Where Did Our Lids Go?

 

This week I spent some time contemplating one of the great questions of our era. Where do our lids go? How do lids and containers go astray? They enter the cabinet together and somehow they don't exit together. How does this happen?

I have no answer to this question, or to the equally perplexing one about where socks go during their journey in the dryer. But lids and socks both disappear. 

I'd been thinking about the lid issue for several months, but I decided to further investigate this when I started to look for a matching lid and container this week. I had an abundance of lids and containers, but few of them seemed to match. The time had come to sort out my collection. 

This was my result. Lids and containers that don't match. 

I'm not sure how this happens. Sadly, I hadn't sorted out the collection in too long, but I have no memory of discarding lids or containers through the years. I may never get an answer to this question, but I am happy to have made some order out of my storage chaos. 

Has anyone else observed this mysterious phenomenon?

I've written before about decluttering and it's still my ongoing project. I've given away a number of books and done a good job decluttering clothes I no longer wear, but my focus for the next few months is the paper that has accumulated over the years. There's a free shredding event at the end of April and I'm planning/hoping to have a bag of paper to take there. Is anyone else decluttering?    

I haven't been part of Pink Saturday in years, but it was a blog feature for a long while. Remembering Pink Saturday, I'm posting this photo from a visit to Whole Foods yesterday. 

As ever, thanks for visiting and happy spring!