Navigating the World of Leftovers
These rules will help.
My wife and I don’t see eye to eye on leftovers. Possibly because I generally don’t have any and she does. Still, she doesn’t always appreciate your leftovers as I do. She has even had some good leftovers go to waste. I could have intervened but was hamstrung by her narrow-minded attitude about, “her” leftovers. With that in mind, here are some rules for leftovers. Hopefully, it will make for family peace and better utilization of leftover food.
10: If you want it, put your name on it. Like an outfielder tracking a flyball, to avoid confusion call it. Another analogy is, “if you want it, put a ring on it.” The food equivalent is, if you want it, put your name on it. Otherwise, if someone else eats your leftovers, they have plausible deniability.
9: Regardless of which state you live in, the concept of, “community property”, may not apply to leftovers. I know it doesn’t with my wife. I even invoked the, “one flesh”, clause of our marriage, but it didn’t work.
8: When a particularly good leftover goes to waste, point it out to the owner. While it won’t help in that particular case, it may be of help in the future. It’s best if you don’t have to refer to past instances by name. don’t ask how I know.
