Some of the following may strike you as odd. So let me preface this by telling you:

I am often comfortable with the way things are. There are certain things that I could do to make my life easier but it would involve a change that I don’t deem worth making, so I leave things the way they are even if it is an inconvenience of some sort.

There are probably a zillion examples of this over the years, but we’ll focus on this one today because it is one that I took action on recently and it has, no exaggeration, improved my quality of life and it’s something I should have done a long time ago.

I bought more spatulas.

For years - quite possibly dating back to our wedding registry more than 20 years ago but that seems crazy and I don’t think I’m crazy, but maybe you should be the judge of that - we’ve had just a couple of spatulas.

A couple of metal ones.

I use them mostly for serving food - scooping the fish out of the pan, serving the tater tots or fries, sometimes dishing out the taco meat.

Kathy will also often use them when she makes eggs. (I just usually use a fork to mix up the eggs if I’m scrambling them. For years I was also pretty much a sunnyside-up only egg eater.)

The problem, of course, with just two spatulas is if Kathy uses one in the morning for eggs, and then we have a dinner that involves a spatula that night, and then the next night I need a spatula for something…well, both spatulas are dirty and likely in the dishwasher. (Occasionally one of us might wash a spatula after we use it in anticipation of the next meal. But occasionally one of us will not.)

And sometimes that would upset me. No available spatulas. Now what. I need to wash one? What an inconvenience.

So, in early January, I was like, you know what? I’m just going to get a couple more spatulas.

And then, lo and behold, that week at the supermarket they were buy 2, get one free.

So now we have the three spatulas you see pictured above, and of course we still have the two metal spatulas.

We’re spatula rich! It’s like Spatula City! (Oh man, I hadn’t watched that clip in so long but I did when I went to get the link and it is just as amazing as I remembered. Go ahead and click the link to watch it. I’ll wait.)

It’s ridiculous that I got mad about unavailable spatulas for so long when I could have just done this. It was so easy. (I also understand the ridiculousness of this entire situation.)

But the important thing is, I did it. And I am happier because of it.

And now I even use a spatula every time I make eggs instead of a fork.