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lala · 02-23-2006, 04:39 PM

(sp? did I not take phonics?? is that how you spell dilemna? hmm, please someone correct me if I am wrong!)

I don't have mountains to declutter anymore. PHEW!
I get caught up in the tiny little junk, which I always seem to have one or 2 boxes of, and I find I always condense into a small box or pile rather than fully finish sorting out.
Ok, for whatever reason, THIS MINOR DETAIL is eating away at my head...
I have 2 coffee grinders. Both I bought at yard sales for like super cheap, i think 10 cents and 50 cents. Both work great (I use them for powdering herbs and spices I don't drink coffee). They don't exactly take up much room in the cabinet, AND I just got a really nice marble mortar and pestle for FREE.
I don't use them very often but I do use them.
So, my question is:
what would you do? would you keep both? keep one?
I think I have some OCD going on if this is what is bugging me..lol.

crazyestonian · 02-23-2006, 08:10 PM

I would keep one spice grinding thing. Either mortar and pestle or one coffee grinder. Why more? Personally I´d prefer mortar and pestle, but that is because I ¨grind¨ our spices by chopping them on a cutting board with a chef´s knife, lol, and I do that a couple of times a week. I haven´t found the kind of mortar and pestle I want (one like they use in labs).

And it is dilemma. One advantage of having English as second language is that phonics stuff is easy for me. My mother tongue is phonetic

stephanielynn · 02-24-2006, 12:03 AM

i'd definitely only keep one grinder. and keep the mortar and pestle if it does something that the grinder or something else won't do!

juliebelle · 02-24-2006, 10:18 PM

go put them in a box in the garage for a week or two and see if you miss the two extras...then you can pass them on if you realize you're good without them.

mamabear · 02-25-2006, 01:40 AM

I'd keep one grinder and the mortar and pestle. I find I use them both for different reasons. Just my preference.