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Are you the food "cleaner" in your house

Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
I've come to realize that apparently one of my primary duties in our house is to be the one that finishes off the left overs, the bag of chips, the last 1/2 bowl of cereal, the last apple, the last little bit of whatever is "left" in the pantry (interestingly enough this does not seem to include the last cookie, the last piece of cake or pie ever...)

If I don't eat that last serving (or in most cases 1/2 serving) it would sit there FOREVER.
 
HumblePie said:
I was as well. I stopped doing it though. Makes you fat.
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Well I mean I only do it when I'm looking for something to eat. If I open the pantry looking for chips and there are 3 bags with a handful left, I will eat those. Wife and kids would just open a new bag...
 
Heh. My wife doesn't do leftovers (too lazy to pack them for lunch) and I think there's some sort of female circuitry there that associates "eating the last of something" as "eating all of something" and that's their guilt method of avoiding snacking.

Or it could just be that my wife is horribly lazy about cleaning out dishes after she's done.

Oddly enough, I'm usually the one that replaces toilet paper rolls and stuck with the empty gas tanks in the car too...

See a pattern here?
 
Homerboy said:
Well I mean I only do it when I'm looking for something to eat. If I open the pantry looking for chips and there are 3 bags with a handful left, I will eat those. Wife and kids would just open a new bag...
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There would never be a bag of chips with only a handful in it at my place growing up. If there was 1/2 a bag or less it all got eaten.
 
vi edit said:
Oddly enough, I'm usually the one that replaces toilet paper rolls and stuck with the empty gas tanks in the car too...
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my wife will put the new roll of toilet paper on TOP of the empty one. this means she reached over to the extra rolls canister, took out a new roll, and instead of swapping with the empty one, she just put it on top. of course, i'm not THAT much better. i'll swap the rolls but will leave the empty one sitting on the floor.
 
No, but similar. I'm the one who throws out the last 4 chips in the bag, the 1/4 bowl of cereal, the last two bites of sandwich, the melted ice cream, the mushrooms that got left out overnight, the soda bottle with a half inch of flat soda in the bottom.

(actual cleanup this morning)

Homerboy said:
(interestingly enough this does not seem to include the last cookie, the last piece of cake or pie ever...)
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So true! I wouldn't throw that out, but it never happens.
 
My family are big eaters and always made more food than any one army could finish. They always looked at me to finish it off. Until I was about age 24, I figured it out and told them finally, no, I cannot eat anymore of your over proportionate meal.


Then they give you that food-guilt-trip and name everything you ate since you were 2 weeks old like eating that one last piece of meat means anything to you. The rationalization of an overweight mother befuddles me.
 
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blackdogdeek said:
my wife will put the new roll of toilet paper on TOP of the empty one. this means she reached over to the extra rolls canister, took out a new roll, and instead of swapping with the empty one, she just put it on top. of course, i'm not THAT much better. i'll swap the rolls but will leave the empty one sitting on the floor.
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Same in my house. (except for the one sitting on the floor)
 
Drako said:
LOL, I was thinking the same thing.

Remember fatty, you don't have to finish the last half of a box of cereal 🙂
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I think you're missing the point.
If I'm hungry and want a snack, I go to the pantry. There I am more often than not, greeted with 3 bags of chips with 1 handful left in the bottom and 2 unopened bags. I choose to finish one (or more) of the opened bags. Wife or kids? They'd open a 4th or 5th bag.
 
Homerboy said:
I think you're missing the point.
If I'm hungry and want a snack, I go to the pantry. There I am more often than not, greeted with 3 bags of chips with 1 handful left in the bottom and 2 unopened bags. I choose to finish one (or more) of the opened bags. Wife or kids? They'd open a 4th or 5th bag.
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Hah, I do that all the time. Something mentally satisfying about not eating the whole bag, even though you left enough in there maybe to feed a small ant farm.
 
LOL.

My wife does the toilet paper on top of the empty roll thing too. It's up to me to put the new roll on the holder and throw out the empty roll.

Old, almost-empty, or totally empty food will sit in the fridge forever until I do something about it as well.

Oh yeah, biggest pet peeve - she doesn't put her dirty clothes away. Ever. At all. It's one thing to leave some clothes that aren't that dirty that you're planning to wear again. I do it, she does it. But she won't separate her not-quite-dirty clothes from her actually-dirty clothes. She doesn't just leave a pair of worn but still clean pants or a sweater on the floor, she'll leave one-use things like panties and socks there too.

I don't know how it goes in other relationships, but in ours, she is the "cleaner" and I am the "preventer." I do whatever I can to reuse things and make less work for myself, whereas she doesn't care and just leaves stuff to clean up later.
 
AstroManLuca said:
LOL.

My wife does the toilet paper on top of the empty roll thing too. It's up to me to put the new roll on the holder and throw out the empty roll.

Old, almost-empty, or totally empty food will sit in the fridge forever until I do something about it as well.

Oh yeah, biggest pet peeve - she doesn't put her dirty clothes away. Ever. At all. It's one thing to leave some clothes that aren't that dirty that you're planning to wear again. I do it, she does it. But she won't separate her not-quite-dirty clothes from her actually-dirty clothes. She doesn't just leave a pair of worn but still clean pants or a sweater on the floor, she'll leave one-use things like panties and socks there too.

I don't know how it goes in other relationships, but in ours, she is the "cleaner" and I am the "preventer." I do whatever I can to reuse things and make less work for myself, whereas she doesn't care and just leaves stuff to clean up later.
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+1 as the kids say.
 
We end up just throwing a lot of food out after it sits for awhile. When things get pushed to the back they tend to be forgotten. If something is not finished within a week and a half of being opened, it'll probably have to be thrown out. Doesn't help that my mom also brings over food some weekends and that gets stuffed in the fridge. Sometimes, I'm not even aware what is available until I go to clean out the fridge on garbage day.
 
I have several female relatives who have waistline issues. They all like to finish off their kids servings when they get up and leave food on their plate. I have never said anything, but it indicates to me that they like to clean up any leftovers that might be destined for the garbage.
 
Regs said:
My family are big eaters and always made more food than any one army could finish. They always looked at me to finish it off. Until I was about age 24, I figured it out and told them finally, no, I cannot eat anymore of your over proportionate meal.


Then they give you that food-guilt-trip and name everything you ate since you were 2 weeks old like eating that one last piece of meat means anything to you. The rationalization of an overweight mother befuddles me.
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That was me exactly, I used to be overweight because my mother would always put all this food on my plate cause she made too much, now I just refuse it.

And now, living with my wife, we have no problems throwing out left overs. It's some Asian thing to not waste and eat everything but it's not coming at the expense of our health.
 
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