r/FridgeDetective • u/otakulizardgf • Nov 17 '24
What does my and my wife's fridge say to you? Meta
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u/ifugiveanurseanacho Nov 17 '24
Very normal and you are at least honest lol
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u/WalterBlackness Nov 18 '24
This... is a normal fridge? I mean, I get the immaculate fridges that some people post are very clearly after a shopping trip and very well organized... but the Tupperware just thrown about? Drinks sitting on the edge of the shelf..
I would be so worried when opening the door everyday that im going to get a milk shower. Not trying to disparage or out anyone down. Just find it odd that so many people are stating this is "normal." My fridge is never super put together, but it also never looks like a tornado came through the place.
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u/ifugiveanurseanacho Nov 18 '24
I get what you’re saying. Maybe not normal but common. Most people are very busy working, or could have small children, are elderly, have mental health issues such as ADHD, or physical disability. My fridge looks best when I have enough time to do everything I’d like to be able do. I don’t judge other people for this kind of thing (or really much in general) because I have been there. We could all stand to give a little grace to ourselves and each other.
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u/Remarkable_Fox_243 Nov 17 '24
Feel like you can move the shelves around to fit your stuff more efficiently. And I wonder what’s on your door if all the jars are in the drawers? I’m gonna say you are two working and very busy people that don’t have a lot of free time!
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u/Fun-Shame399 Nov 17 '24
So I actually saw a thing about how if you put veggies and produce in the drawers, they’re out of sight and out of mind, so you tend to not use them before they go bad. The solution to make sure you’re eating them is to put something with a longer shelf life and used less frequently, like condiments and such, in the drawers so you can see your produce and actually use it up.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
This is exactly it!! We keep produce in the door and condiments in the drawers and have seen a significant increase in our veggie consumption since.
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u/Sad-Committee-1870 Nov 17 '24
I had mine like this too, then my boyfriend cleaned out the fridge and put the condiments in the doors again. So… here we go rotten and forgotten veggies!
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u/KiaTheCentaur Nov 17 '24
Clean it out again and put it back how you had it. Assert dominance.
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u/Sad-Committee-1870 Nov 17 '24
Ugh that sounds like work. I have way too much shit on my plate as it is 🤣
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u/Cheeky-Chipmunkk Nov 17 '24
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Is that why my veggies ALWAYS go bad!!
Guess I know what I’m doing today.
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u/Pretend-Bus9799 Nov 17 '24
My long term drawer storage is block cheese and things like smoked sausage and hotdogs for those emergencies.
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u/Fun-Shame399 Nov 17 '24
Ah yes, hot dog emergencies, I know them well. We usually keep brats as our protein for when we don’t have much left to eat and eat it with boxed Mac and cheese and maybe mix in some broccoli. Currently I’m pregnant so I’m mixing hot dogs all the time
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u/avedisocial Nov 17 '24
possibly busy people and need grab and go stuff, dont have time for organization, no time to eat the leftovers (which are probably going to end up thrown out or eaten on a leftovers-for-dinner day), and that grocery shopping may be due soon.
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u/ToastStixx Nov 17 '24
First thing I thought was BUSY and ON THE GO or possibly disabled…and need a grab and go option.
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u/thatgirlinAZ Nov 18 '24
Absolutely! I looked at that fridge and thought, they're too busy for petty organization.
If you can find food, good enough.
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u/CocoNefertitty Nov 17 '24
You’re cleaner than the people who have their cats fucking about in their fridges
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u/nihility24 Nov 17 '24
Okay I’ll try deduction- You guys have both cooked leftovers and ready made meals, so both of you are working jobs and life to cook in the weekends
They 2L fruit juice and milk bottle are almost empty, so both of you like to have juice & milk and may prefer eating healthy
There are lot of sauce bottles at the bottom drawers- so you guys like variety in food items and like to experiment with cooking (maybe)
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u/HotAzDesert Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 19 '24
That the rest of your house looks like the inside of your fridge
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u/Batticon Nov 17 '24
Nah, I bet it’s opposite. Everyone is messy in one area
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u/Caverness Nov 17 '24
Yeah, and the more whack my fridge gets the cleaner my house is. I’m busy lol
And nobody sees that!
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u/velvetteddykiss Nov 18 '24
Yes lol my place is clean but the fridge? Don’t be looking in there.
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u/undeniablefruit Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 17 '24
Idk, I have dogsat for people who had a fridge much dirtier than this (I actually cleaned it while they were away because it grossed me out so much and I was staying there 2 weeks with my food in their fridge) and the rest of their house was also a mess, and it smelled like pee everywhere.
Edit to add: They were both retired, and I had to take a spoon to some of it to scrape off this massive goo spot under the crisper drawers and on the shelves. It was not a good time
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
Depends on the room! Bathroom and my room are clean, wife's room and living room is messy
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u/Low_Contest_1327 Nov 17 '24
Do you sleep in seperate rooms? My parents did this my whole life growing up and I thought it was normal.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
We do!! We have very different sleep and space needs, so we have separate bedrooms. Honestly it's been a game changer in regards to getting good rest.
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u/Low_Contest_1327 Nov 17 '24
That's awesome, actually! It sounds like you have a healthy relationship, considering each other's needs.
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u/pliant0range Nov 17 '24
This is actually really cool to see. I support separate bedrooms. I’m a very light sleeper and everything wakes me up. My partner can sleep through a hurricane. How long you been married?
I kinda worry sometimes like if a fire happens, how do I wake this slumbering ass up?
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u/justfresco Nov 17 '24
My spouse legitimately bought smelling salts in case he needs to wake me up in an emergency lol. I didn't even know you could just buy those.
We've never had to use it so I can't vouch for it exactly, but it's an option.
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u/sweet_pickles12 Nov 17 '24
I used to be really anal retentive about the inside of my fridge. Turned out, once I stopped caring where things went, food still stayed cold and got eaten
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u/balalaikagam3s Nov 17 '24
I believe it. My mother was the same way she hoarded things in the fridge and cluttered the house with random stuff and forget about the pantry... I mean, it was nice because we had food but it was also a MESS. Sometimes you’d grab one thing and it started a domino chain reaction of shit falling. It’s why now I’m obsessed with keeping things clean and tidy, lol.
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u/RugBurn70 Nov 17 '24
"Don't eat leftovers, if you can't remember what day/meal they're from." My parent's fridge growing up, and still is.
A couple Xmases ago, my dad dug around way back of the fridge, pulled out an unopened summer sausage made from reindeer. That had expired over 2 years before. And wondered why none of us would try any lol
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u/Stinky_Butt_Haver Nov 17 '24
You are a normal person with healthy and junk food. You are self-actualized and you even pack your own lunches. This is sustainable.
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u/sassy-seahorse Nov 17 '24
Seems to me you have a lot going on in your lives. Busy people, busy lives. You value what's in the fridge more than what your fridge looks like. This fridge is orderly compared to most fridges in America. The ones shown on this sub are not representative of most homes in America. All the judgmental, haters are projecting since their fridges can't meet the Insta standards of the ones usually posted here.
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u/YourAverage_Reddit0r Nov 17 '24
You and you wife fridge looks like you use the fridge to the max of how much it can hold
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u/Auelian Nov 17 '24
My parents fridge is like this, drives me nuts. But ima assume you both work demanding jobs with little time to really deep clean. You also try to cook/eat healthy but don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it.
The only thing throwing me off is the condiments in the drawers.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
She works a stressful tech industry job and I work overnights at a local hotel, you're dead correct on us trying to cook and eat healthier but not having a lot of time for it.
However the condiments in the drawers are because when we were putting vegetables and fruits in the crisper they would tend to rot before we got to them, so we put the condiments in the drawers cuz we're more likely to look for one when we need one and the fruits and vegetables go in the door of our refrigerator where we can see them immediately. 100% this is led to us eating a lot more vegetables with our meals.
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u/Auelian Nov 17 '24
Might steal the veggie idea. Pretty smart!
And yea. My step mom is a district manager for a large retailer, and my dad is a general manager for another large retailer. It’s super hard for them to keep an organized fridge. They just throw it in, or take it out! To little time to really care. Lol happens, life is busy!
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u/Repulsive_Assist5705 Nov 17 '24 edited Nov 17 '24
the condiments are in the drawers so that produce can be in the door, easily visible so you can't forget the veggies exist as easily
Edit, typo
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u/CFW-DREX2 Nov 17 '24
That you've probably got some unforgivable shit thats been forgotten about in the back.
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u/Spirited-Carpenter19 Nov 17 '24
You are one of my children posting under a fake account.
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u/stellardreamscape Nov 17 '24
3/4ths of it is expired.
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u/Rich-Canary1279 Nov 17 '24
Better to keep it in the fridge than put it next to the sink unless you're ready to deal with it! Otherwise you'll start a mold farm. And sometimes you're not sure when you'll be ready to deal with it...
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u/sunnE_dazE_949 Nov 17 '24
That you're busy. Both of u are employed.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
This is a very accurate statement. I'm tired of being busy for real
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u/Mellll_ Nov 17 '24
Organize your fridge, trust me. It takes nothing to spend like 30 minutes trying to organize and seeing the fridge tidy as long as you keep it tidy. Or, your can see your fridge like that forever and it's not tidy.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
Just organized it! The picture was a before shot, but an honest veiw of grief since the last I cleaned it was right before my mom passed a couple weeks ago
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u/Summertime2299 Nov 17 '24
Looks just like mine. Too busy to care about what it looks like inside as long as everything fits and the door shuts 🙏🤣
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u/Madpingu96 Nov 17 '24
Idk why but this fridge leads me to believe you have at least 3 or more pets and no children
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u/CeldonShooper Nov 17 '24
I love your fridge which looks almost as chaotic as ours (which I would never post here.) I would guess you are a pragmatic couple and like food.
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u/Red_dit_lol Nov 17 '24
Love this. My fridge looks like this and I get embarrassed. Thanks for normalizing my fridge.
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u/Daxian Nov 17 '24
You live in the midwest. Shop at walmart. Maybe Wisconsin? looks like a Wisconsin fridge.
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u/Scared_Discipline_66 Nov 17 '24
Middle class, type b personalities, no kids, you don’t subscribe to diet culture. You guys make big breakfasts on Sunday. Your house is messy but you don’t mind
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u/Izzyd3adyet Nov 17 '24
you have a good wife - looks just like my fridge- sensible, but maybe eat more leftovers so they don’t pile up
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u/herosene Nov 17 '24
married, no kids. both work very demanding jobs, which explains the ready to eat dinners and protein shakes
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u/dian57 Nov 17 '24
It says.... You should probably throw out leftovers! Mine says the same alll the time!
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u/Embarrassed-Code-597 Nov 17 '24
That you forget you have the same thing and buy it again , then forget to toss the old one because the exp date hasn’t passed yet and you “could still finish it” but then you rinse and repeat until the fridge is packed 🤣
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u/Klutzy_House_9475 Nov 17 '24
You or your wife cooks a lot, probably a happy family with all those home cooked meals!
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u/Strict-Stop9688 Nov 17 '24
That your normal. At least compared to all the other fridge comparisons.
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u/bellydncr4 Nov 17 '24
That you might be good at jenga. I'm scared to even breathe on anything and lead to an avalanche
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u/Embarrassed_Effort64 Nov 17 '24
This is real I feel like most people organize they're fridge before posting
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Nov 17 '24
I'd say there's like a 50/50 chance when you try to like open sour cream or any other container that it's not going to contain anything but leftovers that are probably been sitting there for weeks lost in the abyss of that unorganized fridge and you know these people got to be old because that definitely looks like my Granny's fridge. There's probably stuff in there for like 98 just chilling in the back. I guess these people don't eat vegetables because they're vegetable drawers are full of what looks like processed food and pickles
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u/vron1992 Nov 17 '24
This looks like a happy fridge. Normal people live in this house! This fridge is awesome! Sick of seeing staged fridges! Like a breath of fresh air! 🤣
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Nov 17 '24
I wanna say you lack organization and clearly live a cluttered life but the reality is this is how most non dirty peoples fridge still looks. It's nice to think every thing looks pristine and perfect on time but most of us simply don't have the time nor energy to worry about things that at the end of the day don't truly matter.
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u/Fun_Imagination9232 Nov 17 '24
Feel bad about throwing away leftovers but end up throwing them away weeks later anyways cause they end gone bad since you won’t eat leftovers. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Informal_Ad6555 Nov 17 '24
“We are programmed to receive, you may check out anytime you like but you may never leave”.
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u/JustOneMoreAnonymous Nov 17 '24
Need to work on your organization game but I mean it's clean, just cluttered
ETA: well somewhat clean
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u/cutiecumber_ Nov 17 '24
the condiments in the drawers is giving ADHD. You guys do a lot of home cooking but you need to have a fend for yourself night where everybody just eats leftovers sometime soon.
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u/No_Storage_8408 Nov 17 '24
That your refrigerator is too small and you spend your time enjoying each other and living, loving and caring and laughing.. to worry about cleaning that refrigerator... r
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u/Slagenthor Nov 17 '24
Just like me. You probably FUCKING HATE washing those plastic containers. Lol
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u/Minute_Box3852 Nov 17 '24
You're my spirit animal. The fridge is the forgotten space that needs cleaning. If it's not in the front row, it has been laid to rest and buried in the back to rot in eternity.
Oh and you probably have adhd like me. We love to stack like jenga since the concept of organization is foreign and takes too much time.
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u/NoFig9882 Nov 17 '24
Need more fresh produce in your lives.
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
Fresh produce lives in the door and gets eaten very quickly. Except cucumbers for some reason, they tend to languish
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u/bugonglong Nov 17 '24
I am intrigued by bottles and jars in the crisper drawers lol
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u/otakulizardgf Nov 17 '24
A couple of years back we started keeping condiments in the crisper drawers and produce in the refrigerator door, which has led to us eating a lot more fruits and vegetables since they no longer go in a drawer to be forgotten and die.
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u/Little_Bit_87 Nov 17 '24
That y'all both work full time jobs that pay about what my partner and I make because for a second I thought this was my fridge lol.
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u/Frequent_Damage513 Nov 17 '24
Looks like your wife went to bed early and you put away the leftovers... (Yes I'm projecting lol).
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u/Ambitious-Effect6429 Nov 17 '24
Much like my grandma, do your butter tubs actually contain butter or just leftovers?
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u/Recent-Industry811 Nov 17 '24
Convenience is the key either you are busy to cook at night or too tired from working too much. Those premier protein shakes are good.
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u/-mia-wallace- Nov 17 '24
Relatable!! All these staged fridges or freshly organized and stocked ones make me question myself lol.
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u/Simply_drifting4 Nov 17 '24
You guys probably don’t know how to cook for only two or you make an entire package of a premade meal “just incase” and end up storing the rest because “it’ll be good for lunch tomorrow.” Where you will probably opt to just grab a snack from the fridge on your way out the door and say you’ll be hungry for your leftovers when you get home. You have at least one (probably as many as 3) fend for yourself nights a week. You hate wasting food but if the food has been on the fridge longer than a couple days you more than likely won’t eat it. You both probably have jobs that start later than a 9-5 so you have time to make and eat breakfast in the morning most of the time but by the time you get home you’re too tired to do crazy intense cooking. You like the idea of meal prep but you know you would get bored of the food probably after the first day and who really has time for that
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u/kuma-i Nov 17 '24
I just know yall have a graveyard fridge, like me and my man. We put leftovers in Tupper and let them die. :'c
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u/thedankone168 Nov 17 '24
Y’all are about as stable as the Tupperware balancing act. (No judgement, I’ve totally been there)
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u/Quirky_Commission_56 Nov 17 '24
It looks like our fridge aside from the orange juice adds OJ to our shopping list
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u/nomiconegut Nov 17 '24
Trying to eat healthy on the go. Honest and doing your best 🙏💛.
I’m all for leftovers, but unless have a bigger brood, I bet some of it’s no good. Food poisoning is not the way to shed those lbs lol
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u/GreedyBanana2552 Nov 17 '24
This is the most realistic fridge I’ve seen here! You cook at home unless you’re feeling lazy (but don’t beat yourself up over it). You have a little food waste here and there but overall try to get to fresh items before they turn. Leftovers are great lunches.
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u/Ijustwanttosayit Nov 17 '24
You have adhd and food blindness. Out fridge looks like this. We have some Tupperware leftovers that my partner has forgotten.
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u/unavoidable_void Nov 17 '24
"I put away leftovers so I don't feel so bad that I'll never actually finish what I made except for that one dish that I made and it was AMAZING."
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u/FloralPorcelain Nov 17 '24
That you need to give your wife a weekend to herself and while she’s away eat all the leftovers and clean out the fridge for her.
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Nov 17 '24
Are those the Aldi meals in the middle? I LOVE THOSE they are a staple in our fridge also.
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u/Thems-The-Breaks Nov 17 '24
You’re ADHD and trying different don’t-waste-food hacks. Your stove is probably dirty
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u/Ilike3dogs Nov 17 '24
Says that you’re probably more honest than most people on here who stage their refrigerator. Also says that you’re not going hungry 🥰