October 9, 2012

Tip – Clean Out Your Fridge

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Here’s a simple tip about cleaning.

I decided to clean out the fridge today. I got as far as the bottom vegetable drawer.

I was going to post pictures of what I found but I think doing so would violate the Geneva convention.

The fact that these bits of organic matter were at one time vegetables is a scientific improbability that would baffle Stephen Hawking. The transformations were astonishing. Some items I could identify – half of a tomato trapped forever in a plastic bag, now dotted with a strange white substance that may or may not be a new form of life. One bag, unfortunately unsealed, was filled with a group of greenish foodstuffs that seemed to have fused together like a group of amoebas, or frat brothers passed out after finishing their fourth keg.

One by one I removed the offending objects. One of them, I think the fused whatevers, had left behind the gift of a clear filmy liquid.

Because of time constraints, I was unable to tackle the task of de-crudifying the drawer. Were I a better scientist (note: I am not now, nor have I ever been a scientist) I would save a sample of this substance, this mysterious organic matter. I could discover a new element. Fridgedrawercrudium.

But this is moot. I will do what must be done. I will don the apron of cleaning (note: I do not own an apron) and scrub the fridge clean of any trace of crud. Because if experience has taught us anything, it is that part our job as parents is to clean up life’s little messes. Even when those messes aren’t so little. And may in fact be alive.

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