"George M. Middius" > wrote in message
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> Cheryl wrote:
>
>> > I might not have room for extra frozen or refrigerated stuff. And if
>> > it was
>> > stuff like bread or chips that might go bad before I could eat it, then
>> > that
>> > could be a problem. But canned food? You can stick that in a closet,
>> > in
>> > the garage, under a bed...
>>
>> For once I'm going to have to pretend to be you. I don't want food in
>> my already overstuffed closets, I don't have a garage, and I don't want
>> to store food under a bed.
>
>> Any more suggestions I can shoot down?
>
> How about unstuffing half a shelf in one closet?

We just unstuffed our closets. It was mostly things we'd been given as
gifts that we would probably never use. Like blankets. One Christmas it
was as though everyone we knew thought we could use a blanket. And while an
extra blanket is a nice thing to have, I already had a bunch of extra ones
that I got as freebies from a place I used to mail order from. I no longer
order from them because they kept screwing up my orders. Eventually I wound
up getting a ton of extra stuff for free, just like Cheryl, including the
blankets. The problem was that the stuff had been ordered for Christmas
presents and was not stuff that we needed for ourselves. Anyway... I kept
the blankets around for a while thinking that perhaps one of the blankets we
were currently using would go bad in some way and we might need one. But
that never happened.

I do know what it's like not to have enough storage space though because we
certainly don't in this house. Although it would appear that we do because
we have a lot of closets, they are very small closets and not very deep.
And as I have said before, there is no pantry in the kitchen. I used to
have a portion of my counter filled with canned/jarred foods because I had
no place to put them. Now I still do but for a different reason. And there
is a lot less there. I have moved the excess non-perishables to the garage.
I can do that here because it doesn't usually get extremely hot or cold
here. I did have to buy a shelving unit for them. I do buy some things by
the case at Costco and I do stock up when I find super good prices on things
we always use. Like refried beans and tomato sauce. I still use a little
portion of the kitchen counter now for things that are soon to expire. That
way they are obvious to me and I will use them up.

In the case of excess cat food, I would not have a problem finding a place
for it, even if it meant stacking the cans next to their food bowls.
Especially if that food were free.

I hate screw ups. I really do. But if the screw up involves me getting
free stuff that I can use, I won't be complaining too much.