We are the same. A few that we go through a lot of, and a lot that we go through really slowly. The number in your pile of spices looks very similar to how many we have 
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
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Donāt look in my fridge. Iām the King of Condiments.
We also have a lot of Old Bay, which is admittedly the thing youāre given when you move to Maryland.
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Just beware of the sandworm!
Shai-Hulud.
Waiting for cabinets, when Iām not on my 3 meetings I have scheduled for this morning.
Spent Sunday cleaning out the spare bedroom and the play/tv area of the basement. Now they are useable again. Today Iām going to purge out the storage area under the kitchen. There isnāt nearly as much in there as there used to be but itās still too much. I donāt plan on doing any painting or improvements so this purge is really all thatās going to happen before we move. Itāll be nice to get stuff out of the house too. And to get the last of the crap from the ex out of my houseā¦ Heās not paying storage fees to me so he can find somewhere else to store it. 
Results:
Poor trash man is going to have a workout tomorrow. And I bet thereāll be at least half again as much stuff by the time Iām done in the storage area. Hope they take it all. 
But at least I wonāt have to move it!
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Got to be satisfying to have that space again.
It is. And especially since I wonāt have to move all that junk. The storage area is bad again too, but only because the kids refused to throw things out when we purged their rooms. So we are going to use our newly found space to sort and toss the garbage. I know what I have up there and what I can toss, so my area will be pretty easy. I have about twelve years of documents to shred. Not sure if Iām gonna do it at home or find a shred day. I can take the shreddings to the office for kitty litter, but itās such a mess. Alternatively, idk when the next shred day is and I donāt want to house this stuff any longer. Or I could shred and toss. 
So many choices. I am pretty excited to see the storage area emptied out. Been a long time. I did it a couple years ago but I know I can do even better this time. 
Yeah, one thing to be realistic with if you have to push someone to clean stuff, is you can get into weird deadlock situations where you want to clean stuff out, but donāt have space, soā¦
The follow-up is me and $Wife both seem to get an itch to attach the Third Bedroom of Doom (which weāve used for storage since we moved in) but only when the other is not homeā¦ So we do a little, but thereās so much of the otherās stuff we donāt want to get rid of.
Shred days are great. We have an OK shredder, but still end up dumping stuff on shredder days because we find a pile of old files or whatever.
As I write this, theyāre dropping off cabinets which will probably take up my remaining free space, admittedly.
Cabinets have arrived! Noodle is extremely confused, and we have to figure out how much door-mismatch is normal: the couple we opened range from āgoodā to āāminorā to nearly a quarter of an inch (thatās some value in mm for those not using Freedom Units). I have no idea whatās just an adjustment issue and whatās a repair issue.
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Just some feedback on Hunter Douglas blinds. They are nice. They are extremely expensive. Their ālifetimeā guarantee is actually 7 years. Donāt buy them.
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$Wife and I just measured for blinds today, but I donāt remember that brand being discussed.
I have had absolute heck dealing with a hunter douglas rep/supplier in $hometown. The company directly, was okay but the ālifetime warrantyā is not lifetime of product but 7 years for the internal cables and 8~10 for the out side.
I submitted a webform request for the part yesterday. I just got a reply today saying that they would be happy to send me the part, and what length and color cord would I like?
And done. My back is killing me. Too bad tomorrow we have to do the yard. 
Before:
After:
The aftermath. Or at least most of itā¦ We added about a third again as much after I took this. 
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Wow. I clearly did it the hard way. i know the part is on its way now.
Went through the cabinets last night, and will have to call in two defective today.
- Minor ādingā on a drawer facing, probably easy to fix.
- the ātopā box-structure of one is all ripped up. Maybe occurred in packaging, but stillā¦ Iām paying a lot for these cabinets.
The second one is really the issue, as it might delay install. Luckily itās a lower cabinet, so thatās a day or two behind the uppers.