| THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY! |
| Have you ever taken a $50 and run it through the trash compactor? Or put it down the drain using the garbage disposal? How about taking a handful of money and throwing it in your trash can? No? Well I have. Oh, I haven’t taken the actual cash-money and done this but listen to this tale. It is an on-going one in our household. I decide to clean the freezers out. I pull out several containers and ziplock baggies full of unidentifiable frozen food objects. I say to Alpha Hubby, “Do you have any idea what this is?” His response is always, “No. What does it look like?” *Huff* of frustration. “If I knew what it looked like, I could probably figure out what it is,” I say showing, I believe, great patience. “Well I don’t know what it is. Why don’t you thaw it out and see?” he says, wisely. So we do. We leave all these containers and baggies in the sink or on the counter. Much later we will come back to take a peek. I say to Alpha Hubby, “Do you have any idea what this is?” To which his response is always, “No. What does it look like?” MAJOR *HUFF* of frustration. “If I knew what it looked like,” I respond verrrry patiently, “then I could figure out what it is. Why don’t you taste it and see?” The brave man who used to say he had a cast iron stomach and could eat anything always replies, “I’m not eating that. We don’t even know what it is.” At this point the entire conversation spirals downhill pretty quickly. Does this sound like a merry-go-round conversation to you? Me, too. And we have it every time I decide to defrost the freezer. So all that food always ends up down the garbage disposal or sealed in the baggie and tossed out. I always think, when this happens, that I should mark the container somehow – buy those stickers or use one of my millions of Sharpie permanent markers. I never do, tho. I failed Suzy Homemaker 102, the class about organized freezing of foods. Next payday, to save myself a lot of frustration and work, I’m just going to take the grocery money and throw it on the burn pile. Article Copyright © 2008 Nan C Loyd All rights reserved. Used by permission. |
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