It's been a few days since my last post. We are now towards the end of the MLK weekend. My personal goal was to purge and organize during this time since we have a rare weekend (plus an extra day) of nothing going on. I was pretty surprised about that but decided to take advantage of it.
The good news is that I got a lot done. The bad news, to the naked eye, it looks pretty much the same. Hmph! I FINALLY got the old ice skates that we've outgrown on Craigslist. So far no nibbles. Plus, I went through a particularly nasty corner in my son's room and it looks a little better.
I also cleaned (I cannot believe how dirty it got) and organized my pantry. It was four shelves of a messiness and disorganization with a smidgen of filth. Kind of my life and my home, though I'm working through it. LOL. I was shocked to find I still had tons of powdered and granulated sugar left over from 2013's Black Friday. The kids and family out did themselves and conquered the supermarket of all their sugars--at my request. Sugar doesn't go bad, so as long as there are no bugs, is all good. (Ironically, I'm trying to cut down on processed sugars, but for birthday cakes and such, only the real thing will do.) I found I also had lots of flours--cake, bread, white whole wheat, whole wheat, and all purpose. I had some flour already and recently bought much more since I do bread baking and go through it. Marc's in Ohio has the best prices on specialty flours. It's a fraction of the price of stores in NY or NJ. I'm going to put some of them in the freezer before they get bugs. So, when we went to visit relatives over New Year's, I stocked up.
Oh, I also found a bunch of ancient Jellos so the kiddos wanted to make some. I even re-purposed the cups from their fruit cups. Check out the price on the picture of what the Jello cost. You won't believe it. Yup, you saw correctly, ten cents!! One thing I did, in addition to cleaning out the mess, I put down refrigerator liners (which I also use in the fridge). It really makes clean up so much easier. For about $1.50 for two liners, it's well worth it.
I also made sushi last night, at the request of my husband. It's time consuming to do, but fun to make and a HUGE cost savings over the restaurant version. Typically, I make the sushi rice ahead of time, then freeze it. I suppose a sushi master chef would cringe, but I ain't no sushi master and no one seems to mind or notice. I'm out of the sushi rice and had to use the brown rice (I think it may have been brown basmati). No, it's not traditional, but I did include the sushi vinegar mix, then blended it with the real stuff. I learned how to make sushi rice from my favorite show, Deals, a book/set I got from Housing Works, and a bunch of youtube videos.
Several other things were tackled like scrubbing a gross area by the fridge, putting away all the laundry, and other small triumphs.
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