Good lord.. I don’t know who is responsible for cleaning the refrigerator in your home, but no doubt it is you, the primary care giver who takes this on. You go along day to day and don’t think about it. Maybe once in a while you see something and shove it to the back of the shelf or the drawer in haste, but you really don’t deal with it. Then, maybe because you are about to go grocery shopping again or maybe because you’ve just become fed up with not being able to find things, you decide to clean the thing, Allow me to share with you…this is what is currently in my icebox.
Our refrigerator revealed…..
- One heal and one piece of bread
- Two old rolls
- Two pieces of dried out pizza
- Stick of butter
- Crock butter spread
- Left over meatballs
- Sour cream
- Peas
- corn
- Old French Bread
- OJ
- Other OJ
- Iced tea pitcher with less than one inch of tea in it
- English muffins
- Pickles
- 2 Jugs of milk
- One soda bottle with maybe two swallows left
- Someone’s open glass of tea
- looks like a bowl of white chocolate chips, I don’t know why
- A Baggie with 2 pieces of French toast age undetermined
- bottle of half drunk wine…oh that’s mine!
- One of the five million sports bottles we own with who knows what in it.
- A small bottle of really old Gatorade..about two gulps worth…no, make that two small bottles of Gatorade same condition.
- About 12 bottles of salad dressing most about empty and three that are duplicates of bottles that are already open.
- A partial salad bag, can’t use that anymore!
- A few apples, a sack of grapes
- Celery…pretty limp
- A cucumber that feels a little to soft to use…but just barely
- Cheese cheese cheese….and only a couple of the various cheeses have green spots
- Wait…how old is this…..what in the heck is this…anyway?
- Mustard
- Catsup
- Mayo
- Horseradish
- Taco sauce…about 10 bottles and every heat you can possibly imagine
- Capers….why?
- Bread, two kinds skinny and regular
- One can soda open…..flat of course
- Left over something the kids didn’t like that I made for dinner
- About one and a half bits of someone’s sub sandwich
- A take out container from someone’s meal out which shall never be eaten
- Four, count them four toddler sippy cups each with a little bit of milk or a little bit of juice in them, no wonder I can’t ever find any sippy cups…
Ok…that’s the majority of items from my refrigerator inventory. I don’t know about you, but when I pull everything out at times like this, I absolutely marvel at how much that thing can hold. If I were an archaeologist trying to tell something about who this family was by looking at the contents of their refrigerator I would surmise the following:
- They were busy most all the time
- Hurry was their primary mode of operation
- They had kids
- The children were very important
- The children seemed to come and go rather abruptly
- They were involved in sports
- One of the kids was a little one
- They tried to eat right
- The mother probably worked outside of the home (convenience items)
- They really liked Mexican food…very possibly tacos regularly as part of their diet
- Someone was trying to watch their weight
- They didn’t believe in wasting anything
- From the looks of the partial meals inside the box, the older kids were only at home part of the time, the younger child was home all the time
- They probably ate in shifts
- They liked cheese…any and all cheese…
- They liked milk
- They did ok financially but tried to be thrifty
- None of them really liked cleaning out the refrigerator!
Lessons learned
- If you’re family is like ours….look inside your fridge….probably a lot like ours too! If you examine that food box, you’ll be reminded of the old saying….you are what you eat!
- I really need to teach the kids to be able to tell the difference between what’s worth saving and what’s not.
- I see how hoarders possibly get started!
- I really need to clean out the fridge more often. Yeah, it’ll be me!
Good Stepmom
