But beware! There is a good chance that whatever is in the containers in the back is haunted...and is making the whole refrigerator haunted as well!
This is probably a good time to dispose of the haunted foods, or you could use them to scare someone on Halloween!
This is an opportune time to not only dispose of old haunted foods, but to clean and wipe down your whole refrigerator just to make sure that all of the haunted spirits are gone.
Coming the day before Halloween, National Haunted Refrigerator Night celebrates the horrors lurking in the back of refrigerators.
Often, we place leftover food in a container to eat later, and it ends up getting pushed to the back of the fridge, where it transforms itself into a scary sludge, and waits to frighten us when we eventually find it again, months or years later.
On this day, family and friends join together, open the fridge door, and brace themselves for the worst as they search the bottom shelf for leftover food haunting the refrigerator.
And don't even mention the crisper!
"It’s not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don’t know what to do with them or can’t be bothered." ~Julian Baggini
Okay, that may be a little harsh.
But let’s face it, there aren’t a huge number of things you can do with certain leftovers. Sometimes you forget all about them in the face of a fresher meal!
When you forget about those leftovers, you can rest assured that they certainly haven’t forgotten about you.
Instead, they sit lurking in the back of the refrigerator waiting for you to delve into its deepest, darkest corners and unleash the disgusting rotten mess and fetid stench that lie within those Tupperware sarcophagi.
National Haunted Refrigerator Night is the perfect time for you to don your protective gear, grab your proton pack, and bust the ghosts of dinners past that still lurk in your refrigerator.
HOW TO OBSERVE
National Haunted Refrigerator Night is best celebrated by cleaning out any and all of the horrors that live deep within your icebox.
Be sure to bring a medical mask, copious garbage bags, and, if you’re brave, a container of cleaners to try to restore the Tupperware to a usable state.
Honestly, though you’ll probably be safer by just tossing the whole thing into the garbage. Who wants to chance that smell sticking around?
You can finish off National Haunted Refrigerator Night with a vow (that we both know you won’t keep) to start using your leftovers more in the year(s) to come.
HISTORY
This holiday is one of the grand march of holidays created by perennial holiday creators: American film, television and voice actor Thomas Roy and his wife Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays & Herbs.
Thomas and Ruth decided that the best time to tackle the frightening depths of their refrigerator was the night before Halloween, and there they started a long history of tradition of where they would face these dangers each year.
We know that digging into your refrigerator can be overwhelming, even frightening, but that’s no reason to let those items continue to fester and mold.
While it would be best for people to make a habit of using the contents of their refrigerator throughout the year, (or at least clean it out a little more often), we all know that that isn’t going to happen.
Every day, we indulge in delicious meals and stash their remains with fond hopes of lunch tomorrow, dinner tomorrow night, or even a leftovers night on Friday.
And yet, they continue to sit and rot for months on end in the back of the refrigerator.
That is, until National Haunted Refrigerator Night, when it’s time to finally set those lost souls free from the haunted bowels of your refrigerator.
Post pictures of what you find by using #HauntedRefrigeratorNight on social media.
With that said, open up the old icebox and get to cleaning out all of the nightmare fuel-inducing foods.
We Frigi-dare you!
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