Another One Hits the Deck

Well, it's been an interesting week shall we say. I don't know what's happening with things hitting the deck around here. Monday was the lasagna, yesterday was the dish soap. And oh, no, not dish soap in the plastic bottle, but dish soap in my pretty ceramic bottle that matches the colors of my kitchen and I probably can't buy anymore, bottle. The bottle I had just filled to the top. Ya, that's the one. So Monday I was using the spatula to scrap lasagna off the floor, Thursday was using the spatula to scrap a whole bottles worth of dish soap off the floor. That was fun. Thick and gummy, it was all over the top of the cupboard, dripping off the edge and down the dishwasher and forming a huge, and I mean huge, puddle on the floor.

I don't know about anyone else, but after throwing away $14 in lasagna only three days before, and staring at my lovely $15 dollar soap pump now lying in two pieces, the cheap frugal side of me rose up and I couldn't bring myself to put all that soap down the drain. I had to salvage something out of all this carnage. So what did I do? I grabbed my handy, dandy funnel and spatulaed (is that even a word?) as much as I could back into the original plastic bottle. I know, I know. Dish soap is relatively cheap. It couldn't have been more than $3. But I just couldn't do it. Sick, eh?

So the rest that I couldn't spatula, got wiped and rinsed into a sink of hot water. Which then became my motivation for clearing out my small appliance cupboard and wiping it out, and then wiping down all the fronts of the cupboards.

It all looks so nice and clean now, so I feel a bit better. My loving clean side thanks my cheap frugal side for the nudge into the spring cleaning mode. I might even organize some of the cupboards as it's Kitchen organization this month over at I'm An Organizing Junkie. Today the small appliance cupboard & cupboard fronts, tomorrow the world. Or something like that.

I just want to add that these friends made me feel a whole lot better this week with these lovely gifts and I just want to say a big thank you to them.



From Faith at Gold in the Clouds came this nice award. Thank you so much Faith. I've very blessed to have met you through this blogging world and knowing you think enough of my ramblings to present this to me means an awful lot.






And "Forever Friends" came from Barbara H. over at Stray Thoughts. Thank you Barbara. It means a lot, especially this week. I value your bloggy friendship very much!


I'll pass both of these awards over to Julie at A Joyful Life
and Katherine at Raising Five.


And btw, Julie has written a beautiful, touching story of one soldier here. Please stop by and leave an encouraging word in her comments for this young man.