RV LIFE – Uh Oh!!! Coffee Mess!

“Lori!! Hurry!! Get out here!!” is NOT the way you want to be awoken in the morning! Well, that’s how Tom woke me up the other day. He came out of the bedroom, anxious for a nice fresh cup of morning coffee, and he found that the coffee was spilling ALL OVER THE COUNTER and the side of the cabinet and the wall! Yikes! For some reason, when I set the coffee maker up the night before, I didn’t set the coffee pot on the base the right way, therefore; the coffee came pouring out of the maker and was spilling all over the place. That’s not a fun thing to deal with even in an S&B, and in an RV, it’s even worse! We can’t have liquid pouring down the side of these thin walls and into the floor!

The rest of the weekend, Tom made me put the coffee maker in the sink at night so that when the coffee maker came on in the morning, if there were spills, it would just make a mess in the sink and not all over the kitchen counter, walls, or floor. Well, that was just a pain to do every night with moving it and resetting the clock for it to automatically come on in the morning so that we could wake to fresh brewed coffee. (I know, that sounds lazy, doesn’t it?) I had to think of something else. So, I came up with this idea; I put the coffee maker in a baking dish on the counter. This way, if there are any spills, the liquid will be contained in the baking dish. It may ruin the coffee maker, but a $30 coffee maker is certainly cheaper than new cabinets, walls, and flooring.

Now, I can sleep peacefully at night knowing that our coffee will be fresh and brewed ready for us when we get up in the morning without a giant mess and liquid damage to our little home.