Surviving the Domestic Jungle

So yesterday I got a wild hair (as the ever so lovely saying goes) and decided to clean out my fridge. Oh my god that was a gross, toxic experience. The scary thing is I consider myself to be a pretty clean person and if you judged me by the growths in my fridge then you would say I was a very dirty person. Its amazing how many things just get shoved to the back of the shelf never to be seen again. It was pretty gross and at one point required a hazmat suit!!! Unfortunately I did not have one and had to brave the 3 month old sour cream alone. I now vow to always stay current on my fridge situation. I promise to not let things turn green and fuzzy!! Cleaning the fridge is just one of the many to dos on my list right now. I want to get everything organized and as clutter free as possible. We are about to enter fall and it is time for a big cleaning before winter comes and all I want to do is be outside!! Where I live, you come alive in the winter and hibernate in the summer. Little backwards I know and trust me I hate it. I never have a tan….EVER and I live in a warm climate! I took a trip to Boston a couple years back and made sure to fake tan so I wasn’t the whitest Texan those Northerners have ever seen! Anyway, next on the list is the pantry and the garage and my clothes and the kids clothes! I just feel like everywhere I look we are accumulating more and more stuff we don’t need. Case and point, kids toys. I swear those toys are procreating at night while I sleep! I don’t know where all these toys come from but I feel like I am drowning in them and there are kids out there who will actually play with them because my kids don’t! They play with my stuff!!!!!! If I had known how kids really are I would have given them empty boxes or my things wrapped up for Christmas and they would think that they had the best Christmas ever! They drive me crazy but they also need to learn the importance of donating to those who have less. My daughter Avery used to have break downs about giving away her clothes but I always explained that they will go to a little girl who really needs it and now when ever we go through her clothes she tells me about the kids that will get her clothes! Important life lesson! Everything I cant donate gets recycled because I am a recycling fanatic! When I cleaned out the fridge I cleaned out every carton and glass jar and recycled them. So I guess the message here is to always donate and to always recycle!!!