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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am late to this conversation and maybe missed it last year.

Just wondering, what was your inlaws reaction (or what would it have been) if you just drove to the store and bought some cheese, crackers, fruit and sausages to keep on hand for people?

Why is it OK that this was a gift but not for you to just get for yourselves?[/quote]

In years past, when we have gone out to get groceries/go to a restaurant/get take-out, they keep talking and grumbling about it. "You had a HUGE breakfast; how can you want dinner?!" (Uh, because we didn't gorge ourselves just because there was a lot of food. We ate a normal amount of food and now want to eat again, several hours later.) So it's never that we wouldn't get food and take care of ourselves, it was that there was so much commentary.

I think with the "basket that I won," it's that there was this nice windfall of food, and it couldn't possibly go to waste...the idea of it going to waste or not taking advantage of a windfall maybe trumped the disturbing fact that we needed to eat again. Or something.

Oh well! Now "it's tradition" and Cheerful Dumb DIL will arrive tomorrow with her wares! :)[/quote]

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