re: What kind of stuff does your elderly parents do that makes you ask them why?

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My MIL is a damn nut and will not throw spices/seasoning away. She has nutmeg/cinnamon etc with expiration dates in the 70s and claims they never expire and will sprinkle that shite on food during the holidays. I get explosive diarrhea every few years after eating at her house so maybe thats why.

My grandmother wlll yell "WHAT" even if she hears me. If I don't respond, she'll answer. Also she will not buy brand name anything. She has the shittiest foil, ketchup, toilet paper, paper towels etc.

My grandmother saved empty glass jars.

She had 100’s of em. Cleaned em and took the labels off too. Old pickle jars, mayonnaise jars, peanut butter jars (yes kids, peanut butter used to come in glass jars).

She had a small house and a small kitchen, yet she easily had over 200. All clean and with the labels removed. She never used them. We never asked why she saved them. We threw them all away after she passed. She was like 15 when the Depression started and always talked about how tough times were. Maybe that had something to do with it? Or maybe she was just a jar hoarder?

My MIL refuses to throw a trash bag out into there is literally not enough room to fit a grain of rice. Which I can respect to a degree, but…


She also shops at Sam’s and has a box of 230 bags

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My dad will need a new lawn mower, but then decide most new lawn mowers are over priced. So he’ll buy the cheapest one possible and then spend hours and money trying to keep it functioning. Then when it finally stops working very good, but still runs, he’ll buy a second shitty lawnmower and continue the process. At its worst moment, he has had five shitty lawnmowers in his garage, and rotates between whichever one he can get to run. All to avoid the one time expense of a good lawnmower that is “overpriced.” You can pretty much switch out lawnmower for any appliance or machine in the house and it’s the same situation.

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Hahaha we must be brothers

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But why not just use the normal utensils and put those in the dishwasher?

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Yea, washing the real utensils is actually less wasteful

Thread reminds me of growing up on a dairy farm. Owner's mom lived nearby, and she would send over two Coke and Jack "highballs" to the dairy barn every evening. The glasses were old frosting containers with lids. And, she would only give us that day's drinks if we had returned the ones from the day before. Entire operation required 4 frosting containers.

MIL absolutely refuses to turn on her cell phone unless she wants to make a call. Then, she turns it off again.

Refuse to buy YoutubeTV when they have a Roku TV and insist on paying $389/mo for Dish and bitch incessantly about the receiver box not coming on or rebooting.

Bought them a Roku TV the other day and begged them to at least try it. But they said “how will we watch regular TV and our local news?” I told them it’s there and they can watch it and wouldn’t need but 1 remote. Then their excuse was “we’ll have to learn all those channel numbers again” and I said “they’re in alphabetical order”. They refuse to turn that satellite dish off like it’s some kind of lifeline or something.

They bitch all the time about the 15 remotes they have and I told them I solved their problem if they’d just dump Dish AND save $300/mo. They said again “I don’t understand how we’ll get our local channels”. I had to just walk away with love.

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What kind of stuff does your elderly parents do that makes you ask them why?

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I always ask them, "Why did you have to die so young," when I visit their graves.