Entry FeedI don't know how I get myself into these things. Six weeks ago it sounded like a great idea to host the year end party for Son One's Select hockey team. The big day is tomorrow, and I scheduled it late to ensure good weather for a BBQ. Thanks Weatherman... POP 70%
Like most people, I learned party preparation through osmosis, growing up watching our parents host their own shin-digs.
For some, this mean spending a week cleaning the house top to bottom. In our house, my sisters and I removed clutter and helped with cleaning. Lucky for us my parents didn't play host weekly.
For other families, the focus is on food preparation. The week is spent in the kitchen, creating dish after dish. I love the baking part, but my own mother is the master of the perfect turkey, smooth gravy, and getting all of the food on the table hot at the right time.
Another important task, especially for the summer party, is making ice.
Yes, as a child I recall ice cube trays getting repeatedly filled and emptied into bags for the week leading up to the affair. Then, it became even easier to "make the ice" when refrigerators started coming with their very own build in ice makers. WOW!
Now, gas stations, convenience stores, grocery stores, even drug stores; every place you go there is an ice cooler where you can buy ready made bags of ice for as little as $2.50!!!!
Did they have this as a business when I was growing up? Who was the genius behind this idea to sell frozen water? (Likely the grandfather of the genius who decided to sell bottled tap water!)
For the BBQ tomorrow, making ice is part of my "party prep." Now the real question is, should I bother? Am I wasting my time making something that I could easily spend $10 on instead? Or I am being efficient and green, saving the environment from the trucks delivering ice to the corner stores and my own van from the drive? I mean, my fridge is working anyways, right? And isn't it more efficient to have a full freezer?
My kids caught me emptying the ice maker from the fridge into zip-lock bags...
"What are you doing, Mom?" they asked.
"Just making ice for the party tomorrow," I answered, a little sheepishly.
"Can we help?"
Just passing on another tradition to the next generation.
as the director of a green business for the last three years, its real nice to see information on the internet that helps people become more aware of ways to reduce their impact on the earth. Im so fed up of huge companies greenwashing customers into buying their latest fad.