I made this mistake with "Ruffles" - a chocolate-covered coconut snack.

I mentioned I liked them, and for the next year or two, every week my grandpa would stop by to give us 2-3 boxes of ruffles. We had a cupboard literally full of them, we were giving them away, and I ate so many that the thought of them makes me feel queasy now. We kept telling him to stop, but the man was on a mission.

Sadly, he passed away last year, and I made sure to bring a couple boxes of Ruffles to the service.

This is literally the situation with my mother in law.

My SO is an only child and I would describe her mom as having more money than sense (at least when it comes to her kid), so we're careful about mentioning anything that we need to go and buy or anything like that around her, or we're going to get a month's supply of that thing, every time we visit for the next six months.

I'm pretty sure we said little more than "we should pick up toilet paper on the way home"... Next time we were there, my trunk was filled with the stuff.

So we're rather careful about what we mention around her. She means well, but I don't have the space to support her filling up my home with toiletries on the mention of having to buy it.

I appreciate that she cares but we take care of ourselves in that respect.

This honestly would have been kind of nice. My grandparents were the old school "children should be seen and not heard" types and would have condemned orange juice in this instance as a reckless extravagance.

I recently saw some videos about people freeze drying orange juice. Could be an option here.

My grandmother always had hard boiled eggs in the fridge and seltzer in the siphon. How did she do that? Do you know how many times I've tried to accomplish that on a regular basis?

Imagine having a grandpa

Me: "yeah, David [the toy from bd] is pretty nice"

Grandpa: fucking dies

Can someone please mention to their grandparents they like the Barbie movie? Thanks.

If you can, please drink freshly squeezed OJ, otherwise you're tasting... Dunno, it tastes nothing like actual oranges..

Doesn’t have to be that old, man: my first is in college now. I no longer consume enough for Costco to be a good value, but you bet that if he mentions he wants something, I’m on my way to Costco

Weird how grandparents work. My parents treat my kids like their little angels, they want to take em on day trips constantly and always ask to borrow them for an outing. My wife's parents have never once taken the kids or spent much time with them beyond family gatherings. I once asked me wife's mom if she ever wanted to take the kids for the day and hang out, she actually said "Ugh I'm done with cleaning up after kids". They love the kids but they just want them to exist and now interact with them much.