on clearing out the freezer

[fred_mouse]

 This is a belated post, covering last weekend, and mid-week.

It occurred to me that one of the areas I don't clear out regularly enough is the freezer (both the little one inside, and the free standing one in the garage). So, last weekend, I did a pass through the small freezer, and identified a handful of things that need using up in the little one. Ends of loaves (which the kids *claim* they eat) went in the chooks. Other than that, there were 3 (now 2) containers of cooking bananas, and 3 (now 2) containers of guava. I've made one batch of guava paste (like jam, but only a little water and sugar, so it doesn't gel, but it does spread nicely), and one batch of fried banana. Next set of tasks on this are to make another batch of guava paste, which should get through the rest, make more fried banana, and then start moving things that need using up to the inside freezer. 

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[hooloovoo_42]

I found that the catalyst for clearing out the freezer was a power outage the night before going on holiday. I chucked a load of stuff, gave some to the neighbours and managed to get them to store a few things while I was away. Since I came back, I've restocked, but mostly with things that are less likely [1] to get forgotten about.

[1] I'll revisit that statement in 6 months!

[fred_mouse]

I worked out that the big problem is that I don't park the car in the garage any more (because I'm using it for storage), so I don't go past the freezer every day. Which ups the 'get the @#&(^*&^ garage sorted' further up the to do list. *sigh*. Big case of the 'don' wanna's'.

[hooloovoo_42]

When Pa refitted our kitchen, he put the old units in the garage. The idea was that he was going to put up the wall units in our bedrooms for extra storage and put the base units around the back wall of the garage. Instead, he dumped a load of oily car bits all over them. So they never moved from where he dumped them, in the middle of the garage. For the next 20 odd years, negotiating the garage was difficult, we could never find what we wanted, and the car had to live out in the cold!

When my parents finally sold up and moved in 2000, after 40 years in the house, clearing the garage took longer than clearing the house - much to the dismay of both removal guys and the people who were trying to move in.

[fred_mouse]

Aiii.

I'm trying really hard to not be that parent! And I really want the garage back for summer, so the car isn't stinking hot when we get in it of an afternoon.