So...

Alatariel75
Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
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So... if your neighbour, who you've spoken to all of twice in a year, knocks on your door and says they are moving out and can they leave some stuff in your fridge/freezer for a day because they are moving the fridge today but don't have power at the new place, and you say sure and they don't come back the next day... how long do you hang onto their stuff for before you chuck/eat it?

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    And by stuff I mean condiments, sauces, tomatoes, steak in the freezer, and some weird beauty regime stuff that apparently needs to be refrigerated.
  • justgowithit17
    justgowithit17 Posts: 1,392 Member
    just eat it all
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    Well we did eat the steak... it's been almost a week.
  • melissarina
    melissarina Posts: 113 Member
    That's just weird....
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    When the food's at risk of nearly expiring - it's yours to do what you'd like with. It'd have just gone to waste otherwise.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    they didn't leave you a phone number that you could call them on? I'd eat the food as it seems like they forgot about it. If it was me moving, I'd just give the food to a neighbour, i.e. "we're moving, this stuff won't survive the journey, I don't like wasting food, would you like any of it?"
  • quixoteQ
    quixoteQ Posts: 484
    . . . a seriously good prank that's never occurred to me. Duly noted.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    . . . a seriously good prank that's never occurred to me. Duly noted.

    I keep wondering...
  • dirtnap63
    dirtnap63 Posts: 1,387 Member
    From the looks of your avatar you're neighbour came back and you ate them too.
  • n8dawg77
    n8dawg77 Posts: 216 Member
    I did this once to my neighbours but instead I marinated it with my 'little swimmers' and got them all pregnant! I've got more kids running around than I even know about!
  • quixoteQ
    quixoteQ Posts: 484
    I did this once to my neighbours but instead I marinated it with my 'little swimmers' and got them all pregnant! I've got more kids running around than I even know about!

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    So I came home today to a note on the door asking me to message her with a time she can get her stuff... Seriously? 10 days later? It's all quite odd.
  • UticaBoy51
    UticaBoy51 Posts: 344 Member
    Chuck it!
  • Terasome
    Terasome Posts: 3,808 Member
    tell her you had to throw some of it out because you didnt think she was coming back. Is any of it still there?
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    So I came home today to a note on the door asking me to message her with a time she can get her stuff... Seriously? 10 days later? It's all quite odd.
    Time to go to the grocery store.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    Most of it, we just stole the steak haahaa. And I threw the tomatoes out because they were funky.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I've been asked some strange things by neighbors. We had some neighbors once that kept coming over to ask to borrow the toilet plunger. That's not really the sort of thing you want back. :noway:
  • benol1
    benol1 Posts: 867 Member
    Umm...
    if it were me, I wouldn't have agreed to store their stuff unless I knew them well.
    And coming back ten days later?? Sounds like they were taking advantage of you.
    kind regards,

    Ben
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    So... if your neighbour, who you've spoken to all of twice in a year, knocks on your door and says they are moving out and can they leave some stuff in your fridge/freezer for a day because they are moving the fridge today but don't have power at the new place, and you say sure and they don't come back the next day... how long do you hang onto their stuff for before you chuck/eat it?


    That exact thing happened to me! They never came back for it, so we now have their ice trays. We ate the food after about a week, but it was all freezer food. For fridge food, I wouldn't wait for it to go bad! :wink:
  • Terasome
    Terasome Posts: 3,808 Member
    Most of it, we just stole the steak haahaa. And I threw the tomatoes out because they were funky.

    I wouldnt be replacing the steak or the tomatoes,not after 10 days
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    Me either, I'd just say they went bad so I threw them out.

    Weird people :noway:
  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    I ended up with a really nice Weber grill when a neighbor asked to leave it for a week or two. They never came back for it.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,370 Member
    I ended up with a really nice Weber grill when a neighbor asked to leave it for a week or two. They never came back for it.

    Aw man, all I got was cheap steak, some home brand condiments and some whacky skin care stuff.
  • julialou1979
    julialou1979 Posts: 54 Member
    wait ten days to reply to the note - and eat everything that you can in the process. oh, and apply any applicable post beauty regime items left as well. 10 days worth.
  • serenapitala
    serenapitala Posts: 441 Member
    Most of it, we just stole the steak haahaa. And I threw the tomatoes out because they were funky.

    Tell them the truth. It was ten days, you couldn't have known they were coming back. I hope the steak was good :-)

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