It’s hard to leave a place where you’ve established roots. A place where you know the good local restaurants. Where you’ve bought a home and where you’ve made lifelong friends.
It wasn’t an easy decision to empty our house, put it on the market, and leave. It was sad and awkward to say goodbye to friends who are like family. Fortunately, we have the beloved Internet, so we’ll always keep in touch.
However, the real tragedy is those we’ll never see again. I can’t help but give them a little chest pound whenever I see the name BOGO. Yes, I’m talking about the food I had to throw away when we moved.
If you’ve ever been in a rush to move out of a place, then you know this pain. All the boxes are packed, and you’re desperately clearing out the kitchen with no time to spare. You open the fridge and see half-eaten jars of preserves and just-opened spaghetti sauce. (sniff)
They never really had a chance. We had to eat at home to the last day because we couldn’t afford to eat out for a whole week. So that meant opening the food we had and buying little bits of food from the store when we had to. There’s nothing we could’ve done. We gave our friends all the food that we could, but even I would feel bad handing them an open Moose Tracks Fro-yo.
Yes, a perfectly-planned eating schedule would have prevented this wasteful loss, but who but Jesus is perfect? And I hazard to say that maybe 1 or 2 pieces of bread or fish might’ve been thrown away with all of the miraculous feasts and catches. (God forgive me)
I REALLY dislike wasting food, so this hurt. To ease the pain, I made a tribute to those foods that never got their chance to truly shine. You might need a tissue…
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You couldn’t pack the parmesan and the country time?!?
I laughed out loud at your song choice.
Looking back, perhaps. I was all out of sorts by that time.
Ha! Perfect song choice.
When our friends moved to Minnesota this summer, they brought two huge boxes of food in various levels of use to our house. I don’t think they would have given us opened spaghetti sauce, but I do have some cider vinegar in my pantry that was opened already.
Funny thing is – I won’t use it either, but there it is, in my pantry.
Ooh, I would have taken that coffee! It does feel really horrible to throw perfectly good food out, doesn’t it? Thanks for the tear-jerking tribute. The song was lovely.
Missing you guys this Monday night for Cool Chat. Hope to catch you next time. Have a great week!
I agree with Amy… the song choice was quite amusing. Wasn’t that your “senior song” forever ago?
We miss you guys… and this video reminded me why. Hope all is well in NYC.
You are crazy funny awesome loved.
This is a sentence on your fridge from those little make your own sentence magnet packs that I left (in my mind).
You sir, are a genius. LOL. The song, the food, the video-one of the funniest posts ever.
pq – cidar vinegar should impress friends, though. it’s worth the pantry space.
brenda – we would’ve sent you the coffee…
elizabeth – i think our senior song was a Pink Floyd one. how i wish it would’ve been BoyzIIMen
brad – wow… thanks!
er – thanks! i wish i just had a camera on at all times a la Truman Show