How many vases do you need?

Yep. Head vases.

My friend Tina always has flowers in her home, so she needs a vase or two or maybe even three. I, on the other hand, am too cheap to buy flowers although I have to admit they do add a sense of luxury and glamour, not to mention color, to a room and I have decided to follow Tina's example and start buying flowers each week. Although I refuse to spend more than $7 tops. No need to be extravagant. We'll see how it goes.

But back to you. Now, if you entertain a lot and really do use 18 vases at a time, then have at it if you have the storage. But most of us probably don't need more than one, maybe two vases at a time and if you fit in that category then that's how many you should keep. One or two. Depending on your flower predilection (had to look up the spelling on that one), maybe keep one for smaller bunches and one for medium bunches. I myself have one vase, which I found at MOMA and was smitten as soon as I saw it because it folds up when not in use and how cool and sensible it that? 

If you want to pare down even more, use tall drinking glasses or canning jars or anything really instead of having a separate "vase" because using the same item item for multiple functions is the height of uncluttered living.  And we all aspire to the heights, right?

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