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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only get mad when DH is thoughtless about the timing of using stuff up. He’ll do things like decide to have a late-night snack of cereal and milk topped off with some milk and cookies, using up what should have been enough milk for coffee and breakfast the next morning. So when the kids I get up the next morning for school/ work, we have no milk.[/quote]

At least in my house, this is exactly the problem. Wife has a plan for the remaining item and husband, unburdened by this mental load, uses it a different way and creates a new problem for her to solve. [/quote]

I don’t know that I agree with this. I’m the DW and grocery shopping/cooking is my chore. If I let the milk run so low that a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk dries us up and ruins breakfast, I didn’t do my job of keeping milk stocked properly. If I realize that I’m running low on something and I have a plan for the remaining amount, I also consider it my job to communicate that I have a need for that item and no one else is to touch it. Maybe it’s because I have teenagers who eat ungodly amounts of food and don’t think about meal planning as well as a DH, but our fridge is community property. If an item is marked reserved, that’s respected, but the idea that no one is allowed to touch the last 1/4-1/8 gallon of milk without my permission because I might be saving it for breakfast is foreign and absurd to me.

Of course with such a freewheeling attitude toward milk, I try to keep 2 gallons in the fridge, and when one gets emptied it goes on the shopping list while the reserve is tapped. I don’t try to cut it close and only buy milk the day I empty the only container in the refrigerator. I can see how that would lead to complications. (I know that’s a lot of milk talk but we generally have the same rules for most consumables-one in use and a spare for when that runs out. Replace when you start using the spare.)[/quote]

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