Marie Kondo: Your Refrigator Is Calling -- Nothing About The Bakken

The other day I mentioned:

• tidying up
• joy
• Marie Kondo

Last night we received an e-mail from our middle granddaughter who has taken it upon herself to keep their refrigerator tidy and clean. Spoiler alert: she's going to be disappointed. It will be impossible to keep the refrigerator tidy and clean, and I bet her household is not unique.

Of all our expenses -- we are retired, old, no high school athletes living at home, surrounded by the best restaurants in the world, with several supermarkets within biking distance, all competing for our dollars -- our expense for food eaten as home is probably our smallest expense.

Major expenses: shelter, medical, dental, health insurance, life insurance, Starbucks, transportation, utilities, cable, telecommunications, toll roads, restaurants, massage parlors.

Eating at home is not on that list. Period. Dot.

We are very, very fortunate. I think about that often.

Having said the other side of the coin is this: Americans continue to struggle with obesity.

Our middle granddaughter implored family members and extended family members to eat the food in the refrigerator to clean it out.

No, Marie Kondo needs to write a book on tidying up the refrigerators of middle Americans. If it doesn't give you joy, throw it out.

This is not rocket science.

By the way, get rid of Saran Wrap.

Use those re-usable glass containers. Walmart has everything you need.

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Best Movie Of All Time

It's been at the top of the list so long, I completely missed this. Citizen Kane is no longer the best movie ever.

BFI Sight and Sound is the "bible" for racking and stacking best movies of all time.

For decades, Citizen Kane held the #1 spot.

Quick! What move is now #1?

Link here.

Citizen Kane has dropped to number 2.

The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

1. -- see the link --
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
5. Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
8. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

When you see #1 -- it doesn't even seem to fit in the list above.