things you come home to- a Purple Room Vent

I have an amazing and wonderful family. Each and every one of my kids and husband is exactly the person I love them to be.
That being said.......I have a family that never ever picks things up, puts things right, puts things away or just randomly does a kind act for the household good. I shall give some examples and keep in mind that every time I come across these little things I am thinking about my sister's family or my best friend's family. This just wouldn't happen in their homes. It just simply wouldn't.

I went out the front door to get the mail yesterday. Lying over under the edge of th house was a big fat orange. An orange. Why? I ask. Why would an orange be just lying there under the edge of the house? The only way it could have ended up there was when the groceries were set at the front door when I went shopping, three days before we left for Shanghai. That is a full two weeks that orange has been laying there. And I know as sure as I am sitting here, that ten years from now it will still be there, or at least the dried dna of it would be. Would this happen in Kathy's house? Would this happen in Cookie's house? I think not!!

The fridge.....OMG!!! Today I took a few minutes to take some things out. This is what I removed....two ziplock bags of runny potatoe salad from Monte's party two days before we left for SH. Soggy, melting runny cucumbers. A half full jar of left over sangria. A styrofoam container with withered dried up pieces of duck. A ziplock bag of something so bad I am not sure what it was (I think it was coleslaw from the party). Old packages of sandwich meat, green sandwich meat. Two containers I wouldn't even open. Would this happen in Kathy's house? In Cookie's house? Hmmmm mmmmmm nope.

Over by the toaster was a bread bag with completely green moldy hot dog buns. Under the couch were three socks, not matching and not clean. There was a bottle cap tucked down in the crease of the leather divider of the coffee table. There was a vase of very dead flowers dropping their stuff all over the buffet. Would this happen in THEIR house? NO IT WOULDN'T!!!

Ok I have vented and I feel better. Plus now that I have done all that....the house is cleaner! And I have always spouted the house rule, "IF IT BOTHERS YOU, DON'T COMPLAIN, GET OFF YOUR DUFF AND YOU DO IT!!" And that is just what I did.