I have absolutely no idea how many pots or pans I have unless I’m looking in my pots-and-pans cabinet. And if I can’t see one pan because it’s hidden behind another pot, it simply doesn’t exist in my universe. Consolidating breaks through that mental block for me. To consolidate, I have to actively move things. Consciously look at things. What was a “decent number of skillets” becomes five skillets. The number five (a concrete number as opposed to my totally ambiguous concept of how many I might have) registers in my brain as more than I need. And as that realization hits me, my eyes are
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