5 Signs It’s Time to Get Rid of a Cookbook — Organizing Tips from The Kitchn

Like most books, cookbooks are hard to part with. They can carry the sentimental weight of recipes you've loved, or dreams of the sort of cook you hoped to become, or the disappointment of diets failed, or meals that turned disastrous. But the reality is that most of us have only so much storage space for cookbooks, and at some point you may have to pare down.

The key is to assess where you are now, where that cookbook fits into your life, and whether it's worth holding on to or if you'd be better off clearing the space (physical and mental) for something else. Here are five signs it's time to get rid of a cookbook.

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