So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does.
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Technically I have a sibling but our age difference is so great we never really squabbled and I don't know of these things.
@futurebird when I was small my sister and I might have done that with chocolate but not with cheese or any other foodstuff.
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So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.
She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."
I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.
Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?
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I have a sibling, but this strikes me as *really* weird behavior. This kind of divvying up of food is very alien to my upbringing, and it would be a serious red flag with a romantic partner. -
@futurebird when I was small my sister and I might have done that with chocolate but not with cheese or any other foodstuff.
Cheese is cake for grown ups I think.
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So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.
She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."
I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.
Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?
@futurebird I think your suggestion risks destroying the relationship.
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@futurebird
I have a sibling, but this strikes me as *really* weird behavior. This kind of divvying up of food is very alien to my upbringing, and it would be a serious red flag with a romantic partner.IDK they seem fine. I don't know her well but I think it's JUST with food gifts.
Were it with everything I'd wonder about that.
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Cheese is cake for grown ups I think.
@futurebird I love cheese and so does my partner but if we run out of it we just get more. I suppose we are high rollers when it comes to cheese.
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So a friend of mine was telling me about this one strange thing his wife does. Whenever they get a gift of *food* and ONLY food (eg like a basket of cheese and crackers) she immediately goes about dividing it EXACTLY in half. "this is my part of the cheddar, this is yours" he isn't bothered about it just a little confused.
She told him. "If you had siblings you'd understand."
I suggested he may eat all the cheese and not notice.
Can those with siblings speak on this? Are you traumatized?
@futurebird At our house it was my dad & his "only 1 kind of jelly can be open at a time" and since we weren't well-off he bought HUGE jars of jelly. Grape for months.
When my middle sister grew up, the very first thing she did when she got her own place was buy 2 jars of jelly and open them both.
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@futurebird At our house it was my dad & his "only 1 kind of jelly can be open at a time" and since we weren't well-off he bought HUGE jars of jelly. Grape for months.
When my middle sister grew up, the very first thing she did when she got her own place was buy 2 jars of jelly and open them both.
Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)
They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...
"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.
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Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)
They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...
"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.
Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.
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Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.
@futurebird @epicdemiologist what are the circular ones used for? -
Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.
@futurebird @epicdemiologist My spouse's parents must have been in a club with yours, because we have scissors in every room of the apartment.
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist My spouse's parents must have been in a club with yours, because we have scissors in every room of the apartment.
Listen. What if you needed to cut something and you couldn't find the right scissors!? It would be horrible... so horrible...
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Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.
Oo I love the protractor scissors. Never seen those before.
Our scissors kept disappearing for years. When we moved out we found 9 pairs of them in our kid's room, behind the furniture, under the bed, in the closet...
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Oo I love the protractor scissors. Never seen those before.
Our scissors kept disappearing for years. When we moved out we found 9 pairs of them in our kid's room, behind the furniture, under the bed, in the closet...
A wise child ...
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist what are the circular ones used for?
They are just strange art scissors from the 80s. They are not very practical but they are fun.
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@futurebird @epicdemiologist My spouse's parents must have been in a club with yours, because we have scissors in every room of the apartment.
waking from a nightmare in a cold sweat because you needed scissors and there were none in the house... the horror.
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Let your kid use scissors or they may grow up with a scissors scarcity mentality.
@futurebird can you please talk a bit more about the two very weird (but still weirdly recognizible as scissors??) scissors on the table??????
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@futurebird can you please talk a bit more about the two very weird (but still weirdly recognizible as scissors??) scissors on the table??????
They are "art scissors" from the 80s just designed to be playful and fun.
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@futurebird I love cheese and so does my partner but if we run out of it we just get more. I suppose we are high rollers when it comes to cheese.
@IanMoore3000 @futurebird this never happened at home with any food but there is 8 year difference between me and my sister so we've always got on well.
When she started cooking in her 20s, I did however start to meow with our half-Siamese cat when we were hungry, we'd make so much racket she would feed *both* of us and couldn't prove who first started the noise..
I told her it was a cross-species male bonding exercise, to try and make the cat braver (I did also meow against the neighbours cat who had been bullying him and chased him away)
Me and the cat meowed together for some years until the mid 2000s when I had to move away to Ipswich (where I still live), for some weeks after I left he hung around my old room wondering where I had gone as he missed the meowing sessions
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Yeah. My parents would only let me use like two of the scissors and hid the nice ones and wouldn't buy the scissors I wanted as a gift because "you have scissors" (even told other people not to get them for me since I had them already)
They came over one day and noticed that I have a big vase and it's full of every kind of scissor, every color and size...
"so, that really was a big deal I guess" my mom said ... I hadn't even really noticed the connection. But it WAS.
@futurebird @epicdemiologist
As far as I knew, there was only one pair of scissors ever in the house I grew up in. Finding them when they were needed a frequent source of drama, sturm, und drang.It remains a thing of family legend how my sister, who was really into sewing, assiduously saved up her babysitting money until she could buy herself a pair of proper dressmaker's shears - and then my father, unable to locate the communal family scissors, took the dressmaker's shears out of my sister's sewing box and used them to cut fiberglass cloth.
I have a pair of scissors in every room of my house, two in the kitchen, three (each for a different purpose) in my own sewing box, and one more that lives in the box of gift wrap.
Shower your kids with scissors, folks.
