids rooms were, and many are
not even part of the main kitchen and all the storage that is already in there.
well.... ahem
My home is not small, nor grand, but four of us were just fine here
with a pantry behind a single door. Not a walk in, or designer
but tidy and well, see...
(Don't go counting the cocoas they came in sets lol)
With a little thought and organization there is far more than a months worth
of food in here. I will eventually repaint in here I think, as I never painted
the extra shelves I added when we moved in, and it would be fun to see some color.
That will be the extent of my redesign after 29 years.
Because you can afford it, does not necessarily
mean you should have it, or do it, or buy it.
Wants are not needs.
There is a young couple on IG
redoing an older home on their own and when they showed
their beautiful new double doored pantry cupboard they received numerous DMS
and snarky comments about
how small it was. Those folks expected they should
have blown out more walls or added on another room.
Adding on a 2nd bathroom when you have 6 people
living under one roof ? If you can, yes.
But spending tens of thousands of dollars to be able
to store a years worth of food, or show off pretty containers?
I so admire the tiny house movement and if I could park one anywhere in CA
near the kids that was affordable it would already be done.
If I could have downsized from my current home and afforded a small place here or CA,
it would have been done. But since I sacrificed
and budgeted like a mad woman and paid off my home in nine years
it made sense to stay put until I can't any longer.
Climate, raw material usage, and trash floating islands in our seas?
Threats of dissolution of democracy, if not war; for me, would be a deterrent
to such expense etc. But that's just me I suppose. My age is showing.
Now because I've droned on about that, and because our temps
plummeted - here's a fun quick soup
on constant rotation in my house.
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Oh heavens....I usually start off commenting about blog posts somewhat in the same order of the subjects posted about, but I can't stop laughing about Walter and his toys. I'd be so tempted to set up some kind of surveillance for a night or two just to find out what that little guy does. It would make me smile first thing every morning. I have a somewhat similar issue (although not quite as humorous). I have 2 cats and they are not allowed on, nor do they go on the counters...while I am awake at least. They both sleep with me and go to bed when I do, and, like Walter, are (again, usually) there every morning when I wake. But...most often something that was on the counter when I go to bed is no longer on the counter when I get up...it's on the floor and usually in a different room...if not disappeared altogether. As for the pantry...I agree with all you said (and yours looks amazingly well-organized...but I would have expected nothing less from Z)... And funny, after 25 years in this house, we finally remodeled and added on (it was TINY)...but still no formal pantry. Probably because I didn't think about it and was hurried through the entire project, but I make do with the cupboard space...It won't be prettily organized like yours...and not as user-friendly, but it is what it is. ~Robin~ (PS...I wasn't counting cocoa....likely because yours comes in packaging I don't recognize...but I do recognize the Jello boxes. What the heck do you do with all that Jello? LOL. I don't think I've bought a box in a year or better.)
Honestly, I'm so glad you talked about pantries and more! I remember when I was a young adult living in a small house and I was grateful.
Pantry what pantry?
It's criminal and sad what social media has done to wants. Keeping up with the Joneses!
I own my condo, paid off. My pantry is a small closet (coat closet).
I have extras in my bedroom closet, the large things. I could eat for a year too. Having enough food, however, the storage, was a lesson I learned from my mother and grandmother.
I have cut back on my viewing time on Instagram. I also unfollowed quite a few people, only keeping my favorites
Hmmm... the toy thing, that's interesting. Does he sneak out and come back? kinda hilarious!
We have the big pantry, but only because we build for a living so it's very doable. I grew up in an old farm house and all we had was the kitchen cabinets and fridge - no extra closet even. It worked fine.
Great topic! My pantry is my regular cupboard. I never had any room for one. So I shop once a week. Being an introvert, it is good for me to get out, even if I am only talking to the guy who loads my groceries...lol Some days we wake and the living room floor is covered in pom poms. We never even hear her playing. 😊 Kit
Good rant, I feel much the same way. I had a pantry just slightly larger than yours in our old house and thought I had died and gone to heaven. Now here in the townhouse, barely enough space in one cupboard. I long for more and then think, nope...it's a want not a need! Exactly as you say. I need to clear out my tiny freezer and use up the food I have, I am curbing waste and think about our planet often. Yes, maybe it's age, wisdom, less needs.
Well that Walter sure is a stinker! Too funny!
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