ice cubes
I use ice cube trays to make ice for my coffee, which I drink right away when I wake up in the morning. (I'm trying to break the habit of drinking coffee on an empty stomach, but give myself the excuse that my coffee is more like half coffee, half milk, so maybe...half the stomach lining damage?) Each tray makes 14 cubes and I have two trays. I usually use somewhere between 5-6 cubes per coffee, depending on the size of the jar I grab. So that means every day, I'm using up roughly half of one tray. This is the dilemma: Every time I make a coffee, I look at the remaining ice cubes and think "I should fill this up, since this needs to go back into the freezer anyways." But that means I'm filling up the tray every time I make a coffee. Why did I get two trays if I'm only really going to use one? The other tray will just sit in the freezer and become infused with weird freezer flavor. I should indulge a little, go two or three days without filling a tray. But by then I'd have one and a half empty trays and ice cube anxiety. What if a friend spontaneously comes over and wants ice water? So basically, this isn't actually a problem at all. But somehow it has become my daily morning quandary. And don't even get me started on the couple of stray ice cubes that sit in the tray after two days of coffee - do I throw those out...or add more water and refill the tray over them...