The Year of Living Minimally - Week Three

I should have titled this series "The Year to Living Minimally." (Can you tell I'm doing revisions on my seventh novel?!)Last week I cleaned out some drawers. This week I cleaned out some more. Don't worry, though, I have plenty more!Utensil drawer and gadget drawer. What I tossed out from the top left photo is not really visible, but there were packets of salt, pepper, soy sauce, ketchup, etc. all in the back. Old. Ugh.I used to love collecting kitchen gadgets. Some things I never even used - vegetable curlers and brown sugar softeners. A cheap little microplane and a spreader with a chipped handle. I'm keeping the Pampered Chef turkey lifters, even if I only cook one turkey a year. 😉I hate these drawers! Truly the junk drawers, filled with screws and tape and batteries and tools. They're really my husband's domain, but I fixed them up, and put a pile of operating manuals (for small appliances we no longer possess) into the recycle bin.This next one was more emotional...I donated my piano last year, and was happy to see it find a new home. It wasn't the piano I'd grown up with, so I didn't have an attachment to the instrument. And I hadn't played in a very long time. But I still have an antique sheet music cabinet (my mom was so happy when she found it for me!), and it was filled with music. Look at the close-up at the bottom left of this collage - my sister and I took weekly piano lessons from Mrs. Bowser, and in April 1969 (I was 10), she rewarded us with the musical score to Oliver!My sheet music collection includes pop favorites from my high school years, hardcover, spiral-bound books (Great Songs of the Sixties, Big Bands, Timeless Classics), as well as all the classical music I practiced so hard to get right. "Rhapsody in Blue" - I never mastered it. Now I'll listen to it on CD or through my iPod or Pandora, and I'll enjoy it.My friend Lila is accepting the sheet music. She's the Music Director at Providence College, so I'm glad it's going somewhere good. There is one book of music I can't part with, though.I mean, I tattooed my name on his chest! 🎶💙🎶