When you move into a new apartment you are bound to inherit some unexpected things from the former tenants. When you sign the line at the end of your lease you don't really know what you're getting into. For some it's a noisy neighbor, a sticky window, or even the ghost of a former tenant. My unexpected inheritance is a group of squatters! More precisely, Moth squatters!
I didn't even realize that was a problem that people had. Apparently the annoying little pests love hanging out in pantries. They just adore flour, rice, tea, pasta, you name it. After an initial sweep of the cabinets they are still appearing, fluttering across the room like they pay rent. Enoughs enough! The apartment has been baited with moth traps and a few has been caught but a few survivors remain.
In the meantime, I've taken this pesky situation on as a reason to act out my Martha Stewart fantasy life. I stared a moth in it's ugly little face and said "I'm going to organize, label, and seal up ever bite of food you will ever want to eat and it's going to look amazing!" To the Container Store I went and picked up a dozen glass canning jars. Then to Staples to get the perfect labels ala Martha Stewart for Avery. These lovely chalk board labels are perfect! Now things look great and there's no little moth babys wiggling around in my rice (that never happened and I know it sounds disgusting, but they really do that.)
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