So, I went looking for the large, tupperware cooking bool we use for that
purpose. I could not find it. Not finding items required for cooking, dining,
and storing food is a terribly common occurrence in our kitchen.
And I knew the culprint: my oldest son, Trey.
I went up to his room, intending to find the needed bowl. What I found was
so disturbing that I abandoned the cobbler and embarked on a mission to get
all of the kitchen-oriented items in his room back to the kitchen and
cleaned. What did I find?
In addition to the listing, below, I also found (and kept) $40 in Trey’s room.
Believe me, this is not the best way to make $40.
This ordeal startedd at 8:30, last night. Before I went to bed, I had
spent 4½ hours toting, soaking, pre-cleaning, dishwashing, and putting
away dishes.
Today, I’ve done another 5 hours, so far.
Below, we have an image of about ½ of the dishes that had to be
pre-cleaned because they had spoiled food clinging to them. The other
½ was cleaned either last night or this morning. Ugh.
After pre-cleaning them, I run the dishes through the dishwasher on the
sanitize cycle.
The last items to be pre-washed are shown in the sink.
I am a sincere proponent of cleared counters. In pursuit of that, since
all of the dishes had been pre-rinsed, I put most of them remaining dishes
to be hand-or-machine washed into the sink. That also provides an idea
of how extensive a mess was in Trey’s room. The shown dishes are about
¼ of the dishes processed in the last 18 hours.
Many of our various sets of actual glasses (made of glass) have been
broken by our children. Such as we have as well as almost all of the
others are going into the washing machine.
Many of these had to be pre-soaked and pre-cleaned because of the rotting
food clinging to them. So it goes. .
I was horribly mistaken when I commented on a picture with cups, above.
When I got to loading the dishwashder with a later load, I found many
more cups in the sink. So it goes.