r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 19h ago

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/Gloomy_Remove3298 18h ago

I had to scroll too far for this comment. Concerning that this is a thing with her tbh

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u/Any-Success-4887 16h ago

It reminds me of how my mom would randomly stock up on an item even though she had a lot at home. This was at the start of her dementia.

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u/LyaNoxDK 5h ago

Fuck. I’m doomed. I just bought a new mega box of q-tips at Costco because they were on sale only to realize I have 2 at home already.

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u/Dingaling015 18h ago

Tbh I don't know if the opinions of armchair psychology experts on reddit are something OP should be concerned about. 

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u/marcus_dobre_lover 17h ago

Thanks for this. My mom is 44, I guess it could be a mental health issue, but they were like $15 bucks so she brought them home. This was supposed to be a light hearted thing

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u/J5892 17h ago

When someone uses both the dollar sign and the word "bucks", in my head I read it as "fifteen dollarbucks".

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u/All_Work_All_Play 1h ago

Yooooo, one of my children used that term ones (specifically "That's a lot of dollarbucks") and it's been my personal head cannon ever since. There are literally dozens of us.

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u/Otherwise_Spirit1552 17h ago

For $15 that will make a shitload of lemon marmalade, lemon flavored liquers, lemon flavored pastries, frozen lemon juice cubes. etc.

Anyway, if she does that often with stuff like this and you guys have a garage etc I would recommend buying a large chest freezer if possible. I garden a lot and get similar tier produce gluts seasonally, and have to process them to storage. Those freezers alongside assorted types of baggies work amazing for that.

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u/thisdesignup 17h ago

Im curious since you said she does it often, does she end up using the things she randomly buys on sale in bulk?

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u/marcus_dobre_lover 17h ago

It usually ends up getting used but it’s always been items we could eat easily such as eggs, oranges, strawberries, etc. the lemons were a shock for sure

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u/DeafPapa85 17h ago

I say go with it. Lemons in the summer end, hard to go wrong, mix some up for lemonade, add other whole fruits etc...Citrus is a good source of vitamin c and antioxidants. If she doesn't mind squeezing half into juice, freeze it up into batches either to use in flavoring water in the winter. The pies and other contributions of use are perfectly fine as well, sorbet and sherbet to try or iced lemon. Shoot I'm getting hungry thinking about it too.

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u/PuppyJakeKhakiCollar 3h ago

If she can't find ways to use them all she can always put them in a basket in the front yard for neighbors to help themselves. 

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u/SeahorseRevolution 16h ago edited 16h ago

Is she doing a fad diet by any chance? I'm her age and roughly 20 years ago there was the "lemonade diet", for which you needed a fuckton of lemons or lemon juice.

edit: my second guess is ADHD which I also have and can attest to doing random shit on a whim bc it sounds like a really good idea at the time

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u/Disastrous-Ad2800 15h ago

but who's laughing now? who's laughing now, lemon boy? now get squeezin' we're getting thirsty here...

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u/colibrizona 6h ago

As someone with ADHD and a psych degree, this looks like textbook ADHD more than anything lol. I'm envisioning your mom seeing this amazing deal on lemons, knowing how nice lemons are, and dreaming of all the delicious lemon flavored things you're all going to make/eat with them.

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u/Vektor0 16h ago

If it's not mildly infuriating you, why did you post it to /r/mildlyinfuriating?

If it's supposed to be lighthearted, why not post it to a lighthearted subreddit?

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 14h ago

Why wouldn't having to find a use for a bunch of lemons unexpectantly be mildly annoying? It can be both lighthearted and mildly annoying. Not everything here has to be extremely serious

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u/colibrizona 6h ago

Agreed. There's a lot of stuff posted in this sub that are actually infuriating which I ironically find mildly infuriating

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u/cosmicspider31 15h ago

I'd bring that many lemons home for $15 too! They're a $1 Canadian each where I live 🤪