I have a container problem.
My space isn't big enough to store all my plastic food containers. The cupboard ends up a jumbled mess of mismatched containers and lids. It's a huge hassle for me. It wastes my time and stresses me out.
So I pulled everything out of the cupboard and put it in this bin. As I use a container and lid, I attach them before putting them away. It's an inefficient way to store, but it's the only way I can keep them together.
At some point I'll get to the containers with no lids, and lids with no containers, and I will throw them out. I used to keep them in yet another cupboard, awaiting the day the missing part would catch up. But it is futile. As futile as packing a duffle bag of unmatched socks into a moving van in Oregon in the hope that the socks were somehow waiting for me in Pennsylvania, like family members gone on ahead.
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4 comments:
OH yeah, I hear you on this one. Right now, most of my containers are full of freezer jam and chili - in the freezer.
I threw away the oddballs this summer (it felt like Cinderella and the shoe trying to match up the lids) so now, I need to buy more when I'm at the store - I keep forgetting.
I have a huge pot of apple sauce to freeze though, so I need to remember today at the store!
-Christine
Oh, yeah I hear you! And the whole keeping them until the other one shows up, heheh. I just buy cheap ones-no kidding myself with buying nice containers-and then I don't feel so bad when I throw them out. Or use the Nancy's yogurt ones.
I keep all my lids in a bin, stacked on their side like ones togather so I can easily see them. I have the containers on the shelf...I still manage to lose tops...I don't know how that happens!
That sounds like a good idea to weed them out. About once a year I try to match them up and throw out the unmatched ones. And then out of the blue the missing part shows up later.
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