Woman Tired of Her Mother-in-Law 'Gifting' Her Family Expired Food
- - - Woman Tired of Her Mother-in-Law 'Gifting' Her Family Expired Food
Virginia ChamleeJune 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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One woman says she's had it with her mother-in-law's "landfill treasures"
In a post shared to Reddit, the woman writes that her mother-in-law is a "hoarder" who recently brought her family a large gift of expired food
While she normally bites her tongue, this time, the woman said the food "belongs in a dump"
A woman says her mother-in-law keeps gifting her family expired food — and she wants the trend to end.
In a post published on Reddit, the woman writes that she is four months postpartum and her mother-in-law recently paid her family a visit.
The woman adds that her mother-in-law is "a hoarder who buys useless trash on sale and then lets it rot in her closets and then eventually passes them off as 'gifts' to us."
"This time she decided to bring us three giant boxes of 'food,' " she adds. "I use quotations because all the food she gave us was 5-10 years past the expiry date. Pasta and cereal from 2015, pasta sauce that she bought on sale 6 years ago."
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While it's happened before, the woman adds that this time, she "lost it."
"Normally I bite my tongue and just throw out her 'landfill treasures' as soon as she leaves, but I lost my cool and just said 'This belongs in the dump. I can't even donate this to the local food bank because it's older than my first born,' " she writes.
Her mother-in-law then tried to say expiration dates are just "suggestions," and has been "pouting ever since."
"Monday can't come fast enough," the woman writes in ending her post.
Many other Reddit users are commiserating, with one writing, "Oh man, you are not alone in this expired food nightmare. It's wild how some MILs treat their kids' homes like a personal landfill annex. You told her not to bring anything, she brought it anyway. That's not a misunderstanding, that's straight-up disrespect."
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