I have a lot of "homesteading" kind of stuff (though, most of it is inherited from my mom & I just consider it "housewifing" stuff.
The canning equipment, which I use every day starting from about now through September; the dehydrator, about 2 months a year; the jars & tongs & things that go with the canner. The pickle crock, used this week for pickles and not again for about 3 years, but full of sauerkraut most of the winter.
I just wish someone would make local, low-sugar, low-salt versions of the stuff I put up, so I could just buy it. But it seems like to make money with local canned/frozen goods they have to be either convenience foods like readymade soups, or fancied up with weird ingredients. And my friends keep taking up canning and making a big batch of jam and then giving it up, so my dreams of "I'll do tomatos, you do pears" are never going to come true. (We'll see. I'm supposed to do a skillshare with a friend of a friend who lives around the corner this year.)
But I have plenty of just-for-fun unitaskers, and I feel like Nina - I have room, they make me happy, and I use them. Therefore they are not clutter. I have a giant tub of cookie cutters, from tricky once-every-few-years-project heirloom bakelite my great-grandmother bought in the '20s to thrift store plastic alphabet cutters that the kids use with play-do. I have a sodastream and a cherry pitter and I would replace them if they were broken or destroyed, because they make my life better.
