As I wrote the previous post, Pantry Priorities: Part 1, I kept feeling the pull to explore why someone would organize a pantry, or why someone who doesn’t want to organize should consider it anyway.  Since I am chronically verbose, I knew I’d fail to keep the post under an acceptable length of 900-1K words if I tried to do both. So in Part 1, I went with how. But today, join me on an adventure into the subjective landscape of why.

“Ready?”

I looked sideways at my housemate standing nearby in the cozy but comfortable kitchen of her 1918 home. Our other housemate had just moved out, and the anticipated task of re-organizing the pantry had arrived. Thankfully, we both were eager to have it done.