For The Love of Stuff in the Fridge! You Already Know What To Do.

Lately, everything I write involves the fridge. Perhaps, that's a sign that my obsession with soft cheese is slowly getting out of control. Or it could be a sign that my fridge is trying to communicate with me? Maybe my fridge is my life coach. Stranger things have happened.

If Gwyneth can goop, I can fridge.

I can already see it: "The Fridge Equation—Solve the riddles of your life by engaging with your favourite kitchen appliance".

Ah, it's brilliant! I want to wander off to Canva and making some mockups for marketing materials for my new home appliance-based "better life right now" coaching program. Do you think teal would work as a colour?

Maybe I should ask the fridge.

Cheese aside (did I mention that the cheese has aspirations of outrunning the fridge and becoming my favourite thing), I think there is a pretty simple explanation for why the fridge comes up, so when I think about how to get some more of my shit together.

The fridge helps me see what I already know.

Behind the matte chrome door hides a perfect microcosm of all the bits that go wrong every day in an average-Joan life like mine. Things come and go (hello, butter, goodbye, yoghurt), some things look yummy (cheese), some things are really good for you (the romaine, mainly, although the one time I almost died the romaine was the culprit...hm), and some things are not so great (I want desperately to believe that there is no such thing as too much Mayo...but I might be wrong).

On the surface, everything looks fine in the fridge most days. But if you're not careful, stuff piles up and goes bad in there. Usually, it's stuff that you didn't really want and shouldn't have put in the fridge in the first place. You know, when you can't say "no" right away and then end up with a "yes", that's rotting from the inside...that stuff.

Anyway, like the fridge, so is life.

And just as we already know what to do to keep the fridge clean and shiny, we already know what to do to make our lives a bit better.

Reading yet another "How to have a magically clean fridge in ten simple steps"-guide will not make the fridge clean. Instead, it will make you feel better about the fridge being a mess, and it will also give you a temporary sense of "I know what to do about the fridge". But hey, lady, guess what:

You ALREADY know what to do about the fridge!

Cause it is simple. Really.

You just get rid of stuff you don't want and put in more stuff you do want.

Now, go clean out that pesky corner of your life.

The fridge will thank you.