Sunday evening my friend and I had the elders over for dinner, then later the sisters showed up for desert. When dinner was over the elders proceeded to clean up their dishes, and then continued to wipe down my kitchen. Elder Blackburn even wrapped the leftovers and organized my refrigerator. I opened my fridge the next morning and had no idea where anything was anymore. This story that my sister posted on her blog reminded me of how embarrassing my fridge might have looked to the elders.
"I'm embarrassed to say that I had to resort to the fashion experts’ advice on cleaning out: If you haven't worn it (or eaten it) in a year, toss it. Like that mysterious bottle of BBQ sauce nobody liked from last summer? There it was, hiding behind the economy-sized jar of bread and butter pickles this whole time! Gross. Why didn't I throw that out months ago? And why did I ever think we'd go through a 72-ounce jar of bread and butter pickles?
And then there was the juice I bought for a sick child some time ago. I poured it into a mason jar to keep the other kids out of it. The disguise worked, all right. Nobody noticed that juice until this morning! Can grape juice curdle?
The tail ends of unpopular salad dressings, the weird tiny jar of hot mustard that came in a gift basket last Christmas, the two packets of spiced brown sugar glaze from last year's honey baked ham I'd been saving — all gone. I don't know how long salad dressing is supposed to keep in the fridge, but I let this question be my guide: Is this worth throwing up over? The answer was invariably, no.
Then of course, I tossed the perishables whose expiration dates got torn off with last month's calendar page. The homemade dip nobody liked. The celery that went limp. Those last few grapes that made it look like I was trying to cure my own raisins. All gone."
And then there was the juice I bought for a sick child some time ago. I poured it into a mason jar to keep the other kids out of it. The disguise worked, all right. Nobody noticed that juice until this morning! Can grape juice curdle?
The tail ends of unpopular salad dressings, the weird tiny jar of hot mustard that came in a gift basket last Christmas, the two packets of spiced brown sugar glaze from last year's honey baked ham I'd been saving — all gone. I don't know how long salad dressing is supposed to keep in the fridge, but I let this question be my guide: Is this worth throwing up over? The answer was invariably, no.
Then of course, I tossed the perishables whose expiration dates got torn off with last month's calendar page. The homemade dip nobody liked. The celery that went limp. Those last few grapes that made it look like I was trying to cure my own raisins. All gone."
To which "my friend" were you referring? Because you actually had two there, unless I can be the "fly on the wall"
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