This morning, following on the heels of helping one of my roommates pack all her stuff in a Budget Truck, my other roommate and I took on the task of cleaning our fridge. With four people sharing a kind of small fridge, it tends to get overcrowded with condiments, salad dressings, and other things you only need/use once. And at one point, some hot fudge got spilled and ran down under the bottom drawers and created a nice little hard pool. So we went through all the old condiments and salad dressing and threw out anything that was past expiration. We threw out things that we were pretty sure belonged to girls who had lived here three roommates ago. We took out all the shelves and cleaned them with hot soapy water.
Winter is the perfect time to clean out the fridge, as our garage is so cold that all our perishables sat out there for a few hours without perishing. When the fridge was cleaned and everything put back in, it looked like a brand-new fridge! Ah, the joys of being productive.
Not wanting to lose momentum, I found the energy to clean the long-overdue bathroom, sweep the floor and stairs, and take out the trash. Tomorrow we hope to rearrange the spare bedroom downstairs to make it more conducive to watching movies and hanging out.
All in all it was a productive day, cleaning, ordering school books, playing Wii. And it felt good.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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2 comments:
Good for you!
I am silently laughing because I totally remember those days of an overstuffed fridge & cleaning with roomies (which weren't all that long ago). In the last Sugarhouse home I lived in with roommates (on Parleys Canyon), we came up with a magical system. We took turns each weekend doing deep cleaning in the common areas (living room, kitchen, floors). If someone was out of town they had to switch with another roommate. It was awesome because our house was always clean and we only had to deep clean individually once a month.
Now I have more space to clean and no one to alternate with unless your cousin decides to pitch in. ;)
The really great thing is now it's only my hair (instead of 3 other girls') that I have to cut out of the bottom of the vacuum cleaner so it actually works!
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