Things I found in the deep freezer today as I cleaned it:

[conuly]

1. Loose fish sticks or maybe breakfast sausages
2. Shopping bags, plastic
3. Cold hard cash (63¢)
4. Three garbage bags worth of food from 2010 - 2013
5. Several containers of lunches I'd packed for my mother
6. Cold folding cash ($1)
7. A pen light all the way at the bottom that still worked
8. Soup
9. Lots of ground meat
10. THE BOTTOM OF THE FREEZER!!!!

My mother and I are going to have some serious talks on the subject of "the freezer is not a garbage can for all those things we don't want to deal with".

Of course, I was supposed to be cleaning her fridge, but whatevs. (No comments from the peanut gallery, Jenn.)

Dropped some of the aforementioned ground beef in the tiny space between the freezer and the steps, spent 20 minutes hauling it out. Had to use pruning shears to grab hold of it!

(Trying out this conflict and migrant lj-cut idea. I do not promise anything. Obviously if something big happens, like ISIS gets hold of the bomb and nukes the hell out of North Korea, I'm going to put that outside a cut. Because, you know, that's going to be our big concern, where I stick the articles.)

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Comments

[luscious_purple]

Yay for the bottom of the freezer!

In my refrigerator I recently found a jar of L.L. Bean blueberries that I think I purchased in 1997. It's still sealed, but....

[conuly]

I decided to keep the ground beef, which is all in vacuum sealed packaging, but ditch most nearly everything else.

Now I just need to use it all up, and fast.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

this conflict and migrant lj-cut idea

Thanks. But those are not the only depressing things I wish were under the cut.