Well… Funny you should say this, actually. Because my mum had stocked up on whole lotta food and drink for my sister, brother-in-law and niece coming to visit from Ireland. She (my mum) had bought all this - mainly well-known brand-name - food and drink months before they were set to arrive.
My oldest sister even tried to get an explanation for the reasoning behind this, our my mum just shrug her shoulders and laughed. :idontknow:
Anyway, our mum has all this food and drink stored away – behind the couch, in the storage room under the stairs – in the hope neither me or my sister will nag about it. She goes to unpack it all a week before the family visit… And it’s all out of date and had to be thrown out.
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Even when she was out shopping with my older sister, niece and brother-in-law, they – with exception of my niece – were constantly asking why she bought certain things and if she really needed them. But when my oldest sister and I do, we’re nagging and bullying.
But the hoarding is pretty bad, like generally speaking. It’s why I stopped going shopping with my mum because, whenever she’d say she was just going to get what she had on her shopping list, we’d end up coming away with bags and bags of stuff bought purely because the price was cheap. And we’d have spent like £60, and mum would be surprised and shocked by this.
Compare that with me when our mum went to Ireland for a week, and my sister and I were responsible for the shopping. We just went in, got what we need for the week ahead – a few treats (sweets, a couple magazine) – and that was it.
