I put it off forever, but I finally cleaned out the pantry...

You saw it.  Since I've lived here, I get uptight every time Dave seems to clunker around the kitchen when he can't find things that I rearranged.  The problem is, we have more stuff now, but the same amount of space as before, so obviously, things need to be more efficient.  There is no longer room for Dave to have a drawer with measuring cups laid out in a row in order of increasing size.

 The pantry was somewhat of a nightmare.  Neither of us really knew what was in there because nothing was easily accessible.  I finally gathered up the courage to unload it, and this is what happened.

I left our dining room table covered in stuff for 5 or 6 days, and Dave never said a word.  Thanks, honey.  I found a few interesting things in the pantry, including two cans of olives that seemed to vibrate when I picked them up (I swear, I wouldn't make that up.  Olive cans are nasty).  I also found this:

Whoops, I can't turn it.  Anyway, he has a 60-pack of Swiss Miss hot chocolate packets.  And don't be fooled: we also have at least 3 other varieties of hot chocolate at our house.  I also found this: 

That's about 14 pounds of sugar.  I bought a 4-lb bag, then a week later, due to our disorganized pantry, Dave never saw it and put sugar on the grocery list again.  I thought that he must be using waaaay too much sugar to already have run out, but didn't want to run into this problem again, so I bought a 10-lb bag!  Needless to say, we better be good on the sweeteners for months (or years) to come.

This was my favorite discovery in the pantry:

These were awesome.  If you can't read the little gold circle is says: Plastic UNBREAKABLE bottles.  When Dave got home I said, "Look what I found!" and slammed it into the counter really hard.  He totally fell for it and jumped up thinking it would shatter everywhere.  He claims he bought these for cooking, but I can never be sure...   Sweet kid.

There was definitely one good thing that came out of this pantry cleaning frenzy:

We had enough stuff to make chex mix. 

Blog you later.