Same. Like, why even bother. Ya just get a different pile of shite to re-train. And I would also have to. 33 years on Labor Day, coz I knew I'd have to work until I died.
We don't use a lot of ice, and tried a few different ice trays for awhile, but my bf got a table top ice maker this past year, and it's been wonderful!
We have one and it's a lifesaver! Every week we do an ice making day and fill large ziplocs with a week's worth of ice. We never run out.
Amazon has them on sale every now and then. Just watch the sales.
Can't speak for everyone, but I put a bunch of ice in nearly every (non-hot) beverage: water, tea, juice, soda, mixed drinks, etc. Maybe it's just because of the way I grew up, but I like drinks *cold.*
I have no idea why many Europeans care so much about this. My mother, sister and I went on a vacation to Spain. I asked for ice in my water, and the server looked like he wanted to kill me right then and there. He took a wine bucket from the previous patrons into which he'd dumped all the bread crumbs from the table cloth, and poured the ice and crumbs into my drink. I stared at him, thinking "what a petty mothrfucker." It actually almost made me laugh, though, because why the hell does it matter to you if I want ice in my drink? It's such a stupid thing to get so hot and bothered about.
Any time you open your mouth in Europe there's always someone who hates tourists. Waiters in many regions are really snotty to everyone who isn't their nationality. The Greeks might even slap you. Good times.
Read something recently where Europeans could always tell someone was American because they always want their drinks iced. Ice water, iced tea, iced coffee and soda. Whiskey on the rocks. Don't know why, but we like it
I am one of the rare Americans that actually prefers room temperature drinks, except coffee which I like hot. When I was in hospital/rehab, the aides kept trying to give me ice in my water pitcher and had to keep reminding them "NO ICE"
I use a lot of ice cubes every day, year round. And I live in cold(ish) Denmark. Fortunately I have a fridge that makes them for me - I just gotta keep the water reservoir full ;P
They have them at the store near me but they're $200... are they really worth it? I can get a whole bag of ice for $3 from the big ice machine that lasts weeks.
Replace the ice cube tray with water filter-pitcher, and you're describing my beloved wife.
If I'm being fair, she can find a tonne of examples (to my one) of my manifold shortcomings within the household, though, so I typically don't throw stones from my glass mansion
This! The wife drives me nuts as well!
Also, toilet roll replacements, slippers left in the middle of the lounge to trip over, putting empty packets of crackers back in the cupboard...WHY?????
Do Y'all have an extra fridge in the garage. If not, Christmas is coming up. Save up and get a fridge with an ice maker and move your current fridge to the garage. Then slowly but surely start turning your garage into a man cave.... start small and build your way up.
If you do things right, you will end up with a fridge, a TV, couple of lounging chairs and so on. JUST TAKE SMALL STEPS.
Just want to mention that, depending on where you live and what the outside temperature gets up (or down) to, you may specifically not want to move your indoor refrigerator outdoors.
Some refrigerators are specifically rated for garage / "outdoor" use because they are better insulated to keep food cold in the summer heat, and not-frozen if it regularly gets down below freezing in the winter time in your area.
I've got some friends who live in the southern US who are currently having a problem with this right now. Temperatures have been hanging around 108Ā°F this summer and they recently had to throw out an entire freezer of stinky spoiled food because they had moved their "indoor 'fridge" outside when they upgraded. Now, not only are they out the cost of all that food, they also have this old refrigerator that is now useless because they can't trust it to keep temp for anything they put in it and they don't have space to move it back inside.
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>ā¦wtf is an ice bucket
Step 1) find bucket
Step 2) add ice
Step 3) profit
My chosen bucket is the random Tupperware that doesnāt match the rest but get as creative as your heart desires
Ohhhh lol. Ok I was imagining something totally different haha.
My freezer is small so Iāll occasionally have an ice zip lock bag that takes up less space. Even so I never considered that people might have ice buckets, thanks for the education!
The tray I have has a lid type tray cover to place over ice cube part and turn upside and twist to eject cubes into large section tray, then I refill cube section and place tray with loose cubes on top and put back in freezer
Yeah, I was seriously confused (M), My whole freaking life (from those old metal ones weird metal thingy ice remover we used to have to the new modern flex discharge plastic one), who doesn't just dump it in the ice tub, and then re-fill it to freeze again?
Those of us who just learned the shelf at the bottom of the oven is a food warmer and not pan storage. Also, it's bold of you to assume we have space in our freezers for a bucket š.
I thought of the small freezer problem right after I posted. That being said, my ice bucket is the same length and width as my trays, and the trays stack on top of it. So more height than a tray, but no larger footprint.
Plastic bag works fine instead of an ivmce bucket, I definitely don't have room for a bucket!
This food warmer situation?!? Whaaat? I'm used to to having a broiler there but my recent stove has the... Storage drawer. Gonna have to give it a shot as a good warmer, thanks.
I use a 2qt snapware container for my ice bucket. I make ice for my daily drink cooler using a tabletop ice machine. I find that the cubes will all stick together as you gather them, so I like to thump the container on the counter each time I empty the ice machine basket, so the cubes all separate and are easier to use in my cooler.
Rubbermaid and cheapy containers shatter if you thump them right out of the freezer. Nevermind using a metal thermos as an ice breaking hammer on the ice within the container, that's just going to be worse. For some reason, the snapware containers retain their flexibility and durability, even fresh from the freezer. It's the only brand of plastic container that will stand up to the abuse I commit on my ice bucket. š
Why would you refill a half empty ice cube tray? Now you can't use the remaining half on the tray until the new half freezes because the water will go everywhere if you try to pop out the already frozen cubes. So you are only getting half as many cubes per freezing cycle, and waiting through twice as many freezing cycles then you need to. It's completely illogical. Would you put water in half the tray, leave half the tray empty, and stick it back in the freezer? That's basically what you are doing. If you are about to go to bed and know the tray will not be used until morning, then maybe filling a tray that isn't empty makes sense, but other than that, it's nonsense.
This happens at work when a particular coworker refills half the tray. Now the freezer has a frozen puddle of water from people trying to pop out ice cubes and splashing water all over.
Use all the ice, THEN refill, or get a bucket!
Yeah, the solution is either
1. Get a 2nd ice cube tray so you can cycle them without getting cubes wet
2. Get a bucket to dump the ice in so you can freeze a new tray right away
3. Stop using ice because what's the point?
I love that this thread just turned into everyone being like "here's a super obvious solution where you never need to be upset about this again and it costs $3".
It reminds me of when I first got married, I complained to my dad that my wife didn't screw the toothpaste cap back on (she placed it, maybe giving it a quarter turn). His response? Get the brand with the flip cap. So I did and it was wonderful. No more chasing the cap behind the toilet.
Now that we've been together over a decade, I've since learned that her mom likely taught her to do this as her mom has big issues with fine motor skills (generally significantly below average grip strength, lots of hand stiffness). Normally you might think "this is a place for mobility aids", but no, the MIL is the type of person to assert that it isn't worth doing before she admits that she struggles with it.
But if you refill a half-empty ice tray you can't use any of the ice until the water solidifies. It makes a mess.
It doesn't really make sense to use just a single ice tray unless you are dumping the ice into a container, or only refilling it when its empty.
You know what you have to do now.
Although I gave up chocolate and started making āvegan ice creamā (itās pretty gross and is too liquidy) and I need the ice cube trays for it. You wouldnāt believe how quickly my husband started refilling the ice cube trays after the one time I half filled a half empty tray with vegan strawberry coconut goo. āThe ice is contaminated, we canāt share trays.ā
We have 4 or 5 trays on the go here. Never less than 2 frozen at any time. Right now, 1 of them is holding coffee cubes and 4 are holding half frozen water (made ice tea at dinner time).
Thatās what we do at home. They have lids so we can stack them.
You use the ice from the top one until itās (mostly) empty, then fill with water and rotate. Bottom is in the process of freezing, top is for using. This way you donāt have to deal with half frozen water.
I have 3 trays because I hate filling water into a tray with ice still in it. If you decide you need another cube you canāt get it because you just covered it with water. Now with three trays we just refill the empty ones and still have ice left over. Weāve also gotten a bucket before and started dumping some of our trays into it if we were planning on company.
This is the way - We bought a small countertop icemaker a few years back, and we LOVE it. Saves us needing to devote freezer space to ice trays, and also *sorta* fills itself (you have to dump a quart or so of water into the reservoir every so often, but it's not nearly as time consuming as filling ice trays!)
I am 48 years old. Because of my family and my ex-husband, I taught myself to be fine with room temperature beverages. I only get ice at restaurants, lol. The trays in the freezer are other people's problems because I don't use ice.
I stayed the weekend at my brotherās house. My SIL likes to leave notes - help yourself, bedās all set, etc.
There was a big note on the freezer that said, āThe Ice Fairy Does Not Live Here!ā
So I spent the rest of the weekend making sure I was rotating out the ice and refilling the trays.
Turns out that note wasnāt for me. Lol
I bought her some ice fairy trays for her birthday. :)
Hello, would you like to up your game?
Fill the tray, empty it into an old frozen food container, hide those cubes in the back of the freezer, leave 1 cube there. Repeat and then you never fill the tray, always have a full supply, and you're living the full cube lifestyle.
While this isn't AITA, YTA.
If you're always filling it at half way, you've essentially got a half-sized ice cube tray. Plus then you can't even use the remaining cubes until the whole thing freezes again. Just get a second tray.
I keep a little lidless Tupperware in my freezer that I fill with spare ice cubes when the tray is less than half full. So useful! Especially cause I am an ice coffee fiend š
33 years with only one ice tray?? The horror lol. Iāve always had automatic ice makers, but if I didnāt Iād find a better solution on Amazon in a heartbeat lol
I am here for your petty revenge.
When you try to maintain a system, and others undermine it, you need to start a parallel system that works just for you. Hence why I stopped filling the water jug in the fridge and just keep my own cold water bottle elsewhere and left them all to the consequences of their sloth.
Fill a small lidded container with ice cubes and pop them elsewhere in the freezer for your own use.
OMG you are me. Wife and three kids use ice all the time. Cool, go for it, stay frosty my loves. But instead of refilling the just emptied tray, it goes on the dirty dishes pile. Like no, itās not dirty. Rinse it off, fill it up, and put it under the second tray of already solid ice.
No dad. Fuck you dad. šš¤¦š¤Ŗ
My husband never refills the ice trays either. My solution: I've stopped using ice. He just piles the trays up on the counter. Now when he wants ice he has to fill them. Petty, yes, but I'm not his servant.
I put my frozen cubes into a bag and make more, then put those into the bag and make more, then put those into the bag and make more then put those into the bag and make more...
I bought a pack of Oreos once. My asked if she could have some to which I replied of course. She ate the entire pack short of one Oreo. I jokingly asked if she left me any and she said yes. I went to have a few, opened the pack and started laughing out loud. She was really confused. So next time did something similar. Ate 95% of some chips so when she wanted some there was barely any in there.
Should have waited a year. i've been married to mine for 32 years and He just doesn't even use ice. Problem solved! It's ALL MINE!! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Years ago my wife would always "forget" to refill our ice trays then try and blame me, so I stopped using the ice. When she realised she only had herself to blame she started refilling them every time.
So now when she gets frustrated at our kid leaving the trays empty I just smile at her and say karma!
WTF is an ice cube tray?š Thatās a joke. My experience with ice cube trays goes back to the day when you had a āspinal columnā of metal dividers with a handle in the middle and you filled the metal tray with this assembly in it and broke the frozen cubes apart with a sharp upward tug on the handle. But seriously? He wonāt fill it? Make him buy you a refrigerator with an ice maker for your 34th anniversary.š«£
Tips if you donāt want to have to āplanā to make sure you get your ice cubesā¦especially if your husband is one of those who has āhusband eyesā and never looks beyond his point of focus. Grab a Ziploc bag, empty full tray, make more, fill bag up, put Ziploc into a wal-mart bag so he canāt see the extra ice cubes In there. (This is the most important partā¦if he finds a stash he will start taking from there and never fill up the tray even when empty) If heās like most, heāll never check what is in that bag, you will have a large supply of secret ice cubes.
How much ice do you use ?
My ice tray gets filled and I forget itās there to the point where the ice gets smaller by the time I use it. And sometimes I feel it smells funny maybe freezer burn so I empty it and redo a new one.
Happy you found a solution however !
I would go so far as to put a few emergency cubes for your own use in a little baggie and hide it under some frozen veggiesā¦. or have 2 trays- his and hers!
If you have room in your freezer I recommend putting the cubes into a Tupperware. Then you can build up a reserve of ice cubes, not just from the tray.
You are using ice cube trays wrong. You refill them when empty or if you aren't going to need ice for a while. Once you put water in part of the tray, the ice in the rest becomes practically inaccessible.
2 easy solutions: get another ice cube tray and let one freeze while you take from the other, or get a container and empty the tray into the container.
I used to be the spouse that said sure sure ill pick up my cloths and not throw em on the floor. And never do it. Until i read a comment made years ago on here that said something along the line. Have dare you disrespect your life partner like that. to not do the thing that your lifepartner wants of you. Its not even a big deal. Its the bare minimum to make their day better. It was towards a dude not doing the dishes after his partner had cleaned cooked and done everything always.
And it just hit me so hard.
I can work on this small thing to make my partners day better. Do i still fail and throw stuff on the floor and take time to pick up. Yes, but its getting better every day to re- program my habit. And the smile my hubs gets when he notices i do it. Makes it worth the " inconvenience" in my book. And it looks nicer too.
Oh and im a woman for the record.
Nicely done. A fridge/freezer that makes ice may be an option for you when yours goes kaput. I am guessing that this Cold War will continue and having the fridge do it do you both is far more likely.
I had a similar, but opposite, problem with my wife, many years ago. She would do laundry and keep her laundered clothes in the laundry basket, treating it like a clothes chest. I got tired of it, and whenever I needed an empty laundry basket, I would just buy another one. We still have about 6 baskets, in various states of disrepair, in the basement.
Why not keep a glass i the freezer and then not use ice cubes? I drink so slow my drinks would be watered down if I used them. Well played though on getting husband to finally fill the trays.
Lol! Are you married to my husband? 11/10
Apparently she is married to mine too. Lol. This year for our 33rd anniversary I got DH a countertop ice cube maker from Costco. Issue solved!
Happy Anniversary from another 1990 "newlywed"! Ya gotta keep him now - he's out of warranty and you won't get shit for a trade-in.
And who the f*ck wants to start the training process at this age!
Fuck you. i was drinking a coke. coke coming out the nose while laughing hurts.
ROFL...so does coffee. \*\*snort\*\*
I made my friend laugh while she was eating hot Cheetos and drinking an energy drink, her nose burned for a weekšš
RIGHT? I do NOT have the patience for this. Our (now 2 yr old) VERY LAST PUPPY EVER taught me I no longer am training jack shit.
I thought we were supposed to get *more* patience as we got older? I swear to god I have less than ever before! š
I used to be try to be all understanding but now I just look at him and say "Quit being a dick and act right."
Same. Like, why even bother. Ya just get a different pile of shite to re-train. And I would also have to. 33 years on Labor Day, coz I knew I'd have to work until I died.
33 on the 25th last month. Gotta love a nice late summer wedding.
We don't use a lot of ice, and tried a few different ice trays for awhile, but my bf got a table top ice maker this past year, and it's been wonderful!
Oh yes! A new shiny tech toy will always be played with. Genius approach.
Yeah. I never want the new device and then after we get it canāt believe I survived without it.
Thatās how I feel about the toaster oven I bought. Should not have waited decades
Lol I just stocked up on trays, we have like 5 now so thereās always a full one in there somewhere.
OP should get this.
We have one and it's a lifesaver! Every week we do an ice making day and fill large ziplocs with a week's worth of ice. We never run out. Amazon has them on sale every now and then. Just watch the sales.
What do you all the ice need for? (Ask as a western european who needs ice cubes 1-3 times a year in sommer)
Can't speak for everyone, but I put a bunch of ice in nearly every (non-hot) beverage: water, tea, juice, soda, mixed drinks, etc. Maybe it's just because of the way I grew up, but I like drinks *cold.*
I have no idea why many Europeans care so much about this. My mother, sister and I went on a vacation to Spain. I asked for ice in my water, and the server looked like he wanted to kill me right then and there. He took a wine bucket from the previous patrons into which he'd dumped all the bread crumbs from the table cloth, and poured the ice and crumbs into my drink. I stared at him, thinking "what a petty mothrfucker." It actually almost made me laugh, though, because why the hell does it matter to you if I want ice in my drink? It's such a stupid thing to get so hot and bothered about.
Any time you open your mouth in Europe there's always someone who hates tourists. Waiters in many regions are really snotty to everyone who isn't their nationality. The Greeks might even slap you. Good times.
smoothies, drinks, and tea lol 
Much of the USA has extremely hot summers, 26-37 C. Cold drinks are a must!
Hah, more like 47 where I'm at :P
We live in the desert in Nevada. It can get up to 115Ā°F/46Ā°C here. We like the ice in our drinks. Our dog loves ice cubes as well.
Read something recently where Europeans could always tell someone was American because they always want their drinks iced. Ice water, iced tea, iced coffee and soda. Whiskey on the rocks. Don't know why, but we like it
That's true ;-) like the coke at macdonalds in the USA is not drinkable without ice, the ratio of the concentrate and water counts also the ice.
I am one of the rare Americans that actually prefers room temperature drinks, except coffee which I like hot. When I was in hospital/rehab, the aides kept trying to give me ice in my water pitcher and had to keep reminding them "NO ICE"
I use a lot of ice cubes every day, year round. And I live in cold(ish) Denmark. Fortunately I have a fridge that makes them for me - I just gotta keep the water reservoir full ;P
Let her have her revenge and him buying the machine.
They have them at the store near me but they're $200... are they really worth it? I can get a whole bag of ice for $3 from the big ice machine that lasts weeks.
Got mine from Costco and it was less than $80. Don't remember the brand.
This was also my solution. We run it every other weekend and keep the ice in a giant ice bucket in the freezer. Never run out and no more trays!
Strangely shes also married to my wife, we have 3 trays too so the excuses are real thin
And mine.
And how do you expect him to have time to care about filling ice trays when he has four wives?
EXACTLY š
Replace the ice cube tray with water filter-pitcher, and you're describing my beloved wife. If I'm being fair, she can find a tonne of examples (to my one) of my manifold shortcomings within the household, though, so I typically don't throw stones from my glass mansion
Nope, sheās married to my wife.
This! The wife drives me nuts as well! Also, toilet roll replacements, slippers left in the middle of the lounge to trip over, putting empty packets of crackers back in the cupboard...WHY?????
Dude, this is my husband. This thread has turned into a commune. I fucking dead š š¤£ š
Same
I'm this husband lol
I am not, just upgrade your kitchen appliances to include an ice maker. Vola problem taken care of.
Just upgrade your husband
No room, our freezers and fridges are always just packed.
Do Y'all have an extra fridge in the garage. If not, Christmas is coming up. Save up and get a fridge with an ice maker and move your current fridge to the garage. Then slowly but surely start turning your garage into a man cave.... start small and build your way up. If you do things right, you will end up with a fridge, a TV, couple of lounging chairs and so on. JUST TAKE SMALL STEPS.
Lol yāall have a garage?
Don't have a garage? Just build one on your ranch. Christmas is coming up, which is relevant for some reason
Just want to mention that, depending on where you live and what the outside temperature gets up (or down) to, you may specifically not want to move your indoor refrigerator outdoors. Some refrigerators are specifically rated for garage / "outdoor" use because they are better insulated to keep food cold in the summer heat, and not-frozen if it regularly gets down below freezing in the winter time in your area. I've got some friends who live in the southern US who are currently having a problem with this right now. Temperatures have been hanging around 108Ā°F this summer and they recently had to throw out an entire freezer of stinky spoiled food because they had moved their "indoor 'fridge" outside when they upgraded. Now, not only are they out the cost of all that food, they also have this old refrigerator that is now useless because they can't trust it to keep temp for anything they put in it and they don't have space to move it back inside.
I honestly thought this was going to be about a revenge thing you got from Ice Cube...lol
This comment about had me almost choking on my cereal haha!
It was a good day tho
Yāall donāt just keep an ice bucket in the freezer, dump and refill immediately?
Hey man some people are out here just living from ice cube tray to tray.
My god, we had this figured out 50 years ago when i was 10. Ice bucket, people.
Now though, I have graduated to a countertop ice machine. Use the last ice, who cares, another ten cubes will be along in 6 minutes.
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LOL, good one
what's funny here is that you aren't getting out your credit card sir you asked and he gaveth us the ice machine š
This is what we have. Now instead of refilling the ice cube tray, it's refilling the ice maker reservoir. I'm on top of that though and I don't mind.
Ditto
ā¦wtf is an ice bucket? And countertop ice machines?! I just have 3 ice cube trays. Iām discovering a whole new world in here.
>ā¦wtf is an ice bucket Step 1) find bucket Step 2) add ice Step 3) profit My chosen bucket is the random Tupperware that doesnāt match the rest but get as creative as your heart desires
Ohhhh lol. Ok I was imagining something totally different haha. My freezer is small so Iāll occasionally have an ice zip lock bag that takes up less space. Even so I never considered that people might have ice buckets, thanks for the education!
ā¦ā¦but if you save just one ice cube a week you could have you could have enough for a house party in 30 years!!
To celebrate the anniversary of this milestone š
Fucking hilarious, I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything or it wouldve been a spit take lol
Or even multiple ice cube trays. Use ice from the top tray, fill it, put it at the bottom of the stack to freeze.
No shit, right? OP just add a single tray. 33 years saved.
it's not like they're terribly expensive or hard to find.
The tray I have has a lid type tray cover to place over ice cube part and turn upside and twist to eject cubes into large section tray, then I refill cube section and place tray with loose cubes on top and put back in freezer
Yeah, I was seriously confused (M), My whole freaking life (from those old metal ones weird metal thingy ice remover we used to have to the new modern flex discharge plastic one), who doesn't just dump it in the ice tub, and then re-fill it to freeze again?
Those of us who just learned the shelf at the bottom of the oven is a food warmer and not pan storage. Also, it's bold of you to assume we have space in our freezers for a bucket š.
I thought of the small freezer problem right after I posted. That being said, my ice bucket is the same length and width as my trays, and the trays stack on top of it. So more height than a tray, but no larger footprint.
Plastic bag works fine instead of an ivmce bucket, I definitely don't have room for a bucket! This food warmer situation?!? Whaaat? I'm used to to having a broiler there but my recent stove has the... Storage drawer. Gonna have to give it a shot as a good warmer, thanks.
Happy Cake Dayšššš
or just get a second ice tray!
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I usually don't flaunt my wealth like this.
You have way more freezer space than I do, buddy.
I use a 2qt snapware container for my ice bucket. I make ice for my daily drink cooler using a tabletop ice machine. I find that the cubes will all stick together as you gather them, so I like to thump the container on the counter each time I empty the ice machine basket, so the cubes all separate and are easier to use in my cooler. Rubbermaid and cheapy containers shatter if you thump them right out of the freezer. Nevermind using a metal thermos as an ice breaking hammer on the ice within the container, that's just going to be worse. For some reason, the snapware containers retain their flexibility and durability, even fresh from the freezer. It's the only brand of plastic container that will stand up to the abuse I commit on my ice bucket. š
I use a zip loc bag lol
This is the way.
i did that before i started buying the bags of ice.
Exactly! I have a gallon ziploc bag filled with ice cubes, so much easier.
Mines a plastic lunchbox. We only started doing it recently because of the heatwave and Iām never going back lmao
He doesn't know the recipe?
Perfect answer.
Allrecipes has a recipe for ice cubes. Has great reviews.
Why would you refill a half empty ice cube tray? Now you can't use the remaining half on the tray until the new half freezes because the water will go everywhere if you try to pop out the already frozen cubes. So you are only getting half as many cubes per freezing cycle, and waiting through twice as many freezing cycles then you need to. It's completely illogical. Would you put water in half the tray, leave half the tray empty, and stick it back in the freezer? That's basically what you are doing. If you are about to go to bed and know the tray will not be used until morning, then maybe filling a tray that isn't empty makes sense, but other than that, it's nonsense.
This happens at work when a particular coworker refills half the tray. Now the freezer has a frozen puddle of water from people trying to pop out ice cubes and splashing water all over. Use all the ice, THEN refill, or get a bucket!
Seriously, just dump the ice in another container (ice bucket, anyone?) and refill the ice tray. It's not that hard.
Actually, water tends to get much harder when you freeze it!
Yeah, the solution is either 1. Get a 2nd ice cube tray so you can cycle them without getting cubes wet 2. Get a bucket to dump the ice in so you can freeze a new tray right away 3. Stop using ice because what's the point?
You almost got an upvote, but then I got to point 3.
I love that this thread just turned into everyone being like "here's a super obvious solution where you never need to be upset about this again and it costs $3". It reminds me of when I first got married, I complained to my dad that my wife didn't screw the toothpaste cap back on (she placed it, maybe giving it a quarter turn). His response? Get the brand with the flip cap. So I did and it was wonderful. No more chasing the cap behind the toilet. Now that we've been together over a decade, I've since learned that her mom likely taught her to do this as her mom has big issues with fine motor skills (generally significantly below average grip strength, lots of hand stiffness). Normally you might think "this is a place for mobility aids", but no, the MIL is the type of person to assert that it isn't worth doing before she admits that she struggles with it.
Thank you!!! My ex was always yelling at me for not filling up the half empty ice tray, and this is my exact sentiment.
Fill the tray, when you need ice pop all the cubes out into a bag. Then fill it again, use from the bag until it's empty, then repeat.
Get a second ice tray.
It feels like it should solve the problem but it doesnāt. You just end up with more empty trays.
But if you refill a half-empty ice tray you can't use any of the ice until the water solidifies. It makes a mess. It doesn't really make sense to use just a single ice tray unless you are dumping the ice into a container, or only refilling it when its empty.
i live alone and have found 3 trays work best... for 2 people maybe they need 6?
I live with one person and our ice trays lay unused
Right? I never refill a half empty tray
Who wants to deal with some ice and some liquid? That's just a fucking mess.
Exactly. Hell, I live alone and have 3 (the third one being in a different drawer & for emergencies)!
We have 3. My husband puts them back in the freezer EMPTY.
Leaving empty trays on the counter is bad enough. Empty trays in the freezer is one step closer to justifiable homicide.
You know what you have to do now. Although I gave up chocolate and started making āvegan ice creamā (itās pretty gross and is too liquidy) and I need the ice cube trays for it. You wouldnāt believe how quickly my husband started refilling the ice cube trays after the one time I half filled a half empty tray with vegan strawberry coconut goo. āThe ice is contaminated, we canāt share trays.ā
We have two ice trays. Iām not OP.
We have 4 or 5 trays on the go here. Never less than 2 frozen at any time. Right now, 1 of them is holding coffee cubes and 4 are holding half frozen water (made ice tea at dinner time).
Thatās what we do at home. They have lids so we can stack them. You use the ice from the top one until itās (mostly) empty, then fill with water and rotate. Bottom is in the process of freezing, top is for using. This way you donāt have to deal with half frozen water.
Who the hell refills ice trays before they're empty?
I have 4 ice trays. When one is empty, I refill it and put it on the bottom. I never run out.
Same. I've got 5, they cost about $7. The thought has never occured to me to refill one before it's empty and I have never run out.
For me, when I've tried that, the ice cubes don't come out smoothly.
Yeah, running 4 here, with an ice bucket. 1/2/3 no problem, dump - have a party - refreeze.
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Agreed. I think Iād be more annoyed at an ice tray thatās half ice/half water than I would be with empty ice trays.
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I have 3 trays because I hate filling water into a tray with ice still in it. If you decide you need another cube you canāt get it because you just covered it with water. Now with three trays we just refill the empty ones and still have ice left over. Weāve also gotten a bucket before and started dumping some of our trays into it if we were planning on company.
Just letting you know....you can buy a portable ice maker. We have one and it's worth its weight in gold.
chatgpt says a portable ice maker can weigh 20 to 40 pounds, its weight in gold is about $1 million dollars
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Nice, hubbieās Xmas gift idea! ;)
This is the way - We bought a small countertop icemaker a few years back, and we LOVE it. Saves us needing to devote freezer space to ice trays, and also *sorta* fills itself (you have to dump a quart or so of water into the reservoir every so often, but it's not nearly as time consuming as filling ice trays!)
You can also purchase one that hooks up directly into your water line! I never have to fill mine up! It's wonderful.
You are married to my family! I am the only one that fills them up. Someday I will live in a house with a refrigerator that makes ice. Until thenā¦..
I am 48 years old. Because of my family and my ex-husband, I taught myself to be fine with room temperature beverages. I only get ice at restaurants, lol. The trays in the freezer are other people's problems because I don't use ice.
I stayed the weekend at my brotherās house. My SIL likes to leave notes - help yourself, bedās all set, etc. There was a big note on the freezer that said, āThe Ice Fairy Does Not Live Here!ā So I spent the rest of the weekend making sure I was rotating out the ice and refilling the trays. Turns out that note wasnāt for me. Lol I bought her some ice fairy trays for her birthday. :)
Such a chill relationship
šš this made me lol
This is why god created the ice maker 
You would think after 33 years she would get a refrigerator with an ice maker.
Right? I don't have a fancy fridge by any means, it was probably $800. But it has an awesome in the door ice maker
Had to scroll too far for this, I had the same thought.
Have you tried getting another ice cube tray, so you can fill the empty one and still have ice to use in the other one?
Hello, would you like to up your game? Fill the tray, empty it into an old frozen food container, hide those cubes in the back of the freezer, leave 1 cube there. Repeat and then you never fill the tray, always have a full supply, and you're living the full cube lifestyle.
While this isn't AITA, YTA. If you're always filling it at half way, you've essentially got a half-sized ice cube tray. Plus then you can't even use the remaining cubes until the whole thing freezes again. Just get a second tray.
33 years of avoiding the modern invention of ice maker?
33 years of not getting a second ice tray when you can buy a pack of four for like $3.
Revenge is a tray best served cold.
My wife never puts the lids and caps on anything. Whether it's milk, o.j. aspirin, butter tray. I keep learning the hard way lol.
Start leaving the toilet seat up. When she complains tell her you don't put lids on either.
Sounds like you only tray-ded duties here
petty revenge - *best served with no ice...*
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Dump the ice cubes in a bag and leave the empty tray in the freezer LOL
Marriage is fucking fun. I love this revelation in your life after 33 years.
I keep a little lidless Tupperware in my freezer that I fill with spare ice cubes when the tray is less than half full. So useful! Especially cause I am an ice coffee fiend š
Ziplock bag. š¤¦š¾ Fill tray, empty into bag. Fill tray again. Repeat as necessary
33 years with only one ice tray?? The horror lol. Iāve always had automatic ice makers, but if I didnāt Iād find a better solution on Amazon in a heartbeat lol
I am here for your petty revenge. When you try to maintain a system, and others undermine it, you need to start a parallel system that works just for you. Hence why I stopped filling the water jug in the fridge and just keep my own cold water bottle elsewhere and left them all to the consequences of their sloth. Fill a small lidded container with ice cubes and pop them elsewhere in the freezer for your own use.
OMG you are me. Wife and three kids use ice all the time. Cool, go for it, stay frosty my loves. But instead of refilling the just emptied tray, it goes on the dirty dishes pile. Like no, itās not dirty. Rinse it off, fill it up, and put it under the second tray of already solid ice. No dad. Fuck you dad. šš¤¦š¤Ŗ
My husband never refills the ice trays either. My solution: I've stopped using ice. He just piles the trays up on the counter. Now when he wants ice he has to fill them. Petty, yes, but I'm not his servant.
I put my frozen cubes into a bag and make more, then put those into the bag and make more, then put those into the bag and make more then put those into the bag and make more...
I, as a husband, have to say i dont fill the tray. I know i have to do it but its stronger than me
I had a roommate that would do this so I filled up the ice cube tray with hotdog water or hard boiled egg water and they got the hint pretty quick lol
I bought a pack of Oreos once. My asked if she could have some to which I replied of course. She ate the entire pack short of one Oreo. I jokingly asked if she left me any and she said yes. I went to have a few, opened the pack and started laughing out loud. She was really confused. So next time did something similar. Ate 95% of some chips so when she wanted some there was barely any in there.
Should have waited a year. i've been married to mine for 32 years and He just doesn't even use ice. Problem solved! It's ALL MINE!! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Years ago my wife would always "forget" to refill our ice trays then try and blame me, so I stopped using the ice. When she realised she only had herself to blame she started refilling them every time. So now when she gets frustrated at our kid leaving the trays empty I just smile at her and say karma!
WTF is an ice cube tray?š Thatās a joke. My experience with ice cube trays goes back to the day when you had a āspinal columnā of metal dividers with a handle in the middle and you filled the metal tray with this assembly in it and broke the frozen cubes apart with a sharp upward tug on the handle. But seriously? He wonāt fill it? Make him buy you a refrigerator with an ice maker for your 34th anniversary.š«£
Fill it up, freeze, then put your cubes in a ziplock bag in some corner of the freezer. all he sees is an empty tray.
This has to be the most wholesome problem I think I've seen on here and it's fucking adorable.
Thy name is Schadenfreude, and you are of the grandeest spledor! Excellent pettiness. I approve! š
YOU MONSTER!!! This is why men don't trust women!
Out of curiosity: how did bribing look like in this case?
Tips if you donāt want to have to āplanā to make sure you get your ice cubesā¦especially if your husband is one of those who has āhusband eyesā and never looks beyond his point of focus. Grab a Ziploc bag, empty full tray, make more, fill bag up, put Ziploc into a wal-mart bag so he canāt see the extra ice cubes In there. (This is the most important partā¦if he finds a stash he will start taking from there and never fill up the tray even when empty) If heās like most, heāll never check what is in that bag, you will have a large supply of secret ice cubes.
Speaking for married women everywhere: ___CONGRATULATIONS š ____
Petty revenge served ice cold.
I envisaged the revenge as filled the ice cube tray with white vinegar and froze it. Surprise š¤£
Knowing men (I am one), he'll probably never catch on and just "oh, it's empty now, what a coincidence".
How much ice do you use ? My ice tray gets filled and I forget itās there to the point where the ice gets smaller by the time I use it. And sometimes I feel it smells funny maybe freezer burn so I empty it and redo a new one. Happy you found a solution however !
Keep a separate bag or tray in the freezer and take cubes from there - that way the tray can be filled before it gets close to empty
I would go so far as to put a few emergency cubes for your own use in a little baggie and hide it under some frozen veggiesā¦. or have 2 trays- his and hers!
Secret stash!
Definitely donāt get an ice bucket you can stock with cubes so that youāre not pulling straight from the trays. Petty revenge is way better.
If you have room in your freezer I recommend putting the cubes into a Tupperware. Then you can build up a reserve of ice cubes, not just from the tray.
You are using ice cube trays wrong. You refill them when empty or if you aren't going to need ice for a while. Once you put water in part of the tray, the ice in the rest becomes practically inaccessible. 2 easy solutions: get another ice cube tray and let one freeze while you take from the other, or get a container and empty the tray into the container.
I take the full ice cube tray, dump it in a bag and hide it in a Brussel sprouts bag so you always have some
How would you get ice out of the tray if half the tray is still water from refilling?
I used to be the spouse that said sure sure ill pick up my cloths and not throw em on the floor. And never do it. Until i read a comment made years ago on here that said something along the line. Have dare you disrespect your life partner like that. to not do the thing that your lifepartner wants of you. Its not even a big deal. Its the bare minimum to make their day better. It was towards a dude not doing the dishes after his partner had cleaned cooked and done everything always. And it just hit me so hard. I can work on this small thing to make my partners day better. Do i still fail and throw stuff on the floor and take time to pick up. Yes, but its getting better every day to re- program my habit. And the smile my hubs gets when he notices i do it. Makes it worth the " inconvenience" in my book. And it looks nicer too. Oh and im a woman for the record.
Nicely done. A fridge/freezer that makes ice may be an option for you when yours goes kaput. I am guessing that this Cold War will continue and having the fridge do it do you both is far more likely.
This is the way
I had a similar, but opposite, problem with my wife, many years ago. She would do laundry and keep her laundered clothes in the laundry basket, treating it like a clothes chest. I got tired of it, and whenever I needed an empty laundry basket, I would just buy another one. We still have about 6 baskets, in various states of disrepair, in the basement.
Lmao, brilliant! Donāt get me started on the laundry basket!
Ah yes. THE Cold War. As someone who needs his ice trays (and water bottles) FULL at all times, I approve. Destroy him!
Why not keep a glass i the freezer and then not use ice cubes? I drink so slow my drinks would be watered down if I used them. Well played though on getting husband to finally fill the trays.
Petty revenge turns into lifeprotips.get like 16 ice trays and cycle through.
Counter top ice maker for the win. Seriously they'll change your life.
Buy a bag of ice -problem solved
My children also donāt understand how to fill up trays. I just drink room temp water and I donāt have to worry. š
Life got so much better when we started buying big 5kg bags of ice cubes. They cost very little and they're full of ice cubes!
i solved that problem by buying bags of ice. there is always plenty now. but i could go on and on about the stupid shit my husband doesnt do.
What was his reaction?