Friday - Home ALONE!!

You would think if I'm home alone I would find a good book to cuddle up with.
Dig out some great John Wayne Movies to watch or in the very least, take a nap!!!!!

Oh no!! That would make too much sense!!

Instead I decided to tackle 3 things. The fridge, the cabinet under the sink and
the cabinet holding ALL KINDS of plastic containers.

First of course I went swimming!!
GOOD JOB ME!!!

Bill left for work at 7:30 and it's time to get BUSY!!! I gave myself a time line. You need to be done by noon. So, I got a garbage bag and headed for the fridge.

Well, while I was getting the garbage bag from under the sink, several things fell out.
So, being ADHD, I started there first. G
BTW, we do own a fire extinguisher,you can "now" get to it under the sink!!
This is probably a limited time offer!

Then I tackled the fridge. It's any one's guess how long it's been since "EVERYTHING" has been pulled out and all the surfaces cleaned completely. I try NOT to think about it, but lets put it this way. I found dressing that expired in 2007, hopefully it was December,
but I don't honestly remember.

Now it's SPOTLESS and contains, Milk, Pop and eggs!
What else do you need? LOL

So now onto the Plastic Containers!!
You know, your good old Rubbermaid, Glad, Lock N Locks!!
I'm leaving out the cottage cheese containers, coffee container, and a multitude of others that have made themselves at home in the HUGE corner cabinet in the kitchen.

Now it is nice to have a large storage place, but it's NOT all that nice if you can't reach what you want and when the stuff you do want is cramped so far in the back that you can't get to it!
That's just down right frustrating!!
On "this old house", which is a TV show on Public Television,
they had a segment once on organizing.
They showed this AWESOME metal organizer that fit in those large corner cabinets.
This device enabled you to use that WHOLE space and get to everything easily!!
They left out the part about it being $750!!
$750 buys an awful lot of plastic containers!

So I DIVE IN!! LITERALLY!
I'm tossing plastic onto the kitchen floor.
Lids are becoming Frisbees for some one's dog
(Seeker!!)

I really do want to try to keep most of these containers.
There are times when we need them for freezing,
so I didn't want to just 'toss' them all into the recycle bin.

Alas, a BIGGER Plastic container!!
A 64 Quart Clear Lidded Tote to be more specific.
The plan is to put the 'freezer' containers neatly into this,
and keep the nicer containers for our everyday use.

Then I have this "great" idea (or it seemed so, at the time)
to rinse all these containers out before I put them away.
So, I filled tub with them.............

TWICE!

What was I thinking????
Apparently I had NO idea who many we had!

So, after rinsing, the bathroom floor is littered with plastic containers.

Let the sorting begin.
Like lids with like lids.
Like containers with like containers.

BLOOD HELL!!
Where did all these lids come from?
Apparently they are more fertile than the containers,
because the lid:container ratio is 4:1!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CONTAINERS??

I won't even tell you how many ice cream lids I had.
Actually, I would have, but they are already outside in the recycle bin. G
LUCKY ME!!!!!

So now, the corner cabinet is clean,
it has several orange Lock N Locks,
a couple clear ones and a few other "up scale" containers.
Not that margarine containers aren't up scale -
especially if they have some kind of delicious treat inside!

The fridge is clean and the cabinet under the sink is sparkling.......
too bad no one will ever see it!!!

As for the rest of the house????

Enter at your own RISK!!!!