Everybody in a household has different roles. Good cop/bad cop, etc. Those roles depend largely upon personality and all sorts of other elements of a person's being.
In our house, Chris prefers ... ahem, demands (in a nice way) ... things stay organized. Things need to be just so, to avoid clutter. I agree, to a point. If it's something that doesn't work in a non-organized state, I'm all for keeping it tidy. For everything else ... eh, whatever.
That situation, in itself, is unremarkable. That dynamic is present almost everywhere, which is why things get odd when you open the jar of Nutella or peanut butter.
Chris, you see, is a stabber. Her preference for neat, orderly operations goes out the window when the lid comes off. She plunges the knife deep into the jar and scoops out a dollop of its contents - like a spoon.
I, on the other hand, am a skimmer. Let's use a knife for knify things - like skimming off the top, going layer by layer. My method keeps things smooth and easily accessible inside.
Chris' method looks like a crime scene; goop splattered all over the sides, holes all the way to the bottom ... it's unsettling.
My stance: Knifes, especially butter knives, are meant for skimming, not stabbing. Also, it's making a damn mess of the Nutella jar.
Your stance: In the comments.
Chris' stance: This should be interesting ...
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I agree the knife needs to be used to get every little part of jar contents out. I even sometimes use a spoon since it's not serrated and can really squeegie the sides.
I believe the wasteful practices can also transfer over to toothpaste tubes and the like. Do you fold the tube whereas Chris just squeezes? That's how it works in our household and I know I get my monies worth out of my tube of toothpaste.
I'm a skimmer, but in the case of Nutella, you have the confounding problem of who ate it all. The only answer for this is to each have your own jar with your name on it. As Jack gets older you may need to add a third jar and secret storage locations.
mike - neither of us roll or fold the toothpaste, but there's very little sent to the trash. And Chris gets all of the peanut butter or Nutella out of the jar, as well. It's just the maddening process by which it happens.
sydney - It's actually pretty easy, in our case, to figure out who ate it all. If the jar seems a bit light and there are stab marks inside, Chris did it. If it's smooth - all me.
Jack is on his way to his own jar. He likes his 'chocolate toast.'
it doesn't matter which way you do it. by definition of marriage you are wrong
Ah, see - that's the newlywed's assumption of how things roll. After 10 years, I can say that's not the case.
Buy her a jar of Vegemite....that will make her think twice about gobbing it on.
Munson: I squeeze in the middle until it starts to run out, then I go from the end.
Sydney: Agreed. I'm pretty sure Bryan eats more even if it looks like I do!
Joshua: No way! I don't glob it on my toast... Just stab as I'm getting the perfect amount out!
Thank you and good night.
I transfer my peanut butter to a frosting applicator and then apply it to my knife. Either that or with a quick shake I dump the contents onto the plate and rub my toast on it. Kind of a reverse engineering thing.
Brian - I suppose you really hate it when the excess gets scraped off the knife along the rim. Maybe you could use a narrow puddy knife to keep the surface of the Nutella perfectly level in the jar.
Oh, and my gripe (if you can call it that) is when the Nutella gets put in the refrigerator. It clearly says on the packaging - Do Not Refrigerate. Cold Nutella is gross - the consistency gets ruined by refrigeration. My solution - I write "NO FRIDGE" in thick letters on the top of the lid.
As long as we're talking Nutella, here is my recipe for the ultimate pre/post ride sandwich: Bread (preferably whole grain or wheat), Nutella, peanut butter (preferably all natural), and banana. Simple, but awesome.
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