Today Is Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

We are reminded today by Yahoo.com that today is 'Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day'. With the big food holidays coming up,  you're going to need all the room you can get. My question is, what makes us decide to keep those leftovers we know we'll never eat.

Maybe it's Chinese food or a few slices of leftover pizza, we know deep down that  it won't be eaten but we just aren't ready to commit to parting with it. It's like a form of 'leftover procrastination' or something. We convince ourselves to push off the decision to throw it out for a day or so, as if that makes us feel better. So now we face the task of reaching deep into the back of the fridge where all unwanted food goes to die and pull out six week old chicken chow mein, or at least I think it's chicken chow...no wait...it's the pizza.