My pantry.
I was compelled tonight to choose something a little more time-intense than the projects I've been doing lately. And I almost wussed out because of it. But I digress. The pin I chose was this one from the fabulous blog Iowa Girl Eats. I'd never been to this blog before but oh what a find. I see many days of procrastinating in my future. Me? Digressing again.
My pantry was a total disaster, stuff shoved in any old way, bags without clips, expired and stale foodstuff. I hate throwing away food. HATE IT. You might as well take a ten dollar bill out and burn it. But I always seem to let my pantry and fridge get to the state of being so cluttered I don't know what's there, leading to me tossing money aka wasted food in the trash.
I need to put together a meal plan and go grocery shopping this weekend, so I figured, what better way to prepare than to "shop" my own pantry first and take stock of what I already found. Those potatoes you see? They were hiding on the shelf below. An insane assortment of grains was shoved in willy nilly. And two jars of pickled beets. Because, you know, a girl needs pickled beets.
I made a nice orderly list of what I have and what I need using the awesome pin for ideas, and then went to put my son down for the night, as his attempts to do it on his own were failing miserably. As it turned out, my attempts failed miserably too. An hour later, I was cranky, he was goofy as ever, and hubby took over with the boy so I could return to my project.
Except I didn't feel like it. It was 10 to 10, I'm running on sleep fumes from the week as it is, and I opened my freezer to this:
I wanted to run back to bed and say F it. But then I realized I was only on day nine. I'm continually amazed at my ability to justify anything. It's a little scary, really. In the end I buckled down and was done with fridge and freezer by 10:10.
And I discovered I have A LOT of condiments.
I also discovered that these projects aren't nearly as difficult, costly or time consuming as I'd imagined. Quite the opposite. It's just the committing to doing things - a bit at a time - that I've struggled with. But it's oh-so-satisfying to complete these little jobs. More so even than doing massive weekend long cleaning binges. Those just leave me exhausted and crabby. These little projects are much more manageable, but feel just as good to complete as the big stuff. Ah, life.
Up next? My spice cabinet, lol:
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