Re: OT...Someone explain this to me

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In a message dated 4/3/02 5:20:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, rgr4us@...

writes:

> Why? Who hoards crackers?

>

> Raena

My dh went to pick up Dakota last night from his friend's house(he had a

tummy ache:( ) and just felt some dire need to stop and get picture

frames............???? Men are just odd:)

Tommi

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In a message dated 4/3/02 4:33:02 PM Pacific Standard Time,

bunnytiner@... writes:

<< (he had a

> tummy ache:( ) and just felt some dire need to stop and get picture

> frames............???? Men are just odd:)

And I can use THOSE too.

Several of mine are broken. >>

Your men or your picture frames, Salli?

;-/

Just kidding!

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>

> Why? Who hoards crackers?

>

Sounds like an OCD thing to me, Raena.

And you can mail us a couple of boxes if you'd like! We all like crackers

and we go through them pretty darn fast.

Salli

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> My dh went to pick up Dakota last night from his friend's house(he had a

> tummy ache:( ) and just felt some dire need to stop and get picture

> frames............???? Men are just odd:)

And I can use THOSE too.

Several of mine are broken.

Salli

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>

> Your men or your picture frames, Salli?

>

Both, Kandie.

Send me good men and good picture frames PLEASE!

Salli

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At least it's not pickled herring.

BLECH.

Jacquie

-who keeps throwing it away nearly as fast as dh buys it.

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I do it to Raena....I just like crackers, and it seems that everytime I run out,

I get too sick to go to the store to get more. I have 4 boxes of Ritz, 2 Keebler

Club, and 2 Saltines in my pantry/cupboard. Maybe he's just absent-minded??

" rgr4us " wrote:

>Okay,

>

>This is not a vent, honest...just a question. My husband goes to the

>store on his way home a lot of times, or when he is out and

>about...just stops and picks up a few things he figures we need.

>That is truly wonderful---saves me many a trip to the store with

> in tow for little odds and ends. But there is something about

>it that I just don't understand at all. He ALWAYS brings home

>crackers....always. Every single time. Right now, in my pantry, there

>are 2 full boxes of Ritz crackers, plus 4 (FOUR!!) large boxes of

>saltines.

>

>Why? Who hoards crackers?

>

>Raena

>

>

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I slept on this and all I'm coming up with is that maybe they were on sale?

You can also use instead of bread crumbs if you smash them. I have a couple

good receipes for casseroles if you want to try and use them all up LOL

G

PS We have a pantry so whenever we see something on sale it goes in there but

since we can't see it we've bought stuff that we really didn't need yet. So

now I have a list of whatever we have in the pantry. It hangs on the frig.

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> Saltines..... good for curing morning sickness.

> Ritz is alright for that too.

>

> Is he hinting, perhaps?>>

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....I'm afraid it'll be a

cold day in a hot place before I catch THAT hint!

Seriously, though, for a variety of reasons, Mark is more likely to

be hinting at homemade soup than more kids to support...

Raena

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>> Sounds like an OCD thing to me, Raena.>>

According to our unspoken agreement, I have custody of all the OCD

behaviors...Mark gets to do depression, anger, and " flight "

behaviors...if he gets to be OCD, I get to be mad. I don't like mad.

Maybe I'll take running. Nah; too paranoid to leave the kids. And

depression is SO...well....depressing. Hmmmmmm. He can't have my

OCD.

> And you can mail us a couple of boxes if you'd like! We all like

crackers

> and we go through them pretty darn fast.>>

You wouldn't want these...they're those fat free things. I made soup

last night to use some of them up...maybe tonight will be salmon

loaf. :-)

Raena

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> ???? Men are just odd:)>>

:-) Yup.

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>> At least it's not pickled herring.

>

> BLECH.>>

Blech is right. Okay...crackers are not so bad. :-)

Raena

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> I do it to Raena....I just like crackers, and it seems that

everytime I run out, I get too sick to go to the store to get more. I

have 4 boxes of Ritz, 2 Keebler Club, and 2 Saltines in my

pantry/cupboard. Maybe he's just absent-minded??>>

Good point, . He is awfully absent-minded...one of the running

jokes in our family, in fact. Too bad he doesn't " just like "

chocolate...I could get into hoarding chocolate.

Raena

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> I hoard crackers. We have boxes of cheese crackers,

> ritz type crackers, saltines, animal crackers, and

> regular and cinnamon graham crackers. I love

> crackers. And my kids love crackers. LOL>>

Cheese crackers, graham crackers, animal crackers....those disappear

way fast at our house, too. But not fat-free saltines...those are

forever, because Mark is the only one who will eat them if there are

other options.

Raena

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> > You can also use instead of bread crumbs if you smash them. I

> have a couple good receipes for casseroles if you want to try and

> use them all up LOL>>

Send 'em on...I've got a lot of crackers to crumb.

>>So now I have a list of whatever we have in the pantry. It hangs

on the frig.>>

You know, I used to do that, too...thanks for the reminder.

Raena

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Penny,

I drive Jeff crazy with something like that. I will not drink milk

that is 2 days before its experation date and will not do leftovers

over 2 days old.

Jacquie H

> Does he have issues with " freshness " ?

>

> My dh does. BIG TIME. There is SO much bread, rolls, tortillas,

etc., in

> my cupboard it's ridiculous. He will NOT eat anything that is NOT

fresh, so

> he goes out and buys new stuff, even if the " old " stuff is only a

couple

> days old.

>

> This is really one of my pet peeves.

>

> Penny

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I do that!! I do not eat leftovers unless it is the

very next day and it was put into the fridge

immediately after dinner. Also, bread has to be very

fresh or I will throw it away. Crackers, too. Once

the package is open it has to be eaten. Cereal is the

same. How wierd is that?

Tamara

--- doops_shmoops wrote:

> Penny,

> I drive Jeff crazy with something like that. I

> will not drink milk

> that is 2 days before its experation date and will

> not do leftovers

> over 2 days old.

> Jacquie H

>

>

>

>

> > Does he have issues with " freshness " ?

> >

> > My dh does. BIG TIME. There is SO much bread,

> rolls, tortillas,

> etc., in

> > my cupboard it's ridiculous. He will NOT eat

> anything that is NOT

> fresh, so

> > he goes out and buys new stuff, even if the " old "

> stuff is only a

> couple

> > days old.

> >

> > This is really one of my pet peeves.

> >

> > Penny

>

>

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, 1 year

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In a message dated 4/5/2002 10:55:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,

rgr4us@... writes:

>

Bakery tip ... wash hands, wet hands, rub wet hands on bread. Bake bread for

five minutes. Bread will taste fresh.

G

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Cheese! Tomato! Peanut Butter! Jam! Oops, I mean Jelly, for

the US people... Everything goes on those crackers. You

don't notice they are low fat then! Believe it or not, they

can be an entire lunch of you make a plate of all different

ones. Actually, our favourite on those is Vegemite on the

crackers with the holes, you put one on top of the other and

squeeze to make worms through the holes... but I'm guessing

you don't have Vegemite over there... LOL

in Sydney, Australia

Mum to , 6yo AS ADHD, and , 5yo mild hearing

loss

Re: OT...Someone explain this to

me

> I hoard crackers. We have boxes of cheese crackers,

> ritz type crackers, saltines, animal crackers, and

> regular and cinnamon graham crackers. I love

> crackers. And my kids love crackers. LOL>>

Cheese crackers, graham crackers, animal crackers....those

disappear

way fast at our house, too. But not fat-free

saltines...those are

forever, because Mark is the only one who will eat them if

there are

other options.

Raena

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> Does he have issues with " freshness " ?

>

> My dh does. BIG TIME. There is SO much bread, rolls, tortillas,

etc., in

> my cupboard it's ridiculous. He will NOT eat anything that is NOT

fresh, so

> he goes out and buys new stuff, even if the " old " stuff is only a

couple

> days old.>>

You know, Mark is actually the very opposite...drives me nuts hitting

the day old bread/bakery goods looking for " bargains " ---many of which

I end up tossing because they seem stale to ME...

He's the sort of guy who goes to the fridge, pulls something out and

asks how old it is, and if it is less than 4 days...he'll give it a

go. Doesn't want anything to go to waste, you know?

Raena

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Actually, our favourite on those is Vegemite on the

> crackers with the holes, you put one on top of the other and

> squeeze to make worms through the holes... but I'm guessing

> you don't have Vegemite over there... LOL

>

Actually we do, but it is only available in large or slightly odd grocery

stores. However I saw some just the other day in my grocery store and

thought about my friend from my grad school days. He always told me

that Vegemite was the Australian peanut butter.

Salli

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Jacquie H.

You'd get along GREAT with my dh.

What *I* don't understand is WHY he leaves the OLD stuff in the

cupboard/refrigerator when he replaces it with NEW stuff. And why save

leftovers if he isn't going to eat them anyway?

Penny ;-)

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You know the date on milk is a sell by date, not an expiration date, and

they do not assume that you will drink a gallon of milk on the day you take

it home. Generally milk is good a week or more after its sell by date.

Milk is, as my mother always said, honest and if it is no good a simple

sniff will tell you.

In stores in England the milk is left out very casually, or it was thirty

years ago when I last visited. It's a cooler country and they experience few

if any problems from this.

Salli

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salli,

Jeff has told me all of this before so many times I cannot

remember but I still will not drink it anywhere near the date! I am

crazy but I cannot help it. I will not trust my nose to tell me if it

is bad but then I have had food poisoning and will take no chance of

ever reliving that nightmare again and maybe that is why I am so

leary of milk! LOL

] Jacquie H

> You know the date on milk is a sell by date, not an expiration

date, and

> they do not assume that you will drink a gallon of milk on the day

you take

> it home. Generally milk is good a week or more after its sell by

date.

> Milk is, as my mother always said, honest and if it is no good a

simple

> sniff will tell you.

>

> In stores in England the milk is left out very casually, or it was

thirty

> years ago when I last visited. It's a cooler country and they

experience few

> if any problems from this.

>

> Salli

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> Jeff has told me all of this before so many times I cannot

> remember but I still will not drink it anywhere near the date! I am

> crazy but I cannot help it. I will not trust my nose to tell me if it

> is bad but then I have had food poisoning and will take no chance of

> ever reliving that nightmare again and maybe that is why I am so

> leary of milk! LOL

Food poisoning is indeed horrible. My sister had salmonella poisoning and

it actually gave her a heart attack. Horrible! I think she was extremely

cautious of eggs afterwards! So I can easily imagine you would worry after

that and it is a small thing really. Oh, well.

Salli