Avoidance Got My Fridge Clean

Posted by Cynical Sarah on March 9, 2010

I was lacking in inspiration for things to do or for things to possibly write about on Monday, so I settled on reading from a textbook that I’ll be getting to know over the next few weeks for a project management course I’m taking.

The class starts Thursday – I made it to Page 4 of the book before I was inspired to do anything but read that thing.

This was also after some mindless TV watching, so I put Mamma Mia! in the DVD player so I could sing along while I figured out some housework to do. Housework actually translates to making peanut butter puffed wheat bars first, then cleaning up the kitchen.

After loading the dishwasher and hand washing a few leftover dishes, I could have gone back to reading my textbook. One glance at it sitting on the ottoman, however, made my brain decide it was time to clean out the fridge.

Who could have guessed that thoroughly cleaning out a fridge is more than just a 30 minute job? Ok, maybe it is a quick job for someone who regularly cleans stuff. I’ve been living here for almost five years, and we’ve never cleaned the thing out. I feel safe in saying that Helper Troy probably didn’t clean it when he moved in before filling it with stuff either.

A couple hours later, I’ve managed to remove everything, take out all the shelves and drawers, wash them, wash the inside of the fridge, dry everything and put it all back in. It looks amazingly clean … as long as you don’t take the bottom drawers and shelf out and see the part that was absolutely impossible to chip or dissolve out of the bottom.

Ew, I know.

Double “ew” if tell you how old some of the stuff was in there that got thrown out. Some sauces and jars of stuff were dated back to 2008. There was also a small container of unidentifiable hairy green stuff that I’m not sure how long was in there.

By the time all this was done, it was time to make dinner, which made my earlier cleaning of the kitchen seem like a pointless endeavor. It’ll be on my list of things to do again today. But at least the fridge is still clean!

My other time-killing, avoidance-of-the-boring-book plan for the evening was to finally finish up the laundry and actually get it all put away. There were baskets of clean clothes in our bedroom that had been there for perhaps more than a month.

Again, folding and hanging and putting away took a lot longer than I expected. But at least I figured out that underpants gnomes haven’t been stealing my underthings.

Accomplishing those two things at least made me feel like I “did” something on Monday. It also prompted me to make a mental list of lots of other things I could do this week. It’s a secret, internal list, though, so if I don’t do anything, nobody but me knows that fact.

At least I can mark three things off that list from yesterday:

1. Clean the fridge.
2. Put laundry away.
3. Get gnome traps.

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