New Kitchen and a few too many spice jars!

Ben and I are very excited about our new kitchen in our new apartment. Not only is the kitchen more up -to-date (by a good 10 years) it also is quite a bit larger. As Ben describes it, we have a two person or more kitchen! Those of you that have had the "pleasure" of observing us in our old kitchens know what a huge change this is. Although I am happy to say that we successfully cooked 2 large thanksgiving dinners in Ben's 1/2 person kitchen (a miracle perhaps).
One thing both Ben and I have learned while moving into our kitchen is that WE HAVE DOUBLE OF EVERYTHING!!!!!! Since we cooked at both of our places we had 2 fully stocked kitchens. It worked at the time but now it's a bit ridiculous! Although having two full sets of pots and pans as well as silverware is wonderful when having people over for dinner! Perhaps the most shocking thing of combining cookware was how many spice jars we have accumulated over 2 years! Ben and I had been very good (perhaps too good) at buying spices in bulk from wards and then buying our own spice jars ($.50 each) to fill. When we unpacked the spices we found that we had a FULL medium sized box containing our spice jars. We decided to just combine them all. However, we quickly found that one does not need two spice racks or 4 containers of ground cumin (for example). In short not only did we have double of spices but there were a "few" things we had 3-4 jars of. To give you an idea the picture below is of some of the spices we were combining (notice Ben's spice rack to the right, I had another one the same size). Here is a picture of the empty spice jars, this is only about half of what we got rid of.
So the moral of the story, no one needs that many spices!