• ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    My grandmother stocked raisins in a jar in her kitchen for 30 years because I once said I liked raisins.

    It was cool to know there was a jar of raisins there basically just for me to have raisins. But I eventually didn’t like raisins all that much anymore. But of course I’d have to have some raisins because she was keeping them there for me.

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    I have a family member whose fridge looks like this.

    Because he is an unrepentant alcoholic who sucks down vodka like a fish does water, and thinks hes being clever by hiding it in orange juice.

    And hes so “clever” that he doesnt hide the recycle bin, which is always overflowing with empty vodka bottles.

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    I’ve heard that orange juice goes for like $11 a gallon in some places lately, so gramps must be ballin rich!

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      This made me curious so I checked. A Gallon on OJ cost $10 at my local chain store. It’s the only grocery store for a while so they get away with a lot. What does it normally cost? I’m not a fan and don’t think I’ve ever bought orange juice

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      grampa: fuck gold or crypto, i am going OJ

      edit: btw, gambling in OJ futures is quite a thing, i think there is even a movie about it

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      how? wasn’t the whole thing about orange juice that the US just had too many danged oranges so they started advertising it is the breakfast drink? shouldn’t it be dirt cheap?

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        I forget where I saw that online, but it was somewhere here in the USA. I can’t say I’ve personally seen OJ at that price, but honestly I haven’t ever shopped for OJ, so I dunno.

        Still, somewhere between name brand and price gouging and shit, I don’t doubt it a bit. Wherever I saw that posted, it was a photo including the shelf price tag.

        $10.99 a fucking gallon!

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    Having young nieces and nephews, be very clear and leave obvious hints of what you’d like as gifts. I know that look of disappointment.

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      A good way to leave an obvious hint is to put it in “Saved For Later” of wherever the old grownups shop.

      And be specific, or we’ll get it wrong! My husband terrorized our wee little girl by getting a Sonic Screwdriver for her stocking. But not the Doctor’s SS, the Master’s! She’s an adult now and that thing is still stuffed in the back of the closet from when she ran away from it.

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    My folks do this. If I say I like something, I’m getting that for Christmas for the next decade

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      I’m guilty of the other way. I really don’t know what else my mother is into nowadays, but since she raised me on Star Trek, I usually just get her Star Trek shit.

      The thing is, she loves it every time. Or claims to.

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        Maybe casually ask her sometime if she needs anything? Listen when she expresses interest in a random gadget, piece of cloth, etc? Notice when she gets frustrated with a task that a tool can help with, or that you can volunteer to manage?

        People usually buy gifts they would like, and its so nice she loves it still, but I’d bet she’d be extra happy with a surprise.

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      my mother is somehow the opposite, if i say i don’t want something she’ll always and without fail ask me “since when do you hate [thing]”

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        Not arguing you’re wrong, but I’ve been witness to the other side of that sort of conversation.

        The item was ketchup. Always needed to have ketchup. Then:

        Child: “I hate ketchup!”

        Mom: "What do you mean? You put ketchup on everything.’

        Child: “I’ve never used ketchup. I’ve always hated it.”

        [Jump forward a few years]

        Child: “Where’s my ketchup?”

        Mom: “I thought you hated ketchup?”

        Child: “Since when? I use ketchup all the time.”

        As the dad, I’m tempted to point out that mom doesn’t need help losing her mind, but as the dad, I also know better than to be involved.

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        For me it was always, what do you want for Christmas? How about a computer chair (because she didn’t like the chair I used, it was one you knelt on kind of like this.

        I would say absolutely not, I love my chair. And she would get me a computer chair for Christmas.

        Same thing happened with my graduation. She got my brother a watch a couple years before when he graduated, told her absolutely don’t get me a watch I never wear them as they always bothered my wrist. (I sweat and run hot, and we lived in Florida, which means it’s always 100% humidity). I of course got a watch for Graduation. I took it to get sized 7 years later, wore it home from the place that sized it put it in a drawer and the battery died god knows when after that, but long before I ever went to wear it, I just saw it was dead when I had to move it to another house. So now I carry a dead watch from place to place and I doubt it’s worth anything as it was engraved on the inside, so I doubt you could even pawn in.

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        I mean, at least it wasn’t a Zero Bar. I got those a couple times as a kid and they were okay if you were in the mood for it, but damn if someone said they got me a candy bar and handed me that I’d be a bit disappointed. But hell, Id still be happy someone gave me a candy bar though.

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          My dad does the same thing. If he has to run for smokes while I’m visiting he’ll come back with a Zero bar. I rarely buy candy for myself and I would never get myself a Zero bar. They’re perfectly fine but I’d probably go a Snicker’s Almond or something like that.

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    Lol accurate. For me it was my grandma and corned beef hash. I said I liked it with eggs. Next time she stopped by, she brought a dozen cans of it. Can’t eat that stuff anymore, only homemade from now on because canned corned beef hash smells like dog food.

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    I haven’t bought orange juice in over a year because the price almost tripled. I look at it longingly in the store sometimes though.

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      It is way too expensive. It seems like the lowest common denominator perfect grocery item to price gouge. Like anybody is gonna do anything about especially these useless presidents. We got hooverviles now.

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    I have an ex-girlfriend who almost exclusively live on orange juice, hummus and bread. So this was basically her fridge along with a big plastic bowl of homemade hummus and the freezer filled with one specific kind of bread. I like all of those things too but not so much I could live off of it.

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      Hommus slaps though.

      I can go through a kilo of hummus a week. I eat it with chips, carrots, celery, bread.