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The old bag of rice

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I got a bee in my bonnet last week and decided the entire house is full of clutter. Brian of course silently nods because he has been telling me this for as long as I can remember. But it is just like me to walk past a pile of something for months and then one day it seems to annoy me that this pile of clutter is there and so I dive in neck deep into a massive organization and declutterization (is that a word?? It should be) project that takes over every nook and cranny and room in our house, creating a “momnado” effect that is felt far and wide. The first area of my attack: the pantry. I discarded and reorganized and cleaned the shelves, arranging items in new shelf locations, putting some things into air tight containers complete with chalk marker labels. During this “declutterazation” because I couldn’t stand the state of our pantry a moment longer and so it must be done right then and there, I found an old bag of brown rice. I remembered this bag because it moved here with us fr