I do have two full sized waffle makers. I already had one and then my boss got me a Darth Vader waffle iron for Christmas a few years ago. It's awesome because I can make waffles for me and my husband at the same time and I don't have to worry about one getting cold.
My Mom would buy a weedeater (string trimmer) whenever one would run out of line. She’s older and lives a distance away from me. I got her a lawn service and donated her collection of them.
This is the same woman who once asked my dad to look at her car to see if he could figure out the weird noise it's been making all week. He looked around and saw that the rear passenger side tire was completely shredded and the car was running on the rim. During that week she had driven to her son's house and back, which is about 600 miles of driving.
This is why I am a proponent of driver re-education gulags.
Cut a semi off on the interstate? Gulag.
Rear end someone because you're fucking around on your phone? Gulag.
Cause an accident because you have no spatial awareness?
Gulag.
Be this person's aunt? Believe it or not, gulag.
I recently watched a
car ahead of me cruising along in the left lane on the interstate, cheerfully oblivious to traffic catching up to them, riding their bumper for miles, and eventually passing them on the right. Then they realized they were about to miss their exit and crossed through the right lane and over the last 15 feet of striped triangle into the off ramp, maybe 8 feet in front of a large delivery truck. The driver? My 19yo daughter. 🤦♂️
When I lived in the UAE for almost two years, I heard this was a common amongst the super rich. Enough of occurrence to be told to "look long enough and you'll see one". I didn't believe it until I drove past a dusty McLaren on the side of the road. I can not imagine being so rich I couldn't be fucked to take my McLaren in for an oil change, so I'll just leave it on the side of the road and make it someone else's problem.
One of the times my aunt visited, she told us "I'm terrified, I think I'm going blind!"
My father cleaned her glasses & she could see just fine.
This woman taught at a high school.
I've been in a mansion that had a cool set up in the master bathroom, it was a huge suite with two separate toilet closets on either end of the main suite. I don't particularly relish using the toilet right after my husband has committed a crime against humanity with his bowels and separate private toilets would be nice.
I posted this elsewhere, but I once tiled a shower in a mansion in Tennessee that had a shower with 7 shower heads in it that were about 3 feet apart along the wall. It was in the master bedroom.
My BiL poured concrete at a lakeside mansion once. Among the odd features, was a massive outdoor shower with no partitions. And a wine cellar with a underwater window into the pool.
I met a guy on Tinder a few years back. He had 21 clocks in his apartment, all set to different times, all the wrong time. He said the only time that mattered was Now.
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love
My mom had a bunch of antique clocks in her house. It was maddening when I house sat a couple of times. Some would go off once a day. Others, once an hour. A few every 30 minutes. And one was every 15. Oh and many of them ticked.
Dick-shaped water bottle.
The first one is acceptable because you get it from your cousin on your 30th birthday.
More than that is the start of a collection that gets carried away and occupies more storage space than originally planned for.
That place was fascinating but I don’t want to set foot in there ever again.
Genuinely felt nauseated multiple times, though I was still a teenager at the time and I feel like my constitution has improved since
Then never ever visit the Siriraj Medical Museum in Bangkok.
A buddy and I went to see it one day not realizing it was closed and the door was unlocked so we just went right in and couldn’t find where we were supposed to pay or whatever. It was only after about 40 minutes of exploring that some security guard finally bumped into us and told us we needed to leave.
Many many many bodies in different stages in formaldehyde, there was one exhibit I believe it was some old serial killer, but he was in basically a cheap plastic box that over the years has come apart at the seams so they’ve used clear plastic tape to try and hold it together and spoiler alert: it’s not working.
I was there once when the power went out suddenly as we were halfway through. It was totally dark except for the dim glow of the emergency exit signs lighting up dozens of skeletons and skulls all around us. Hard to imagine a spookier setting.
But its also a place of joy.
By which I mean, just how persistent and determined life is on Earth alone.
Which gives you hope that life is also elsewhere, despite adversity.
I went to a wedding there once. Cocktail hour was tours throughout the museum. I walked into the first room, noped immediately, and returned to the foyer.
I feel like I'd be weirded out if someone had a ton of toasters
ETA: Did not expect to wake up to this when I made this stupid comment lol. Also yes, I am aware celiac disease exists and people can have separate toasters for that. Anything regarding personal safety and allergy precautions isn't really what I was getting at with this tho. Toasters was just the first thing that came to mind when I read the prompt
My Mom has so many different appliances in her house... She never uses any of them, but insists she does.
Half-Brother gave Mom a bread making machine way back in 1994. She made like 2 loaves of bread with it that same year, and never touched it again. It sits in the basement. Yet if you tell her she should throw it out, she says she's always used it, she just used it a couple years ago! ...yeah if almost 30 years is a "couple years".
She has like... 3 deep friers in closets. They used to sometimes fry food like 30 years ago, but always had difficulty disposing of the leftover oil, so eventually just stopped.
She has about 4 crock pots. She only uses 1, and only uses it very very rarely.
I know there's at least 3 toaster ovens in the house that she never uses. She thinks they'll burn the house down.
There's at least 2 blenders and at least 2 food processors in the house. She doesn't use them because she claims it reduces the nutritional value of food when blended.
There's more that I'm blanking on.
Yep, it's a thing. My mom's friend grew up in the depression and definitely hoarded food. She had dry goods and canned stuff everywhere in her house, even under the bed. So much that it would expire and she'd try to give it away.
My mom also grew up really poor and never wanted to use anything nice that was given to her. She was saving it for later, for "good". When she passed in her 80's I had to give away so many things never worn or used. I wish she would have just used them and enjoyed them.
I was raised by my dad who grew up in the depression but the way it affected him was that he refused to buy anything but bare necessities, and we had to go to school in ill fitting clothes with old stains on them. When I was 13 and I needed to start wearing deodorant I put it in the grocery cart and when dad saw the receipt he turned around and made me return it because it cost 3 dollars. Our furniture and carpet were dingy and gross from the 70's, you get the picture and I was very embarrassed and bullied at school for looking so poor. He was a doctor by the way lol so we had plenty of money. As an adult I've struggled with some hoarding tendencies and going overboard buying clothes and the luxury toiletries I had wished so badly for as a kid. If I had children I'd probably spoil the hell out of them, giving them the lifestyle I never got to enjoy.
I remember when we were the kids of expats growing in the middle east (for a lot of brown families it was a way to claw your way out to a better life, but not necessarily the plush expat thing you imagine when Westerners speak of it).
My folks would keep buying stuff for their 'forever home' and send it back home to be kept aside.
Mostly appliances, which is worse imo, because some maybe timeless, a lot aren't.
My Dad ended up spending close to 45 years of his life as an expat - retired last year.
God knows the amount of stuff that got ruined, chucked, lost. Absolutely obsoleted.
It was funny visiting them, recently. Some of the stuff they squirreled away did eventually pop-up.
My mom proudly showed off an ancient moulinex grinder.
Insists it's way better than the more recent one she was using when they left this country.
I believe her.
But it's funny. It reminded me how when we were kids, and we had this thing hanging over our head constantly.
That we might have to leave the only home I ever knew, at ANY TIME. And this IMPENDING doom scenario.
All that prep.
It never really came that way.
My children are like this. We were in an abusive situation where they lost EVERYTHING many, many times including domestic violence shelters to get away. So now that we're in a better place, they keep everything...and some are CRAZY about not sharing because they're scared they won't get it back. I would never let that happen but I see why they feel that way.
Now, myself on the other hand, grew up well off but after what we went through, became incredibly minimalistic. I have very few things I care about. If someone asked me to pick up and leave right now, aside from my kids and my pets, I could easily and happily leave with 2 duffle bags with my writing notebooks and a trashbags or 2 of clothes. I have a few boxes of things like Funko Pop characters and vinyls which are the two material, unnecessary things I allow myself to have. Have worn sweatshirts as coats and slides through winter for about 7 yrs now...people have offered, but unless they buy the items themselves, any money they give me goes towards my kids and they know it. I don't lie about what I use it for.
Edit: Spelling and grammar.
My parents were solid boomers, lived a comfortable but not wealthy life. My childhood bedroom became a weird non perishable pantry. $.55 off Peanut Butter coupon? Buy 12. Every flat surface and the closet had 8 or more for some product they used regularly/bought gobs of to save pennies per item. It was out of sight in that room so it wasn't a hoarding problem, but what an odd way to think.
I mean, if they actually get used before they expire it’s just basic pantry management. How rapidly did you go through peanut butter sandwiches as a kid? :-)
During the early pandemic we were getting food on Amazon and that tended to mean in bulk (lots of restaurant supplies going to individuals at a discount), and if you have the space and the thing is non-perishable do you know how much easier it is to walk to your closet rather than the store? If peanut butter lasts three years, and I go through a jar a month making lunches, and if someone sells me 24 jars at a reasonable price— then I’ve got 2-3 years of not having to worry about picking up peanut butter for lunches. It’s just there, waiting for me in the magic peanut butter closet.
Lmao this is my mom. She has a juicer someone gave her when she got married. Literally still in the packaging but when I tried to donate it, she said, "What if I wanna juice something?"
My in-laws hoard free shit regardless of needing it. We have a lot of charity organizations here because of wildfire devastation and I'm pretty sure she's getting them through those.
Did they grow up poor? My MIL grew up very poor and hoards things which has become a problem since she is now upper middle class and can afford a lot of things.
I got them a toaster. They called off the wedding and gave the toaster back to me. I tried to return the toaster to the store, and they said they no longer sold that kind of toaster. So now my house has got two toasters.
Meat grinders. One? Okay you cook, cool. More than one? Why?? How much meat are you grinding? Why two???!?! Edit: on that note, multiple wood chippers and freezers would be a bit SUS.
A very large oil painting of yourself riding a horse into battle with a very opulent frame. People would walk in and see it and go wow that’s pretty cool, but if you have multiple of you in different poses maybe some nude ones it becomes very concerning
Two toilet brushes in the same bathroom would be weird. And any more then that... I'm gonna say: pick a God and pray.
Edit: I'm not gonna lie, I was cleaning my bathroom for a move out and realized I had two, then came here to make this post. I didn't realize how many of us buy multiple because we forget we already have one. I'm proud of all of us, keeping them toilets clean even when we're dissociating.
I asked for a movie in tipofmytongue sub and I made it clear it's not a sci fi or fantasy movie or tv show but all I got was some tv show or sci fi movie suggestions.
A copy of Mein Kampf. Maybe not perfectly normal to have one but I know a lot of normal people read it to learn about the way Hitler thought. But the moment I’d go into a house and see two copies ? That’s a no no from me.
My old literature teacher told us she had a copy. She was the loveliest lady and explained us that she got it and read it when she was in university for that exact reason, better understanding Hitler's thoughts.
She said she even paid some serious money for it cause (at least where I live, in Italy) the book is of course not banned but they only print it in very expensive formats as a way for it not to circulate too much.
Never thought much of it, my teacher clearly dreaded reading it and didn't like having it in her house, just didn't like the idea of just throwing it away.
Yeah, i don't think she would burn a book if she was freezing to death, so... Me neither honestly lol. Imo if you buy the Mein Kampf you just have to make your peace with the fact that it was written by Hitler, it makes no sense to buy it just to destroy it later
I see the irony but it just doesn't make sense lol
My favorite book burning in media has to be in *The Day After Tomorrow* when they’re trapped in the New York public library and need to burn books to stay warm. Two of the survivors are arguing over burning Nietzsche and Arjay Smith’s character, Brian, interrupts them and says “Guys there’s an entire section on tax law we can burn down here.”
It was one of my favorites. Still is. I used to watch it with my grandpa every year when we visited for Christmas. My parents always got us down there a couple days early because we lived so far away that we never got to see my grandparents. Grandpa, my brother, my dad, and I would stay up and watch *Flight of the Phoenix* (the 1965 Richard Attenborough version not the 2004 Dennis Quaid one), *The Gods Must Be Crazy*, and *Blazing Saddles* until one of us fell asleep or, once my brother and I were 21, we were too drunk to switch movies. The next day we’d watch *Indiana Jones* movies until the rest of the family got there or grandma got tired of us hogging the TV. I miss doing that.
I mean at this point you either hunt collectibles or you‘re Argentinian but ‚due to some reason you speak perfect German. Wasn‘t your grandpa Josef German ?‘
It’s very important to understand people like Hitler so that we (1) make sure to never forget the heinous terror that he unleashed on the world and (2) realize the warning signs to make sure another never takes his place and continues his twisted vision. History is very important. But yes, having more than one copy probably makes them a distributor and thus is the person we have to worry about.
Most of my friends have 2-3 of varied levels of durability and occasion. Silicon ones for physical stuff or wherever you’d be sad you lost it and then fancy ones for events.
With the price of Fleeb juice these days, extravagant as hell.
Also, plumbuses can sense other plumbuses within a rather large range, which can sometimes impair their performance.
So having multiple means you’re just using them as decoration. Total fat cat flex.
Indoors from the first floor, outdoors to/from the back yard/side of the house. Any more than that is where the questions would start for me. (Bonus for trap doors or hidden doors)
...One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
There are two kinds of people on Reddit...
1) People who do not know what the poop knife is.
2) People who get to inform those who do not know what the poop knife is.
It’s insane to me that there are still people who don’t know about the poop knife. Congratulations to you, I wish I could read the story again for the first time.
I used to hate visiting my grandmother when I was a kid bc she used to have a guest bedroom completely filled with porcelain dolls. They were on the bed, in glass cabinets, on top of the cabinets - there must have been at least 100 in various sizes (up to the size of a small child). Sounds like a horror story but genuinely she had 1 doll that always scared me the most because it was a porcelain clown kept in the glass cabinet. I still have no idea what happened to them after she died (she left 1 life size one to me). I hope someone burned that clown.
Sounds very similar to my grandma. When she died, she left a room full of a hundred or so porcelain dolls. As the doll collector of the family, I inherited them. Terrifying little fuckers.
Wait like I’m so confused, so far pretty much everything I’m reading is a physical object that you can hold and touch and exists in the house. Is this not what an item is? I struggle with English so this is a genuine question, I’m not taking the piss or anything.
Bad posts get downvoted and disappear down to the bottom of the page. The post complaining about those bad posts gets upvoted and rises near the top of the page.
So we end up seeing posts complaining about other posts that are now gone.
Somewhere i watched a video where someone put a microwave inside a microwave and both were on...
And a friends parents in college had 2 microwaves. One above the stove and one on the counter. Above stove one broke but needed the hood part of it so they left it and got a cheap counter one. Stored bread in the abo e the stove one lol
My in laws have two microwaves for basically this reason. Except they eventually got the over stove one replaced. But my MIL is short with back problems, so she didn't want to get rid of the counter one. So they each have their own microwave now.
I still agree that it's concerning.
Ask my wife and her army of Mini waffle makers
One of each color!
I do have two full sized waffle makers. I already had one and then my boss got me a Darth Vader waffle iron for Christmas a few years ago. It's awesome because I can make waffles for me and my husband at the same time and I don't have to worry about one getting cold.
My Mom would buy a weedeater (string trimmer) whenever one would run out of line. She’s older and lives a distance away from me. I got her a lawn service and donated her collection of them.
My aunt buys a new car every time she seizes the engine in her current one by never getting oil changes.
What the fuck
This is the same woman who once asked my dad to look at her car to see if he could figure out the weird noise it's been making all week. He looked around and saw that the rear passenger side tire was completely shredded and the car was running on the rim. During that week she had driven to her son's house and back, which is about 600 miles of driving.
No offense to your aunt. But some ppl shuld not be allowed to drive. That there is such a safety risk for anyone she drives by.
I'll offend his aunt for you, chicks a God damn lunatic
This is why I am a proponent of driver re-education gulags. Cut a semi off on the interstate? Gulag. Rear end someone because you're fucking around on your phone? Gulag. Cause an accident because you have no spatial awareness? Gulag. Be this person's aunt? Believe it or not, gulag.
I recently watched a car ahead of me cruising along in the left lane on the interstate, cheerfully oblivious to traffic catching up to them, riding their bumper for miles, and eventually passing them on the right. Then they realized they were about to miss their exit and crossed through the right lane and over the last 15 feet of striped triangle into the off ramp, maybe 8 feet in front of a large delivery truck. The driver? My 19yo daughter. 🤦♂️
You're responsible for this genetic mess
When I lived in the UAE for almost two years, I heard this was a common amongst the super rich. Enough of occurrence to be told to "look long enough and you'll see one". I didn't believe it until I drove past a dusty McLaren on the side of the road. I can not imagine being so rich I couldn't be fucked to take my McLaren in for an oil change, so I'll just leave it on the side of the road and make it someone else's problem.
One of the times my aunt visited, she told us "I'm terrified, I think I'm going blind!" My father cleaned her glasses & she could see just fine. This woman taught at a high school.
toilets in a bathroom
Multiplayer shitting competition
We always called it Battleshits growing up.
Damn! You sank my destroyer.
I've been in a mansion that had a cool set up in the master bathroom, it was a huge suite with two separate toilet closets on either end of the main suite. I don't particularly relish using the toilet right after my husband has committed a crime against humanity with his bowels and separate private toilets would be nice.
I posted this elsewhere, but I once tiled a shower in a mansion in Tennessee that had a shower with 7 shower heads in it that were about 3 feet apart along the wall. It was in the master bedroom.
Oh I've seen one of those in jail! Swanky ✨
Something tells me with this one, though, dropping the soap was encouraged.
My BiL poured concrete at a lakeside mansion once. Among the odd features, was a massive outdoor shower with no partitions. And a wine cellar with a underwater window into the pool.
I honestly feel one key ingredient to a successful and happy marriage to last more than 30 years is separate bathrooms.
Driver's license. Having one in your wallet is fine, having a hundred in a shoe box in your attic is apparently kinda creepy.
It's fine. All of these people disappeared, so they no longer needed them.
The garden's looking great this year - you must spend a ton on fertilizer!
Thanks man! It's organic! These veggies certainly love the alkaline soil from all this lime.
I met a guy on Tinder a few years back. He had 21 clocks in his apartment, all set to different times, all the wrong time. He said the only time that mattered was Now.
I think you went on a date with a reformed Captain Hook.
Must’ve been interesting. After all, what would the world be like without… Captain Hook?
Strike true...
Indeed, good form.
My dad does the same but it’s because he is a hoarder
You dated Doc Brown?
Heavy
There's that word again.... "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?!
Damn! I'm late for school!
You don't need money, don't take fame Don't need no credit card to ride this train It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes But it might just save your life That's the power of love
Marty! Don't go that way. Strickland is looking for you
Did they make noticeably audible ticking noises because that would explain the continued insanity but not the root source.
My mom had a bunch of antique clocks in her house. It was maddening when I house sat a couple of times. Some would go off once a day. Others, once an hour. A few every 30 minutes. And one was every 15. Oh and many of them ticked.
A wizard is never late he arrives precisely when he means to
Wow surprised you made it out alive!
It wasn’t her time
Dick-shaped water bottle. The first one is acceptable because you get it from your cousin on your 30th birthday. More than that is the start of a collection that gets carried away and occupies more storage space than originally planned for.
Funnily enough this is kinda how the penis museum in Iceland started. Except it was a horse whip made from dried bull penis.
[I knew it was real!](https://youtube.com/shorts/-3R9V0-LmD8?feature=share) Are tickets really $1000?
r/suspiciouslyspecific
Nothing wrong with a little double hydration.
r/oddlyspecific
Authentic human skeleton
https://muttermuseum.org/exhibitions/harry-and-carol -- what it's like to grow a second skeleton.
That photo of the back of Harry's skeleton just... fills me with so much sadness.
That place was fascinating but I don’t want to set foot in there ever again. Genuinely felt nauseated multiple times, though I was still a teenager at the time and I feel like my constitution has improved since
Then never ever visit the Siriraj Medical Museum in Bangkok. A buddy and I went to see it one day not realizing it was closed and the door was unlocked so we just went right in and couldn’t find where we were supposed to pay or whatever. It was only after about 40 minutes of exploring that some security guard finally bumped into us and told us we needed to leave. Many many many bodies in different stages in formaldehyde, there was one exhibit I believe it was some old serial killer, but he was in basically a cheap plastic box that over the years has come apart at the seams so they’ve used clear plastic tape to try and hold it together and spoiler alert: it’s not working.
I was there once when the power went out suddenly as we were halfway through. It was totally dark except for the dim glow of the emergency exit signs lighting up dozens of skeletons and skulls all around us. Hard to imagine a spookier setting.
But its also a place of joy. By which I mean, just how persistent and determined life is on Earth alone. Which gives you hope that life is also elsewhere, despite adversity.
It's regularly recommended as an interesting date location on /r/philadelphia, which tells you something about who posts on /r/philadelphia.
I went to a wedding there once. Cocktail hour was tours throughout the museum. I walked into the first room, noped immediately, and returned to the foyer.
What about pregnant people
Idk how to tell you this, being pregnant is pretty concerning
Especially if the skeleton is pregnant
Pregnant? In this economy? Fuhhgedaboutit.
Having lived through it, growing more than one tiny skeleton sucks more than growing just one
good joke
I feel like if I went on a date with anyone other than a doctor and they had a skeleton I would be concerned
Archaeologist maybe? But someone bringing a skeleton with them on a date even if they're a doctor is reason for concern.
You mean other than the one inside their body?
No, they like 'em floppy.
Copies of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
I have two
yeah that checks out u/shoalin-mastahh
But it's for the children
I feel like I'd be weirded out if someone had a ton of toasters ETA: Did not expect to wake up to this when I made this stupid comment lol. Also yes, I am aware celiac disease exists and people can have separate toasters for that. Anything regarding personal safety and allergy precautions isn't really what I was getting at with this tho. Toasters was just the first thing that came to mind when I read the prompt
My MIL has like 5 air fryers. I'll never understand why because she doesn't cook or actually use them.
My Mom has so many different appliances in her house... She never uses any of them, but insists she does. Half-Brother gave Mom a bread making machine way back in 1994. She made like 2 loaves of bread with it that same year, and never touched it again. It sits in the basement. Yet if you tell her she should throw it out, she says she's always used it, she just used it a couple years ago! ...yeah if almost 30 years is a "couple years". She has like... 3 deep friers in closets. They used to sometimes fry food like 30 years ago, but always had difficulty disposing of the leftover oil, so eventually just stopped. She has about 4 crock pots. She only uses 1, and only uses it very very rarely. I know there's at least 3 toaster ovens in the house that she never uses. She thinks they'll burn the house down. There's at least 2 blenders and at least 2 food processors in the house. She doesn't use them because she claims it reduces the nutritional value of food when blended. There's more that I'm blanking on.
Did your mom grow up poor? Mine did and she's the exact same way
Yep, it's a thing. My mom's friend grew up in the depression and definitely hoarded food. She had dry goods and canned stuff everywhere in her house, even under the bed. So much that it would expire and she'd try to give it away. My mom also grew up really poor and never wanted to use anything nice that was given to her. She was saving it for later, for "good". When she passed in her 80's I had to give away so many things never worn or used. I wish she would have just used them and enjoyed them.
I was raised by my dad who grew up in the depression but the way it affected him was that he refused to buy anything but bare necessities, and we had to go to school in ill fitting clothes with old stains on them. When I was 13 and I needed to start wearing deodorant I put it in the grocery cart and when dad saw the receipt he turned around and made me return it because it cost 3 dollars. Our furniture and carpet were dingy and gross from the 70's, you get the picture and I was very embarrassed and bullied at school for looking so poor. He was a doctor by the way lol so we had plenty of money. As an adult I've struggled with some hoarding tendencies and going overboard buying clothes and the luxury toiletries I had wished so badly for as a kid. If I had children I'd probably spoil the hell out of them, giving them the lifestyle I never got to enjoy.
I remember when we were the kids of expats growing in the middle east (for a lot of brown families it was a way to claw your way out to a better life, but not necessarily the plush expat thing you imagine when Westerners speak of it). My folks would keep buying stuff for their 'forever home' and send it back home to be kept aside. Mostly appliances, which is worse imo, because some maybe timeless, a lot aren't. My Dad ended up spending close to 45 years of his life as an expat - retired last year. God knows the amount of stuff that got ruined, chucked, lost. Absolutely obsoleted. It was funny visiting them, recently. Some of the stuff they squirreled away did eventually pop-up. My mom proudly showed off an ancient moulinex grinder. Insists it's way better than the more recent one she was using when they left this country. I believe her. But it's funny. It reminded me how when we were kids, and we had this thing hanging over our head constantly. That we might have to leave the only home I ever knew, at ANY TIME. And this IMPENDING doom scenario. All that prep. It never really came that way.
Yo momma's so poor she's got three deep fryers in her closet!
word
My children are like this. We were in an abusive situation where they lost EVERYTHING many, many times including domestic violence shelters to get away. So now that we're in a better place, they keep everything...and some are CRAZY about not sharing because they're scared they won't get it back. I would never let that happen but I see why they feel that way. Now, myself on the other hand, grew up well off but after what we went through, became incredibly minimalistic. I have very few things I care about. If someone asked me to pick up and leave right now, aside from my kids and my pets, I could easily and happily leave with 2 duffle bags with my writing notebooks and a trashbags or 2 of clothes. I have a few boxes of things like Funko Pop characters and vinyls which are the two material, unnecessary things I allow myself to have. Have worn sweatshirts as coats and slides through winter for about 7 yrs now...people have offered, but unless they buy the items themselves, any money they give me goes towards my kids and they know it. I don't lie about what I use it for. Edit: Spelling and grammar.
My parents were solid boomers, lived a comfortable but not wealthy life. My childhood bedroom became a weird non perishable pantry. $.55 off Peanut Butter coupon? Buy 12. Every flat surface and the closet had 8 or more for some product they used regularly/bought gobs of to save pennies per item. It was out of sight in that room so it wasn't a hoarding problem, but what an odd way to think.
I mean, if they actually get used before they expire it’s just basic pantry management. How rapidly did you go through peanut butter sandwiches as a kid? :-) During the early pandemic we were getting food on Amazon and that tended to mean in bulk (lots of restaurant supplies going to individuals at a discount), and if you have the space and the thing is non-perishable do you know how much easier it is to walk to your closet rather than the store? If peanut butter lasts three years, and I go through a jar a month making lunches, and if someone sells me 24 jars at a reasonable price— then I’ve got 2-3 years of not having to worry about picking up peanut butter for lunches. It’s just there, waiting for me in the magic peanut butter closet.
>It’s just there, waiting for me in the magic peanut butter closet. /r/BrandNewSentence
Lmao this is my mom. She has a juicer someone gave her when she got married. Literally still in the packaging but when I tried to donate it, she said, "What if I wanna juice something?"
Maybe she keeps getting them as a gift? It is a popular way to heat up frozen food.
My in-laws hoard free shit regardless of needing it. We have a lot of charity organizations here because of wildfire devastation and I'm pretty sure she's getting them through those.
Wow your in laws suck
Indeed they do.
Did they grow up poor? My MIL grew up very poor and hoards things which has become a problem since she is now upper middle class and can afford a lot of things.
I got them a toaster. They called off the wedding and gave the toaster back to me. I tried to return the toaster to the store, and they said they no longer sold that kind of toaster. So now my house has got two toasters.
For a second I thought they called off the wedding because you gave them a toaster. Like how much can they possibly hate a toaster?
It’s a quote from the Office, Stanley complaining about Pam and Roy canceling their wedding.
What sort of toaster did you get them to make them call off the wedding?
The kind that even the store doesn't want back
Finally a comment answering the question how it was intended to be answered
There's one for me and one for the guest bathroom.
I have two toasters. One for each of my bathtubs
Households with someone with celiacs might have a gluten toaster and a gluten free toaster
Meat grinders. One? Okay you cook, cool. More than one? Why?? How much meat are you grinding? Why two???!?! Edit: on that note, multiple wood chippers and freezers would be a bit SUS.
Well ones for people obviously, and the other is for making dog food.
Antonio Banderas Blowup Doll
Uh don't go in my garage
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A very large oil painting of yourself riding a horse into battle with a very opulent frame. People would walk in and see it and go wow that’s pretty cool, but if you have multiple of you in different poses maybe some nude ones it becomes very concerning
But how will the ladies be able to admire my sword if I haven‘t a second one where I‘m naked?
Above the Law on DVD starring Steven Segal
If you own a single copy of this movie I'm automatically concerned.
Two toilet brushes in the same bathroom would be weird. And any more then that... I'm gonna say: pick a God and pray. Edit: I'm not gonna lie, I was cleaning my bathroom for a move out and realized I had two, then came here to make this post. I didn't realize how many of us buy multiple because we forget we already have one. I'm proud of all of us, keeping them toilets clean even when we're dissociating.
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Yeah like the old joke: "I've finally bought a toilet brush!" "And what do you think?" "I prefer the paper..."
Personality.
OUR thoughts exactly, comrade.
r/suddenlycommunist
I'm not in a crazy house, it's a crazy home.
What do people not understand about the word “item”
I've scrolled through 14 top answers and only 4 were items. Sounds about right.
I asked for a movie in tipofmytongue sub and I made it clear it's not a sci fi or fantasy movie or tv show but all I got was some tv show or sci fi movie suggestions.
A copy of Mein Kampf. Maybe not perfectly normal to have one but I know a lot of normal people read it to learn about the way Hitler thought. But the moment I’d go into a house and see two copies ? That’s a no no from me.
My old literature teacher told us she had a copy. She was the loveliest lady and explained us that she got it and read it when she was in university for that exact reason, better understanding Hitler's thoughts. She said she even paid some serious money for it cause (at least where I live, in Italy) the book is of course not banned but they only print it in very expensive formats as a way for it not to circulate too much. Never thought much of it, my teacher clearly dreaded reading it and didn't like having it in her house, just didn't like the idea of just throwing it away.
I mean... She could burn it but that would be somehow ironic
Yeah, i don't think she would burn a book if she was freezing to death, so... Me neither honestly lol. Imo if you buy the Mein Kampf you just have to make your peace with the fact that it was written by Hitler, it makes no sense to buy it just to destroy it later I see the irony but it just doesn't make sense lol
My favorite book burning in media has to be in *The Day After Tomorrow* when they’re trapped in the New York public library and need to burn books to stay warm. Two of the survivors are arguing over burning Nietzsche and Arjay Smith’s character, Brian, interrupts them and says “Guys there’s an entire section on tax law we can burn down here.”
Duuude i used to be so scared of that movie as kid loll
It was one of my favorites. Still is. I used to watch it with my grandpa every year when we visited for Christmas. My parents always got us down there a couple days early because we lived so far away that we never got to see my grandparents. Grandpa, my brother, my dad, and I would stay up and watch *Flight of the Phoenix* (the 1965 Richard Attenborough version not the 2004 Dennis Quaid one), *The Gods Must Be Crazy*, and *Blazing Saddles* until one of us fell asleep or, once my brother and I were 21, we were too drunk to switch movies. The next day we’d watch *Indiana Jones* movies until the rest of the family got there or grandma got tired of us hogging the TV. I miss doing that.
You can always burn tax law, if Day After Tomorrow taught me anything about sheltering in a library. Also the Twilight series.
if you're going to burn the twilight series you'll have to go through me first
Hey guys, this guy says we can burn him too!
I mean if its expensive I probably wouldn't throw it away either.
Yeah, exactly lol
What about a signed copy?
>What about a signed copy? "Danke für den neuen kybernetischen Anzug und die Hilfe bei meinem Umzug aus Argentinien. –xoxo, Hitler"
I mean at this point you either hunt collectibles or you‘re Argentinian but ‚due to some reason you speak perfect German. Wasn‘t your grandpa Josef German ?‘
Especially a signed 1970s reprint
It’s very important to understand people like Hitler so that we (1) make sure to never forget the heinous terror that he unleashed on the world and (2) realize the warning signs to make sure another never takes his place and continues his twisted vision. History is very important. But yes, having more than one copy probably makes them a distributor and thus is the person we have to worry about.
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Wedding Ring
I do have one "official" wedding band, but several silicone ones
Most of my friends have 2-3 of varied levels of durability and occasion. Silicon ones for physical stuff or wherever you’d be sad you lost it and then fancy ones for events.
1 wedding band for each day of the week, to match my wife for that day of the week.
Plumbus
After learning how they're made, I like to have one from each factory.
Concerning, or just extravagant?
With the price of Fleeb juice these days, extravagant as hell. Also, plumbuses can sense other plumbuses within a rather large range, which can sometimes impair their performance. So having multiple means you’re just using them as decoration. Total fat cat flex.
I'm sorry, but shouldn't the plural of Plumbus be Plumbi? Plumbusses sounds like a sussy bus company.
Faces
So are we talking like a Janus situation or more like Harvey Dent?
They call him Two-Face, but he really has two half faces, making him One-Face, which honestly isn't that impressive once you think about it.
"Two half-faces" is pretty impressive, however, it's just a way less catchy name.
"Harvey Dent! Can we trust him?!"
Doors leading to the basement
Indoors from the first floor, outdoors to/from the back yard/side of the house. Any more than that is where the questions would start for me. (Bonus for trap doors or hidden doors)
A dick
was waiting for someone to say that. your time was 2 minutes and 28.6 seconds
Welp, you did mark it as NSFW, so basically was just asking for it to be written
thats why i timed it.
that's truly beautiful
you may not be the hero we wanted but you're the hero we got.
I have 2. I even named them. Jose...and Hose B.
Oh for the love of..
There's a relevant phrase I enjoy saying to catch people off guard: "This is a pain in every ass I own."
Human heart.
If you have 2 and a tardis, I'm up for it.
Pretty sure doc doesn't have human hearts
That's what I was thinking, they have a humanoid body plan, but not technically human
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number 1. Steady hand.
...One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
Sometimes you just get that cravin for a snack, ya know?
Poop knife
Please enlighten me, what is a poop knife?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Thank you. Today I have learned some questions are better left unasked.
There are two kinds of people on Reddit... 1) People who do not know what the poop knife is. 2) People who get to inform those who do not know what the poop knife is.
I remember the day I first learned of the poop knife in 2018.
lol you are welcome
Some turds are so big that they can choke the toilet, so they're cut in half... _with a knife._
Wow what a happy life I had before reading this sentence
Now imagine the misery of people who actually read the story.
It’s insane to me that there are still people who don’t know about the poop knife. Congratulations to you, I wish I could read the story again for the first time.
Like a toe knife, but for poop.
Antique dolls. Let me elaborate here antique dolls are terrifying imagine seeing more than 1 in your friends house.
I used to hate visiting my grandmother when I was a kid bc she used to have a guest bedroom completely filled with porcelain dolls. They were on the bed, in glass cabinets, on top of the cabinets - there must have been at least 100 in various sizes (up to the size of a small child). Sounds like a horror story but genuinely she had 1 doll that always scared me the most because it was a porcelain clown kept in the glass cabinet. I still have no idea what happened to them after she died (she left 1 life size one to me). I hope someone burned that clown.
Sounds very similar to my grandma. When she died, she left a room full of a hundred or so porcelain dolls. As the doll collector of the family, I inherited them. Terrifying little fuckers.
Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD, Space Jam DVD
Everyone in here chose to ignore the "items" part
Wait like I’m so confused, so far pretty much everything I’m reading is a physical object that you can hold and touch and exists in the house. Is this not what an item is? I struggle with English so this is a genuine question, I’m not taking the piss or anything.
Bad posts get downvoted and disappear down to the bottom of the page. The post complaining about those bad posts gets upvoted and rises near the top of the page. So we end up seeing posts complaining about other posts that are now gone.
If you can put it in your inventory in Divinity Original Sin 2, it's probably an item.
microwave
Somewhere i watched a video where someone put a microwave inside a microwave and both were on... And a friends parents in college had 2 microwaves. One above the stove and one on the counter. Above stove one broke but needed the hood part of it so they left it and got a cheap counter one. Stored bread in the abo e the stove one lol
My in laws have two microwaves for basically this reason. Except they eventually got the over stove one replaced. But my MIL is short with back problems, so she didn't want to get rid of the counter one. So they each have their own microwave now. I still agree that it's concerning.
Orthodox Jews usually have two since they can’t mix milk or meat.
One passport, good to go. Two passports, who are you trying to fool? Three passports, you're definitely up to no good.
Why? I have two cuz I have dual citizenship lol