nicoleS39

@needanAuntie4f....Thank you for your concern. But...let me clarify. The meet referred to as "spoiled" was meatballs I make from ground beef and pork mixed with various spices and home canned salsa. I mix and then form the "balls", bake them, and then put them into the freezer for use and easy reheat when needed. They are "popular" with my husband and daughter and me...for packing in lunches and other uses. They can easily be warmed in a microwave. 

What happened is...last Friday I mixed the meat and spices and formed the meatballs as usual... in our finished basement where we have an extra oven. I put them in the oven to bake, but had not set the oven...lol. Right when I slide 4 pans in the oven, my daughter yelled down the stairs in a panic over our cat, who was obviously in pain. So...I ran upstairs and we found the problem. Our beloved cat had a glass sliver from a broken light bulb in its paw. With some effort, we managed to get it out and eventually calm our cat.  I was also multi-tasking and also doing some laundry...because...there is "always" laundry...right?  

Bottom line, I forgot all about the unbaked meatballs in the oven...and did not "discover" my "blunder" until this morning when I was looking for meatballs to pack into lunches.

My husband and I are in agreement that "waste" is to be avoided as much as possible in all aspects of our lives...but especially food. So...per our agreement...I am to report "waste" when it occurs. That does not necessarily mean I get spanked. He reviews the circumstances and makes a "call" as to whether such was due to my negligence or poor planning or bad execution...or...was it caused by something else...such as poor packaging or perhaps defective from the store.

So...my husband has not yet approached me on this matter. As always, he will do a fair review with me on the specifics of the situation....and only spank or discipline me if such is warranted by our agreed upon criteria qualifying as unnecessary waste.

I know he will want to know the monetary "sunk cost"...as he calls it...from the spoiled meat. My best estimate...about 4 lbs total of organic pork and ground beef....near $40 plus a jar of salsa at about $5. 

Please do not think my dear husband unfair. This is how we both want to live. He hates waste from his upbringing and his engineering mindset...lol. I also hate it from my Amish upbringing and work ethic. I totally abandoned those values in my early adult years, but have since regained my awareness regarding limiting waste when my husband took me as his wife 16 years ago.

As for my reference to being off "work"...I mean I am purposely not scheduled to work at my job outside our home on Wednesdays. That gives me a whole day to "work" at all the tasks involved in keeping our household and family running smoothly. I do not mean in any way that such is "not" work....lol...we both know it is. My husband certainly recognizes I "work" at home as much or more than I "work" at the fitness center and the coffee shop. I am assigned certain tasks that are expected to be done. We communicate frequently about such details. Thank God....my husband and daughter also have tasks they take on....and adjustments among us in work load are made to accommodate those "crazy" weeks that come up now and then. When our son was home, he also took on assigned household tasks as asked. 

With your further explanation, Nicole, all the more reason that it would seem to be unjustified for you to be in the kind of trouble you expressed concern about in your original post. It wasn't something you allowed to happen. There were certainly extenuating circumstances which should matter. I think the majority of us try not to be wasteful but sometimes things happen, as they did to you, that can't always be prevented. Maybe you "sunk" about $45, but you also saved a Vet bill so maybe you came out ahead.

My husband reviewed this, and exercised his right as the husband I have willingly submitted myself to...to discipline me this morning (the cane across my panty covered bottom)...and then running my errands and doing chores all day...and being summoned for the completion of my discipline after dinner and dishes...bent and restrained over the stool, panties down, for his belt over the cane streaks and across the backs of my thighs.

Life happens, our mutually agreed upon goal for me is that I maintain focus even when distracted by "things" that just happen sometimes. In this instance, my failure to maintain focus resulted in the unnecessary waste of food. It was not just about the money, but about falling short "again" in an area we mutually agreed upon as a spankable offense.

Perhaps some may feel my discipline justified. Although this spanking did indeed sting and I had hoped he might give me a warning...I "do" feel I deserved every stinging streak of that cane and every burning smack of that belt. He dealt with me in sync with our agreed upon expectations for me and him. I think next time I get "distracted" unexpectedly I will do better....and pause to consider what I was doing "before" the distraction.

I wasted a much larger amount of groceries about 4 years ago and paid a much more severe price than this time. I have not been spanked for this kind of food waste in maybe three years....so I have been doing pretty good in this area. Neither he nor myself want to see me regress in my growth in this area.

This spanking "reached" me, and I sincerely have thanked him just a few minutes ago for his consistency in helping me thru his discipline and authority.