Today, I did something that I’ve never done before: I digged in my kitchen trashcan for food.
And then I promptly went “WTF?!”… but I still used the food afterward.
The interesting, albeit still disgusting, part in that is that it wasn’t out of gluttony, or because I was having a binge, or had thrown away the food previously so that I could keep in control. The food in question, mind you was ionly a small bottle of cinnamon powder, its lid was still unopened, and you, faithful reader, has to know that cinnamon is pretty much one of the few idols I devote my life to. Well, okay, not. But I really like cinnamon. I’ll put it on fruits, in cottage cheese, in my oatmeal… pretty much everywhere. Cinnamon is my equivalent of sugar when it comes to flavouring certain items that may be bland–like the aforementioned oatmeal. Cinnamon is love.
And I am a stupid airhead, who somehow managed to think that this unopened bottle was in fact the very much opened bottle that I had emptied the day before and already thrown away. Talk about being tired and confused these days.
So I don’t know, perhaps–surely?–it was a disgusting act. Yeah. Let’s be honest, that was icky no matter how I want to sugarcoat it.
However, I am quite certain that I wouldn’t have done that with a package of cookies–oddly enough, could you say. But I may have reconsidered if it had been packed vegetables, for instance. After all, I can clean the package around them, they normally should still be good, right? Same goes for that unopened bottle. In my eyes, those are worth redeeming.
I’m all for throwing out junk. But something that is healthy, or at least neutral and that I use so much and every day, well… I’m not ready for that.
I guess next time, I’ll just have to avoid throwing food-related items that are still good and in their original package. Except if it’s junk, because junk only enters my house if other people bring it in, and then I don’t care about whose money I’m throwing away (not as much as if it were mine, at least, even if the thought still sucks).
July 30th, 2007 at 16:26
Just came across your blog on a link from another one…I just wanted to tell you that it’s really not gross! I mean, it was still in the bottle, so the actual product was untouched by whatever else was in the garbage
I would have done the same thing!
August 5th, 2007 at 10:06
Hehe, thanks.
I think I was also quite struck by my reaction at first. It made me wonder if I’d also be able to get into my trashcan to retrieve cookies and the likes. But now I don’t think I would, so it’s okay. (Good thing that the lid was closed on that particular food, though!)
August 6th, 2007 at 05:28
I am so not a role model for hygiene. So I wouldn’t have thought twice about retrieving an unopened bottle of cinnamon from the trash. Hell, if I accidentally threw a piece of fruit in there or whatever, I’d just rinse it off and eat it. Like I said; not a role model!
August 6th, 2007 at 15:19
Okay, I’m not that weird then. And at least we get our fruit and cinnamon!