sometimes a slight notion

The "Becoming Minimalist" blog says:


"Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.  It requires a conscious decision.  It is a counter-cultural lifestyle that stands against the culture of overconsumption...."


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The last drop of olive oil was used in cooking, and I stopped before putting the empty bottle in the kitchen wastebasket.  I kind of don't like to "throw away" the bottle because it's made of thick, green-tinted glass.  It's solid.  Even with the label on, it's attractive.  And on the surface are some designs that are "raised" -- like, if you touch them, you can feel them, standing out from the bottle's surface.


I put in soap-and-water and let stand in the sink.  And thought -- but what would I use it for?  A glass container with a more spacious opening at the top can have many uses.





But this olive oil bottle has a smaller, "pouring-oriented" opening.  Only use I can think of for it is putting in silk flowers.  I have two or three small silk-flower arrangements in "re-purposed" containers; I think it's enough -- am "not into" having more.


> > > Toss that empty olive-oil bottle.  It's garbage.  Don't wash it! -- are you crazy?  (Would the "Becoming Minimalist" blogger say throw it out, it's extra clutter?  Or would he approve the re-purposing?...)


A friend of mine said, years ago one evening, that she kind of hated to throw out empty glass containers because so many of them are very nice, & glass is a "real" thing. 


I knew what she meant.


Why did she have to say that?


Because now here I am -- an empty jar of facial moisturizer, washed-and-dried, is filled with pennies, and sits on desk, as a paperweight.


A casual-bouquet of silk flowers shoots up from a former jar-of-preserves, and another jelly-jar is now a beverage glass.  It's octagonal -- with rounded, soft lines where the shape "turns"...


This is a container to hold paper-clips:


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and there's an olive-oil bottle sitting in the kitchen sink, brimming with dishwashing-liquid-laced water.  Mmrmfgh.


I'm not "crafty" enough, or talented enough, to think of something to do with every empty glass container.  Some of them (most of them) I have to toss.

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