100 days of Goobyes: Day 64: Kitchn Cure day 5

[parasitegirl]

Easy-peasy.

Day 5: Friday, October 4
Assignment: Restock Ingredients

You mean there were people who were tossing way-out-of-date spices and such in the pantry clean who weren't immediately making a list of which items needed to be replaced pronto? That night I was picking up containers at the 100 yen shop and ordering baggies of spice. I'm not one of The Kitchn people who is doing this because I want to encourage myself to cook more. I'm doing this because I do cook to a degree where very few things can be out-of-stock for long...and because the dark days are coming.

I did restock my brown sugar.

Let's celebrate the ease of this assignment with Miss. Platinum:

The Kitchn does give an option for those who don't want to spend a good deal:

The Buy Nothing Path: If you feel well-stocked already, or simply don't want to spend any money, use this time to think about how you want to cook going forward. What kinds of dishes do you like? Can you rearrange your cupboards very mindfully, making sure that the ingredients you use most are most accessible? Make a list of dream ingredients and add one each week to your shopping list, then it won't seem like extra spending.

This is already what I do. Except the dream ingredients. I don't dream it. I buy it, cook it, eat it.

(Pinkmaning) Nailed it, bitch!

I am looking forward to having my step-stool back. It's almost all spray painted, sanded, sprayed again...and after a few more spritzes it will be ready to be re-assembled.

I am still going to count this as a decluttering day, because I did freecycle a few things away.

Comments

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about doing this but I cannot imagine having 2 hours to devote to the big cleaning tasks.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

huh, I looked at past cures at it looks like they've really frontloaded the cleaning this time. Two days for decluttering/cleaning out and then one day for deep cleaning seemed completely insane to me, and you know, I don't think I'm wrong.

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

You're not wrong.

They front loaded and those tasks REALLY should have been broken down to smaller bites. There are a lot of miffed The Kitchn readers in the comments...not enough to offset the smug bastards.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest this would work for a single childless person whose major social outlet is the internet, and that's probably a huge number of their readers. Some people do really well with a concentrated organized burst of cleaning. But if you've got kids, a partner, or anything going on outside the house (like uh running a dance studio) then no, you're not going to be able to do this and also sleep that week.