Wordless Wednesday: Before the fridge (as mine is busted)

Since the fridge repair man yesterday broke my fridge, leaving all the food to spoil, and they claim they can’t come out until next week, I was pondering what people did before modern refrigerators.

Lower food into a well, or keep in a cellar

Salt the crap out of everything. Bread, meat, slugs...

Then ice was 'invented'. You popped out and bought some.

ice in the top, food on the shelves

If you loved your wife, you bought her the pink one

Then finally, we all had lovely side by side fridge/freezers and took them for granted. Ice blocks and yoghurt all round! Food poisoning only when stupidity is involved, hurrah! Except when your fridge says this:

I trust my therm more than theirs! Freezer isn't 21deg either, its about -15. Thanks repair man, you fixed it reel gud.

 

Fortunately, thanks to yet another tantrum, the repair guy will be back tomorrow and not NEXT WEEK as they planned. Good thing too, I would have gone global blogger vitriole on Samsung’s ass.
My Little Drummer Boys

Dear parents, we’d appreciate it if you got fat

Seems to be the time of year that schools and sports club look at how much money they’ve spent already and realise things are going to get tight towards term 4. Cue the fundraising chocolates!

Whose dumb ass idea was it to give kids a big box of chocolates and say they can’t eat them? Weasel’s school has just sent home a box of 48 giant freddo frogs with a note that children should not be involved in the selling. Err…if the kids aren’t supposed to be selling something, why give them something to sell?

I know it’s not safe for kids to go door to door anymore, but how uncool is it to tell the parents to go harass everyone they know and work with?

Obviously what is happening at every student’s house is the same as mine – the chocolates are in the fridge and kids are slowly eating them – as are the parents. Just before the money is due Mum will fill that stupid little envelope with a single $50 note. I can almost guarantee no child will turn up with 50 x $1 coins.

Just TRY and keep the little mitts out of it

I’m eating them too. I can’t help it. If you bring chocolate into my house right now, I will eat it. My quit sugar program seems to have found a loophole. On the plus side, as soon as these frogs are gone I can go back to being sugar free and detoxing – again. We pushed some on our weekend visitors, and I’ve bagged up a bunch as a gift for Bubba’s daycare, but I don’t have an office to put them in, and I’m sure as hell not flogging them to strangers. Return of leftover chocolates is not mentioned in the school’s info – that would be absurd.

Why couldn’t the school fundraise with stickers or balloons or a freakin’ cartwheel show? Why are all the older neighbourhood kids knocking on my door and trying to flog me their chocolates too? At least with those kids I can say no, partly because I can’t be bothered getting the key and unlocking the screen, but mostly because I’m a bitch who resents being asked.

Guess how much money Weasel’s school will make off this box of frogs. $19. That’s all. So much effort and calories and a shocking amount of sugar consumption for NINETEEN MEASLY DOLLARS.

How about this alternate approach?

Dear parents,  fundraising is important for schools, but we’re sensible and smart, so please give us $20 in the next couple of months. In return, you can pash a teacher of your choice. For $50 they’ll take their shirt off.

I know which I would prefer.

Chocolate fundraisers – love them or loathe them?

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