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When you have food in the freezer older than your youngest child, it is time to clean it out.

I found some incredibly funky looking meat prodcuts today as I tried to cram the stuff I bought today in there. Some of the things I removed:three ears of corn that were fresh in the spring of 2001, an oddly brown pot roast, what I am assuming by the shape are chicken drumsticks that I wrapped in foil (the skin is showing through in places), a truly disgusting looking peeled banana that I cannot imagine why I froze, a paint brush, some slushy thing in a baggy that leaked, grey looking ground beef and some chicken and rice casserole that I labled and dated in August of 2000 (Sam was born in September). I tied all of it up in a bag and stuck it back in the freezer to throw away on garbage day. I am sure it will take me weeks to remember to get rid of it. My next task is the refrigerator. Something leaked and it must be addressed...soon.