Keeping Kitniyos

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 2:43 pm Post subject: keeping Kitniyos

This is for those that don't eat kitniyos on pesach-
Do you try to finish up your kitniyos before pesach? Do you lock it up? If not, do you check it for chometz three times before pesach to ensure there is no chometz accidentally in it?

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 2:51 pm Post subject:

There is NO issur of owning kitniot during Pesach.

I put it in a place it won't be accidentally eaten and that's it (ie: fridge stuff goes in one drawer and it gets taped closed. Food either goes in the room we sell or in a cabinet we tape closed).
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Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: keeping Kitniyos

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 4:18 pm Post subject: re: keeping Kitniyos

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Welcome to Seraph's kitchen.
All but one of these (the one filled with oats) have kitniyos in it, and have never had anything but kitniyos in them. Storing all these and the containers, putting them away for pesach and selling them, will definitely be time consuming and space consuming that I'm not too sure I have.
If you had what I had, would you find a way anyhow to lock it up, or leave it out?

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 4:33 pm Post subject:

Lock it up doesn't mean locking with a key. You can just tape paper/ a sheet etc over the shelves, and stick on a notice 'machur l'gentile'.

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 4:36 pm Post subject: re: keeping Kitniyos

And apropos that, I was in a store that had these cute little stickers that said "machur legoy" and "besari" and "chalavi" and asked what they cost and they told me EIGHT SHEKEL.

I told them I can write it for free on paper at home.
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Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 4:41 pm Post subject:

Posted: Sat, Mar 21 2009, 5:03 pm Post subject: re: keeping Kitniyos

we have open shelving like that in our garage and cover them with paper.

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I try to finish everything, chomets or not, just because I have small kitchen and little storage space. To have room in the kitchen for my Pesach goods, I have to empty the shelves by packing up the contents of the cabinets. Not that using up kitniyos helps me, b/c an empty jar that used to contain chic peas takes up just as much space as a jar full of chic peas! We're bravely eating canned goods as fast as we can to minimize the packing-and-moving, but most of what's in the cabinets is containers, pots and pans and dishes, not food.

The horrible truth is I have too much stuff!

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