Squeezing into a 1920 Kitchen
After 16 years in a cramped, cookie-cutter Los Angeles condo, and a hard-hearted discard of everything we considered non-essential, we moved to a sweet 1920 home in Wyoming with three times as much space. Heaven!
However, that increased space did not apply to the kitchen. Oops.
When we were working, the kitchen was not the most important room in our lives. We ate out more often than we made meals at home. We blamed it on fatigue from work, commute, and lack of sleep from our clashing schedules.
Not so now.
It's amazing how much kitchens can change in 50 years. Our Wyoming kitchen has NO drawers and fewer cabinets than our 1970s Los Angeles condo. If we didn't buy a sideboard to contain our flatware, knives (where did we get all those knives?), and dishes, we would be eating with our fingers out of kitchen pots.
I expect that, as we continue to ease into retirement, we will skinny down all the stuff I crammed into our Wyoming kitchen. I'm certain we will find we don't need 20 mugs (not counting the 4 Christmas mugs) for our morning coffee, over 40 plastic leftover containers, 14 glass and pyrex containers, or 5 cutting boards. There's more, but I got tired of counting.
I also expect that we will find ourselves wondering how two people could need so much to live in a place we didn't love.
