Pimpin' out the Pantry

My first project of the summer was to organize my pantry.  It is the only closet in the entire downstairs of my house, so I wanted to try to make it so that I can cram even more crap in there a more functional space!  I was so eager to get started that I took absolutely no "before pictures", and just started throwing everything from the pantry into a box and all over my kitchen counters.  I then Googled, measured, and carefully created a list of the organizational items I would need to purchase.  I decided to try to brave Ikea just one more time (the last time I walked in there my mind went blank, I was overwhelmed by the size and amount of stuff in the place, and I took a lindenberry drink and hightailed it out of there!)  

Well, when I got to Ikea yesterday, I realized I had left my list at home and was shocked to find that Smaland would only watch my kid for 45 minutes.  45 minutes!!!  

So, I dragged my poor friend through the store at a break-neck pace and stuffed our bags full of everything organizational I could find.  We had only gotten through about half of the store when I had to run back to the Smaland to beg for more time.  They gave me another half hour.  Have you seen this store???  It practically took me a half hour just to get back to where I left off!  

So, I figured out where we left off and continued running through the store grabbing stuff left and right, and next thing I know, the Smaland buzzer goes off.  Surely this must be a mistake, I thought, I have 16 and a half more minutes left- so I ignore the buzzer.  A few more minutes go by and they PAGE me over the LOUDSPEAKER!  Well, I started to panic a little as I run back through the maze to see what the deal is, and when I got back to Smaland, my daughter told me that she had them call me because she was bored and needed some meatballs to eat!  Yeah, me too kid, me too!

grocery shopping on the OTHER side of town

I always do my grocery shopping at the the same store.  It is quiet, clean, and they carry just about every item I use in my house.  They bag my groceries in paper bags, (I can never remember those darn cloth things, but I know that plastic bags are evil!) and they walk them out and load them in my car for me.  They give a free cookie to your kid, and I don't think the prices are too high.  Today, I just needed one thing, so I decided to run into another store in a different area of town to get ground beef and corn.  Well, it was not quiet and I felt dirty just walking in.  I headed to the back of the store for the ground beef, and the only kind they had was 80/20.  Eww, that is the kind that surprises you when you bite into it with little hard bits, plus it is more fattening.  Since the ground beef was a bust, I looked at the ground turkey.  They only had 80/20 in that too.  At this point it was getting late and I was becoming hungry, so I grabbed the turkey.  Then I found some corn for like a dollar an ear!  I was disappointed that the people who shop on the OTHER side of town don't have better choices.  They can come over to my store anytime!