Clutter Clutter Go Away

I like to think of myself as a neat person. And by neat I mean organized and clean. Something that does occasionally get out of hand though is the drawer that my roommate and I keep our food in. When we go to Harris Teeter to get groceries, we stock up and grab a lot of nature valley bars, nutrigran bars, etc. Today after we had just spend a ton of unnecessary amount of money, I dug through that food drawer. As it turns out, we had already had 3 nature valley bar boxes stuffed in the back, 2 cereal boxes, and some applesauces/canned fruit. What's frustrating is that because there was so much clutter, we were buying things we did not need at all. We didn't need to waste all of that money or the resources. The food comes in cardboard boxes that we may have to end up throwing away because they're expired. Essentially, we are just adding to all of the other unnecessary amount of waste that we throw out. So, my newest goal is to stop being wasteful by keeping things even more organized. Before my roommate and I go shopping, we are going to be much more careful and take a much closer look at all of the things we already have. By doing this we aren't contributing as much to the unnecessary amount of waste the world throws out every single day. If I would just take the time to take a quick inventory of what I have, the Earth would benefit from it.