Upside Down And Back To Front

I finally got my bakeware sorted! It has only taken 4 years! When we came to Cornerstones for Christmas in 2020, I realised that in the 11 years since we'd got this property, I'd been accumulating bakeware here.

If I was here for a week or more, and I wanted to make cakes or pies, I'd pick up tins in CS, or sales. And when we retired, I brought my pans from Dorset, and I had a lot of duplicates! On Saturday afternoon, I pulled the two huge plastic boxes out of the relatively inaccessible corner cupboard and sorted everything out.

I now have a large box of perfectly good, but surplus, bakeware, ready to go back to a CS. I've admitted that the still wrapped silicon macaron sheet is never going to be used, and the heavy shortbread mould brought back from holiday 20 years ago, and used twice, is a waste of space.

I have reduced the collection by 50%, and made a careful list of what I have kept. And also noted that my large rectangular springform pan [as used for big celebration cakes] will only fit in the right hand oven, below the fan, with the oven shelf put in upside down [and needs 1½ times my regular Xmas cake recipe] The cupboards are much tidier.

I had an unexpected flash of inspiration last week. I want to wear my pretty blue skirt over Christmas, and I wanted a simple plain blue sweater to go with it. But I've been very strict all year about clothes buying. 

I suddenly realised that I could wear the pretty blue cardi which Steph gave me a few years ago, but put it on back to front! It goes beautifully, and looks great under my black jacket. Wearing B2F was very popular in WW2 during clothes rationing. 

Have you done any successful decluttering recently? 

Do you ever wear things B2F? 

[I know Kezzie tucks in dresses to wear as tops]