To cuyahogarvr in Cleveland

[bjarvis]

Honey, where do we keep the chicken broth?

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[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

good lord, he's been living there less than a month and already you've given over the larder inventory and storage to him AND (this is the time-sensitive part) you've forgotten your previous knowledge?

the solution to this is either (a) not to allow cuyahogarvr to leave again (which sounds a bit Rapunzel-esque), or (b) to buy more chicken broth.

[jss]

Most people tend to store unopened containers of chicken broth in the pantry or kitchen cupboard.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

brian's gone all helpless on us.

striking resemblance to the stereotype of a married hetero male, who suddenly can't find his own socks once there's a spousal unit to do the laundry.

[jss]

Even so, it's not like there's an unlimited amount of storage for unopened groceries. Heavens forfend he look.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Render unto me a collective break: we found the case of chicken broth on the floor south of the microwave card. And I've only just discovered that apparently we now have a *second* pantry downstairs beside the freezer. There's still a bin of dry goods we brought back from the trailer when the camping season ended.

And people wonder why I so seldom delegate tasks...

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I so seldom delegate tasks...

because you're a control freak?

because you've never ever misplaced mundane things like chicken broth yourself?

because you're still in Kirkland Lake Lonely Log Cabin mode and so the idea of more than one place to store food is unthinkable?

You know, if you had put on your santa hat Thinking Cap, I'm SURE you would have found it faster.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

but there IS, there IS oodles of room. remember, they rented a storage locker to prepare for the arrival of cuyahogarvr and "all his junk priceless family heirlooms", I think the description was.

do you spoze that the chicken broth went to the storage rentalocker?

Down Here It's Kroger, or Grand Union, or Publix, or...

[atldaddybear.livejournal.com]

Well, there are these Magical Places in the U.S. called "grocery stores" where one can obtain all sorts of Wondrous Goodies, as well. I b'lieve I even remember seeing some of them when hangnaildhole and I were in your Canajun environs last summer for our nuptials...

Re: Down Here It's Kroger, or Grand Union, or Publix, or...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

We knew there was a freakin' case of the stuff around here somewhere... next time I'll tag it with a GPS tracker.

Re: Down Here It's Kroger, or Grand Union, or Publix, or...

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I think that's called over-technologising.

I'm reminded of a how-to-use-your-computer manual, waaay back in the days of 5.25" floppies that really WERE floppy, back in the days of DOS and the A:> prompt, back when you had to load any wordprocessor you might have before you could use it. The manual gave a step-by-step example of writing a grocery list (seen, no doubt, in glorious green-and-grey dot matrix letters on one's CRT monitor) that you could then use a PRINT command to send the text file to the dot-matrix printer. (and you probably lost a pinfeed fanfold sheet of paper both before and after the printed paper by the time you got it out of the printer, too)

I'm not sure how many people used their $6500 XTs to write grocery lists in text files when the time-honoured method of ballpoint or pencil on the back of an envelope worked so much more easily.

the best way - as you found today - to find misplaced groceries is to walk around and look for them with your eyes.

Either that, or never let Rapunzel go away again, for fear of losing control of the inventory.

[squalidbear.livejournal.com]

Bottom cupboard on the right, with the pasta sauce and baking ingredients.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Checked that area of the pantry and the kitchen cabinets. And I discovered we have two separate stashes of pasta sauce... we're good for most of 2008.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Meat is murder. You might want to think about using veggie broth.

Brought to you by your friendly Vegetarian Lesbian Terr0rist.

;-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I cry whenever I think of those helpless vegetables, killed in their prime to make veggie broth. They never had a chance to fight back, poor dears.

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

~snerk~

[apparentparadox]

That's why cell phones were invented.

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

... as opposed to putting a query up on the web in writing where all your friends can laugh and point.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

...once your remaining husband is done doing so.

[atldaddybear.livejournal.com]

... never mind the concept of "email".

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I called but his cell phone was off.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

Let's see..... storage units.... Let me count the ways.........
In the kitchen - refrigerator with freezer, walk in pantry, antique storage cabinet
Basement - another refrigeator with a freezer, a brimming chest-freezer and a metal storage cabinet.
Yep, we're set for the next decade or so.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

You need demarkation - it is an essential in an efficient household. The Victorians knew a thing or two about closets. Organization that is, not hiding in. They always had walk-in pantries and hideaway areas (usually for priests I think, but they could be used for chicken broth). The mistress kept the key - I'm sure no Victorian man knew all his wife's hiding places. And they didn't even shop at Sam's Club.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

usually for priests I think, but they could be used for chicken broth

I always knew they were good for something!

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

suddenly envisioning "whereisthechickenbroth.threebearsinva.com"

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's just what the Internet needs.

PS. We're actually in Maryland so we'll make it threebearsinmd.com. :-)

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I have now annoyed the entire library because I cannot stop laughing.

You guys are soooo married...

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great to have so many helpful friends!
</gush>

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously.

Just shoot me. Please.