You may ask yourself, "How did this get here?"

[cjsmith]

I just cleared out the fridge. It was appalling.

I'm one of those people whose refrigerators are ruled by guilt. I throw a party and carefully store the remaining third of a bottle of ranch dressing that didn't fit on the veggies plate, because pitching it would be wasteful. I take a failed cooking experiment and put it into Tupperware anyway, guilting myself into believing I will someday be hungry enough to eat it.

Then I open the fridge and see all this stuff I don't want to eat. Reminder! My Cooking Sucks! Reminder! Eat This Before It Develops A New Civilization! Gee, that's appetizing. Maybe it's time for a run to the grocery store, to get something I do want to eat? But the fridge is full...

Gone now. All gone.

At that, it isn't even a complete sweep. We still own soft drinks, which is ludicrous given that neither of us has touched that sort of stuff in years. We still own six distinct and separate jars of mustard. But anything we would neither eat nor give to someone else is history.

I'm surprised at how good it feels to look in there now.

Comments

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate pudding? Does anyone want this last chocolate pudding? I have just one chocolate pudding left. It's only pulled away from the side of the dish about three inches all the way around. And there's a huge fault running through the center of the pudding. Actually, it's nothing but a ball of skin at this point. Does anyone want a ball of fault ridden chocolate pudding skin? I'm only going to throw it away."

Next best line
"Here, Bob. Eat this before I give it to an animal.


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http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=295

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that one!

When you first put them away, you feel really intelligent- "I'm saving food!" And then, after a month, when hair is growing out of them and you throw them away you feel...really intelligent- "I'm saving my life!"

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

Ah, you got to it before I could. This was exactly the line echoing in my head while I read your post.