Oh Internet, you totally called it.
In case you are not fully caught up on the ridiculous minutiae of my life, our butter dish disappeared a few weeks ago. Cue the weeping.
Anyway, my husband and I finally caved this weekend and bought a replacement. We got it for $4.95 at Crate & Barrel.
According to several genius commenters, this was going to guarantee that my butter dish would magically appear.
And oh did it ever! On Monday, as I was cleaning the kitchen in preparation for my book club dinner.
It was behind the toaster oven. There was butter in it. Key word: WAS. It had since oozed out onto the wall, the counter, and the cords of both the toaster oven and the Keurig machine. Ever watched Ghostbusters 2: The Pink Ooze That Ate New York? Picture the butter version of that supernatural goo that took over the Statue of Liberty. That’s what the area behind my toaster looked like. (No Sigourney Weaver sightings though.)
I was *thisclose* to taking a photo of the whole mess. But then I figured I’d rather not give my (very clean) mother a heart attack.
Internet, how often do you clean behind your toaster oven?
If I might, I’d like to offer a little suggestion: Do it more than never.
Otherwise, your perfectly serviceable butter dish might languish forever amid a puddle of rancid butter, a scattering of crumbs, and a single generic-brand ibuprofen.
P.S. I did keep the Crate & Barrel receipt and, in fact, never managed to even take the new butter dish out of the bag. So I can still return it. PHEW.
I guess that’s the way life goes! At least it wasn’t something expensive that you had to buy to find the first one – that would suck!
Ick! Sounds like not a fun cleanup. Glad you found it though š
I knew it! (that you would find it, not that the butter would be rancid)
hahaha! BUT … I wouldn’t return the butter dish just yet – that will guarantee another loss!
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I just laughed out loud at this! Sorry you had to deal with the mess, but it made a good story for the rest of us š
Oh yeah, and keep the new butter dish as a spare! $4.95? Score!
Hahaha–but I have to admit, I fully expected this post to end with you stating that you had to keep the new one as you could never again use a butter dish that had rancid butter in it š
Oh Lord. I hope I have not put crazy thoughts into your head!
Hilarious. So what did you read for book club and what did you cook? I heart my book club!
Nothing behind my toaster oven! (I just checked.) But we moved it during Christmas, so it’s only had a month to hide things.
Oh, yikes! That stinks! And cleaning rancid butter is no fun at all.
I LOVED Ghost Busters 2!!!!! I attempt to clean behind my toaster oven as often as possible – but then again I have two cats and a very large dog and if I don’t I’m afraid the dust bunnies will grow super big, come alive, and attack me š
That is pretty funny. I have lost my camera charger, but have been content with the thought that it would show up. Well it hasn’t, and now that battery is dead. I guess I need to spend the 30 something dollars to get the univeral battery charger. According to your advice, I will then find it haha! I am going to try this weekend.
I don’t think I’ve ever cleaned INSIDE the toaster. I keep the thing under the counter so it moves every time we use it, so no worry about what happened to you. But it’s a good reminder to clean everywhere and you won’t lose things!
Oh butter – why do you vex us so?
Phew….I can rest tonight knowing the butter dish has returned. š
[you seriously crack me up]
Not to self… clean behind the toaster!!
Glad you found your dish – I was beginning to worry š
Funny story…this summer we went to LBI on the Jersey Shore for a week. I went grocery shopping the second day we were there and brought everything back and then days later when I wanted to melt the butter for lobster, I couldn’t find it. I looked everywhere but it never showed up…until the day we left. There was an emptyb butter box and some wrappers in the trunk of our car….and an oil slick that TO THIS DAY still stains anything that ever touches it. Ew.
I almost cleaned behind stuff yesterday and I thought of you. Don’t worry though – I’m still the same lazy Megan, I didn’t actually clean anything.
I am terrified to move the microwave. I don’t want to know what form of sentient grossness lives back there. But I did realize that I need to occassionally dust behind the television lest the dust bunnies and the spiders form an unstoppable army and take over the rest of the house.
But I’m thinking I would have tossed the old butter dish with the rancid butter and kept the new one. I know, I should be more conservative and less of a princess. But I would still have thrown out the old one.