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This week the prompt of if I were a hoarder got me thinking. I personally am trying to declutter as as much as I can this year. Many of you may know that I do have a passion for cooking and baking.
I only started really cooking and baking after Doggie boy was born and since them have collected many different cooking and baking equipments and gadgets.
After clearing up and repacking all my stuff I realized that I really have too many cutters in my house. Can you believe that I have the whole set of Hello Kitty, Thomas the Train, Winnie the pooh and a whole box of unopened Wilton animal sandwich cutters at home. They do look cute and can make really lovely cookies or shaped sandwiches but with nearly 50 over different pieces I really feel that I have an excess of cookie/sandwich cutters and shouldn’t be adding to my collection with impulse buys.
I really don’t need so many different shaped cutters and should be able make lovely looking pieces from my existing collection.
What do you hoard?
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Reviewer11
September 8, 2011 at 3:45 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Wow, that’s a lot! Maybe if you pick the ones you would like the most and keep those.
I have lots of stuffed animals, so I guess that’s my collection.
Dominique
September 8, 2011 at 8:40 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I guess I would have to test out all of them again before deciding on which to keep or toss. I use the cutters for fondant cake decoration and cutting cookies and for the kids bake sessions ..so far the metal ones seem to cut better but the plastics are safer for the kids to handle.
jfb57
September 8, 2011 at 4:48 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
What a brilliant post! I didn’t realise there were so many different types of cutter around! What a great thing to collect – yes – collect. If you don’t want to get rid of them turn them into a collection (hoarding with permission!)
Dominique
September 8, 2011 at 8:41 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
@jfb57,
I like that thought. hoarding with permission
Kathy
September 8, 2011 at 6:13 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Kitchen gadgets of course! Also my quilt fabric stash has been growing!
Anna
September 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I really like that last comment – hoarding with permission! There’s a great craft you can do to take your cutters, paste a picture onto the back and turn them into tree ornaments. But I guess that would be a lot of ornaments…
Diane
September 8, 2011 at 7:49 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
At least cookie cutters don’t take up a lot of room, right?
Galit Breen
September 8, 2011 at 8:20 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I hear you on the decluttering- a goal of mine, too!
I think {and so does my husband} that I hoard books. There are worse things, but oh my my kids’ shelves!
Adrienne
September 8, 2011 at 8:52 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Oh I have a ton of cutters too. We use them for playdoh sometimes! I hoard books! Thanks to the Mama Kat I realize I just might have a serious problem. LOL Stopping by from the workshop.
Gattina
September 8, 2011 at 10:16 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
It’s not really a question of need or no need, it now became a collection. So put them on a shelf as I did with my cat collection. And there is not only a shelf but severals and a vitrine and cats of all kinds all over the house. See you can still collect cutters !
Danielle
September 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I can see how this might happen. I have seen some pretty neat cookie cutters out there. I can’t keep them well in my house as the kids play play doh with them too much…Found you from the workshop! Love it!!
Dominique
September 9, 2011 at 8:25 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
@Danielle,
Playdoh is something which I’ve managed to not allow the the kids to have at home as I personally don’t like it.. the kids don’t miss it as they too get to play with fondant and making cookies with the cutters.
Sarah ~ Magnolia Surprise
September 8, 2011 at 11:51 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
You could use those plastic ones for the kids to use with play-doh or as stencils in coloring projects! My granddaughter loves to use them like that (I just don’t have as many as you do!) As for hoarding, what don’t I hoard! I have to watch Hoarding on TV to remind myself that I’m not so bad after all!! ; D
(great U post, by the by!)
JimmyFJames
September 8, 2011 at 11:52 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Wow. That is a lot but I am sure you could use them!
I know my wife would LOVE the winnie the pooh cutters!
Visiting from MamaKats
Sarah ~ Magnolia Surprise
September 8, 2011 at 11:58 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
How about using the plastic one for the kids to use when playing with Play-doh or as stencils when coloring? My granddaughter loves to do that, although I don’t have as many as you do!
As for hoarding, I have to watch Hoarders on TV just to convince myself that I not REALLY a hoarder!!
Lisa
September 9, 2011 at 12:35 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Okay, after careful consideration Ihave to admit to hoarding books. BUt it’s really not that bad, right? I just tell my husband that I’m insulating the house one book at a time, I mean they are usually in a bookcase, next to an exterior wall, so I can justify their purpose as keeping the cold or hot out whichever the case may be. But oops, I also tell him that about painting the walls, a frequent occurance at our home. So I probably hoard gallons of semi-gloss paint as well.
Dominique
September 9, 2011 at 8:23 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
@Lisa,
Hoarding books is NEVER bad especially if they can be passed down to your kids or grandkids in the future.
storybeader
September 9, 2011 at 1:00 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
for sandwiches? They look like toys to me! That’s how much I shop in the food prep section… {:-Deb
Rocky Mountain Woman
September 9, 2011 at 1:20 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Cooking and baking tools and supplies!
lol…
Book4MyDaughter
September 9, 2011 at 6:52 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
It sounds like you could make some money on eBay—then you could buy more! Loved the post—very funny.
Forever friends
September 9, 2011 at 8:56 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Use them on your bento
I don’t have big collection of cutters. I always think that if I have more cutters, I can make better bento (excuses… )
Judie
September 9, 2011 at 10:14 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I “collect” cocktail napkins with funny quotes written on them. It is a real weakness! One whole shelf in my kitchen is stacked with them!
Erin
September 9, 2011 at 12:57 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
Wait did you say Hello Kitty????? When you are done hoarding those, can you pass them on? I would be willing to trade some kind of holiday cookie cutters….MINI ones….they are so adorable!
Dominique
September 10, 2011 at 7:56 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
@Erin,
I have tons of HK stuff to at home( just didn’t post about it).. besides the cutters we have curtains, cutlery , bags, ornaments and clothes that are Hello Kitty too. It’s quiet easy to get HK stuff over here in Singapore.
Cheryl D.
September 12, 2011 at 5:36 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I’d like to hoard your collection of cookie cutters! They sound great! LOL
Oddyssey
September 12, 2011 at 10:50 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
See, my problem is, if I were to throw one of those sets of cutters out, I’d need to make a whole bunch of cookies in that theme! My mom had that problem. She’d save and save and save and then finally throw out whatever she was saving. That same day, I’d come home from school and need a whole bunch of whatever she threw out. Totally frustrating. So, she stopped throwing stuff out. Results: a whole family of packrats! LOL Glad I’m not the only one though! Stopped by from Mama Kat’s.
Ashley
September 13, 2011 at 4:21 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I hoard pretty much everything…I have so many things that when I moved my stuff out to the garage to recarpet my room, I never moved everything back in…and I’m still unpacking, 2 weeks later. I don’t want to throw the stuff away, but I don’t have anywhere to put it all! So…much….stuff (my AlphabeThursday S post- seriously…that’s how long it’s been)…
~Ashley~
Dominique
September 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I’m still decluttering the house after the renovations. My new monthly goal is to do a room each month. Hope you get to clear the garage soon.
Jenny Matlock
September 14, 2011 at 5:48 am (UTC 8) Link to this comment
I saw the cutest wall decor done with cookie cutters. I think they used tiny little nails and put them so they all touched. It looked kind of like a mosaic and it was really lovely.
I hoard bowls. I am always enchanted with old bowls, new bowls, bright bowls, pyrex bowls…polka dot bowls!
I have no idea why, but i love them!
Thanks for a sweet link this week.
I say, cookie cutters are a necessity!
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