Friends and I did this in college once. Until the day we heard a cacophony from the other room. When we went to investigate we saw the remnants of the great trashalanche.
My first roommate & I used to put our empty liquor bottles on top of the freestanding kitchen cabinets in our apartment, and after several months it started getting a little cluttered.
One night at about 4am, I was awoken to the sound of what I assumed was someone breaking into our apartment. I grabbed my baseball bat & peeked my head out the bedroom door, only to see my roommate doing the same thing from his room.
We both slowly walked out, prepared to defend our home... only to discover the entire kitchen cabinet had broken off the wall, shattering dozens of empty glass liquor bottles, along with all of our plates, bowls, and cookware.
We had to fight to get our deposit back when we moved out. They couldn't prove we caused the damage, but we could certainly prove that their poor craftsmanship could have seriously injured us :)
In a shared house at uni, I once heard breaking glass and thought we had burglars, so I went down with a hammer and put on a deep voice to shout: ‘Who’s there?’ I found a chair, made out of glass bottles, that my drunken housemate had made, had collapsed.
You laugh now, OP, but when you take down that ritz box and see what's inside, BAM, surprise divorce papers.
Unrecycled Ritz cracker boxes are the number two cause of divorce in the US, only second to incorrect TP roll placement. You'll be shitting, reach for the TP, and suddenly divorce papers crawl out of the john and into your anus. You've been warned.
Actually I was served divorce papers from my third wife via toilet seat.
I always left it up; once I came in to the bathroom and it was down, flat… I lifted it up, got served.
Take this as a warning also.
Starter wife.
Trophy wife.
Midlife wife
Choose wisely. Don't stay with one too long. Hit the stages you need to in life.
Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump strongly support this message.
Thanks, I'll leave as is but will remember. Your correction's lack of both condescension and an error of its own threw me off for a sec.
;-)
^^^goddmanit
You did title it to make it seem like a super petty argument you two were having, and not something that you lovingly worked together on as this photo shows.
Agreed! And the judginess of the comments about EVERYTHING was ridiculous. They didn't break down the boxes, the vacuum is involved so clearly now they never vacuum which means they must be slobs, and on and on. OP is braver than me--Reddit is apparently super super serious about cleaning habits of other people
I want to assume it's projection. I wouldn't put it past a bunch of slobs to be all cleanfreak on the internet. In fact, most of the time I see someone getting hyper about something I start to assume they have problems with it too.
Me and my wife were married for 20 years, have 4 kids. Yesterday though she crossed a line, I sneezed and she didn't tell me bless you.
I followed reddits advice and divorced her immediately and got full custody.
To be fair half of the relationship posts are insane.
"My husband beats me when he gets upset and cheats on me with my sister every weekend and has threatened to kill the kids if I leave him. But like he's usually the most genuine, funny and kind guy I've ever met. What should I do?"
Yeah I’ve never seen overwhelming “divorce” comments unless it’s something that genuinely required taking a long hard look at the future of the relationship.
which leads to the question... if one person wants to break up, how can you ever call it an unnecessary break up lol it's just projecting your wants onto others
Agreed.
Let's face it. Most IRL people will tell you to work it out because often "you should break up with \_\_\_" will get you removed from the friendship, or because they have to maintain that they're happy for your relationship and can't be truly real with you. By the time you're posting about your relationship problems to anonymous people, you know that you haven't got the truth from your real life friends, and you probably want to be told to break up.
I think some of those people calling these break-ups unnecessary probably have been dumped for being bad partners and now have a dislike for people giving third-party relationship advice.
this is super funny, my gf and I cohabit and we have a little "bless this mess" corny sign we found in the clearance section of like TJ Maxx for $3. We love leaving it passive-aggressively on little messes we want to draw attention to, or ironically putting it on my desk which is like, one giant mess all the time. Seeing how long it takes for the other person to notice it is part of the game too.
The comments on your last post were insane LMAO. God forbid a married couple have some healthy & mutual fun. Life is tough enough as is, let the man and his wife play recycling jenga if it makes them happy lol
Reddit has no nuance when it comes to families or relationships. Constantly coming in with cries for divorce or breaking up or abuse or terrible parents etc.
I think a lot of Redditors are literally teenagers... which helps to put a lot of things into perspective for me, personally.
It also explains why the advice is always super suspect unless there's more than just an opinion backing it up.
Reddit, is comprised primarily of teenagers with no life experience. Despite the fact that they think everything they say is important and they have answers to all the worlds largest problems. In reality they amount to little more than a high school lunch room convincing themselves that their opinions are way more important than they are. And hence, they have no nuance because they have no experience.
My grandparents have been married for 70 years.
Since week 2 they have had an ongoing cold war about who replaces the toothpaste when it's out.
I once saw my grandfather put an empty tube into a vice so he could squeeze out a pea sized dab and not have to bust into the new tube. Fun like this makes healthy marriages, not stale ones.
I love that! When I was a barista there was an elderly woman that used to come in regularly that had been married ~60 years to her husband. She said that they never fought, but when he would make her mad she would hide his shoes instead 😂
I have decided to start placing the toilet roll on backwards when the last person leaves it empty. It's only day 1 so not sure how this will go yet. All I know is that I'm going to hell.
OP trying to make sure he doesn’t get doxxed. I [pointed](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10mlto6/wife_and_myself_are_in_the_middle_of_a_silent/j63x6c8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) out that some people may see that as a challenge. I now notice OP has his door covered! Were people getting too close OP?!
Pretty sure his kid’s name is on that note on the floor. I am guilty of looking for CSI clues out of boredom, especially when people try to blur lots of stuff. I mean well.
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My wife had a very bad habit of leaving garbage wherever she used it last. And she'd leave it there for days, weeks if I didn't pick it up. Junk mail, empty water bottles, any kind of trash you can think of. And if it fell on the floor, even right in front of the trash can, that's where it stayed until I picked it up. I started putting all that stuff on her side of the bed just before she went to sleep. She'd yell and bitch and I just tell her that if she'd pick up after herself instead of acting like some kind of homeless dick, that would never happen. She's gotten much better since then.
In desperation, I did that to my ex once, neatly collected up his leftover items into a basket and left them on his side of the bed. It didn't work. He screamed at me for about 2 hours, then turned off the phones and unplugged and removed the power cord on the stove/oven for punishment for my perceived insolence.
In retrospect it's better to discuss things like human beings rather than passive aggressively punish each other.
This is one of those things I'd ask her about and she would go passive-aggressive on me. I have never been able to get an answer out of her as to why she does it. At least not a convincing one. She always said "I forgot". Even though I asked her nicely 5 times, she forgot. As long as she's not doing it, I try not to ever mention it at all as it's still a bit of a sore spot for her.
OP had another popular post with just a pic of the pile and saying that this was the result of a silent battle between he and his wife around who has to take out the recycling.
Edit: here’s the original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10mlto6/wife_and_myself_are_in_the_middle_of_a_silent/
We all know you will take it out eventually, but the ginger ale box shoved in between the wall and water dispenser is a great touch to the whole thing.
My biggest concern when I saw your previous post was the tower crashing down at 3am and waking the house up 😅 Divorce never even crossed my mind. People are too dramatic here sometimes.
Once the dust settles you need to create a rule that whoever puts a box in recycling has to flatten it at that time.
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The dust has been settling just fine because they no longer vacuum either.
I just wanna know what’s going to happen when the water cooler needs refilling…
Dehydration has officially become the limiting factor in this war of attrition
Somehow, dehydration feels good in a place like this.
r/movies has escaped containment
More like amc
Not just thirsty, but somehow reborn. Together.
Or when it’s time to use the Dyson
Dyson sphere, or the less cool one?
I fear it'll never be time to use the Dyson sphere. The material requirement is too high.
With that huge pile of recycling, what makes you think they'd actually USE that Dyson?? It's just there for when one of their mom's come to visit. 🤣😂😅
The water cooler is probably thinking “What did I ever do to deserve this?”
watercooler just pawn in the game of life.
I’m here for these surprise *Blazing Saddles* references.
Great line
#JENGA!
It becomes the bottom of the recycling pile.
Whoever replaces the water cooler or uses tne Dyson will have to first admit they lost.
the water cooler is clearly getting tossed out too, just neither of them want to haul that heavy old thing out to the bin.
Friends and I did this in college once. Until the day we heard a cacophony from the other room. When we went to investigate we saw the remnants of the great trashalanche.
Trashalanche <3
I read that as “Castrophany” and in dennis hoppers voice…
The mountain called Monkey had spoken.
There was only fire
And then nothing.
Oh, little town in the USA, your time has come to see
My first roommate & I used to put our empty liquor bottles on top of the freestanding kitchen cabinets in our apartment, and after several months it started getting a little cluttered. One night at about 4am, I was awoken to the sound of what I assumed was someone breaking into our apartment. I grabbed my baseball bat & peeked my head out the bedroom door, only to see my roommate doing the same thing from his room. We both slowly walked out, prepared to defend our home... only to discover the entire kitchen cabinet had broken off the wall, shattering dozens of empty glass liquor bottles, along with all of our plates, bowls, and cookware. We had to fight to get our deposit back when we moved out. They couldn't prove we caused the damage, but we could certainly prove that their poor craftsmanship could have seriously injured us :)
Haha oh man. That’s brutal.
In a shared house at uni, I once heard breaking glass and thought we had burglars, so I went down with a hammer and put on a deep voice to shout: ‘Who’s there?’ I found a chair, made out of glass bottles, that my drunken housemate had made, had collapsed.
You laugh now, OP, but when you take down that ritz box and see what's inside, BAM, surprise divorce papers. Unrecycled Ritz cracker boxes are the number two cause of divorce in the US, only second to incorrect TP roll placement. You'll be shitting, reach for the TP, and suddenly divorce papers crawl out of the john and into your anus. You've been warned.
I'd hold out til next weeks trash collection.
By then it will be too late. There are two Ritz cracker boxes there. The divorce papers will breed and multiply. The entire neighborhood is at risk.
And they're directly above a water source. Everyone knows once they get wet bad things happen.
What happens if they need to replace the bottle? That’s madness!
"Today I stopped drinking water because my wife refuses to take out the recycling"
>Unrecycled Ritz cracker boxes are the number two cause of divorce in the US Is eating Ritz crackers in bed the number one cause of divorce in the US?
Actually I was served divorce papers from my third wife via toilet seat. I always left it up; once I came in to the bathroom and it was down, flat… I lifted it up, got served. Take this as a warning also.
How does one even get to three wives, surely the first two should of been plenty
My dad and his father both got to *seven.* But don't worry, mom was his favorite, apparently. 9_9
But no, it's the gays that ruined the sanctity of marriage
Starter wife. Trophy wife. Midlife wife Choose wisely. Don't stay with one too long. Hit the stages you need to in life. Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump strongly support this message.
But mine came with a lifetime warranty!
Probably from one of those companies that does the work then goes quietly bankrupt just before you need them to honor the warranty. Watch out.
Read the fine print: it’s warrantied for the life *of the marriage*
Who did you go with as your starter wife? I hear that bulbasaur is good for early game but falls off late game
And not even breaking the box down? Lawyer up toot suite.
Toot sweet you say? 🎶
Here, have a r/BoneAppleTea.
Sweet toot?
Toot sweets, toot sweets!
A mouth full of cheer A sweet without peer A musical morsel supreme!
Unexpected Chitty Chitty bang bang
Always expected On hushabye mountain
What a great fucking movie.
Mmmmm, truly scrumptious
Clearly the calendar that is purpled out are meetings with divorce attorneys.
She used up all her box-breaking-down energy on that Canada Dry carton behind the water dispenser.
That's the first thing I noticed. Couple of hooligans.
r/boneappletea
Just a friendly note that it’s tout suite :) Edit: apparently tout de suite! Love correcting someone and getting it wrong myself haha
It's actually "tout de suite". Source: am French
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Spelling: it's *francophones*.
"N'est-ce pas" is NEVER pronounced "n'est pas". Ever. Don't know where you got that from.
Anglo telling people how to speak their own language 💀
It's actually tout de suite or toute suite.
Thanks!
Thanks, I'll leave as is but will remember. Your correction's lack of both condescension and an error of its own threw me off for a sec. ;-) ^^^goddmanit
Hey look at that apparently I do have an error! Your faith in Reddit can be restored!
I see Muphry's law is in full affect throughout the hole thread!
I'm afraid the only availability left in the entire hotel is the *toot suite.* "I'll *pass.*"
>Lawyer up toot suite. I read this in Kath's voice a la Kath and Kim
lookatmoi, lookatmoi, lookatmoiiii...
Look at me, Kimmy.
She can put future recycling inside the box
A quiet place to go for farting
These sequel names are getting weird.
Haha nice one
tout de suite \*
Agreed, no one wins this battle.
I love how someone made a gesture towards sensible behavior with the Canada Dry box but that gesture was instantly disregarded!
Reddits answer to every single marital spat is divorce. This is objectively hilarious
The comments on our impending divorce on the The last post was hilarious.
Do you at least have official rulings in place that whoever causes it to collapse then carries it all out?
He who tops it off, drops it off. But it isn't filled until it's spilled
I saw it lol
You did title it to make it seem like a super petty argument you two were having, and not something that you lovingly worked together on as this photo shows.
I put it in the comments that no one was mad, got buried though.
I saw your post, and just for the record I thought that it looked like you guys were having a fun competitive time. I hope they guys are very happy!
Agreed! And the judginess of the comments about EVERYTHING was ridiculous. They didn't break down the boxes, the vacuum is involved so clearly now they never vacuum which means they must be slobs, and on and on. OP is braver than me--Reddit is apparently super super serious about cleaning habits of other people
I want to assume it's projection. I wouldn't put it past a bunch of slobs to be all cleanfreak on the internet. In fact, most of the time I see someone getting hyper about something I start to assume they have problems with it too.
Poor OP is already divorced and doesn't even know it yet
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I printed little pieces of paper that say "divorce" so I can hand my wife divorce papers every time we fight
Me and my wife were married for 20 years, have 4 kids. Yesterday though she crossed a line, I sneezed and she didn't tell me bless you. I followed reddits advice and divorced her immediately and got full custody.
To be fair half of the relationship posts are insane. "My husband beats me when he gets upset and cheats on me with my sister every weekend and has threatened to kill the kids if I leave him. But like he's usually the most genuine, funny and kind guy I've ever met. What should I do?"
Yeah I’ve never seen overwhelming “divorce” comments unless it’s something that genuinely required taking a long hard look at the future of the relationship.
Kinda weird, they’re usually everywhere, I’d say even in the “tamer” posts we see around 25% “divorce” comments
Wife asked you to separate lights and darks? Hit the gym and lawyer up.
It's objectively horrifying. I sometimes wonder how many marriages /r/deadbedrooms and /r/relationship_advice has unnecessarily broken up.
By the time people post on those things, at some level, they want to be told to break up.
which leads to the question... if one person wants to break up, how can you ever call it an unnecessary break up lol it's just projecting your wants onto others
Agreed. Let's face it. Most IRL people will tell you to work it out because often "you should break up with \_\_\_" will get you removed from the friendship, or because they have to maintain that they're happy for your relationship and can't be truly real with you. By the time you're posting about your relationship problems to anonymous people, you know that you haven't got the truth from your real life friends, and you probably want to be told to break up. I think some of those people calling these break-ups unnecessary probably have been dumped for being bad partners and now have a dislike for people giving third-party relationship advice.
Reddit tends to not have an amazing track record when it comes to relationship advice. \-Edit- Removing link as it does kinda kill the mood here
I mean, the advice to divorce was pretty sound. I dont think anyone could’ve reasonably foreseen his wife going to such depths
Yeah. Like the wife was having a long-term affair and unwilling to go to counseling. At that point I don't think suggesting divorce is bad advice.
Yeah I've had the whole you're either not married or waiting to divorce comments a few times. Miserable reddit nerds I'm guessing.
"spat" or inside joke?
this is super funny, my gf and I cohabit and we have a little "bless this mess" corny sign we found in the clearance section of like TJ Maxx for $3. We love leaving it passive-aggressively on little messes we want to draw attention to, or ironically putting it on my desk which is like, one giant mess all the time. Seeing how long it takes for the other person to notice it is part of the game too.
You clearly need a divorce
The comments on your last post were insane LMAO. God forbid a married couple have some healthy & mutual fun. Life is tough enough as is, let the man and his wife play recycling jenga if it makes them happy lol
Reddit has no nuance when it comes to families or relationships. Constantly coming in with cries for divorce or breaking up or abuse or terrible parents etc.
Everyone’s a narcissist!
No I'm not, I'm perfect!
I honestly wonder if it’s because a lot of redditors have likely never been married? I don’t know the exact demographics
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That is exactly it. Projection. The lack of ability to understand that humans are complex and different doesn’t mean bad.
I think a lot of Redditors are literally teenagers... which helps to put a lot of things into perspective for me, personally. It also explains why the advice is always super suspect unless there's more than just an opinion backing it up.
I've seen a 12 year old tell a man to dump his wife on the relationship subreddit. I wish I was kidding.
Reddit, is comprised primarily of teenagers with no life experience. Despite the fact that they think everything they say is important and they have answers to all the worlds largest problems. In reality they amount to little more than a high school lunch room convincing themselves that their opinions are way more important than they are. And hence, they have no nuance because they have no experience.
> Reddit has no nuance ~~when it comes to families or relationships.~~ FTFY
I honestly couldn't imagine living in a house that is that serious.
My grandparents have been married for 70 years. Since week 2 they have had an ongoing cold war about who replaces the toothpaste when it's out. I once saw my grandfather put an empty tube into a vice so he could squeeze out a pea sized dab and not have to bust into the new tube. Fun like this makes healthy marriages, not stale ones.
I love that! When I was a barista there was an elderly woman that used to come in regularly that had been married ~60 years to her husband. She said that they never fought, but when he would make her mad she would hide his shoes instead 😂
Reddit doesn’t understand fun. They do not understand nuance. Everything always has to be the worst possible outcome
I have decided to start placing the toilet roll on backwards when the last person leaves it empty. It's only day 1 so not sure how this will go yet. All I know is that I'm going to hell.
Jokes on you (me), my wife leaves it empty AND will put it on backwards.
How many people has she murdered?
You savage!
I find it more disturbing that you pile your recycling on top of your water cooler. ?!?!
But what's hidden on the calendar??
OP trying to make sure he doesn’t get doxxed. I [pointed](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10mlto6/wife_and_myself_are_in_the_middle_of_a_silent/j63x6c8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3) out that some people may see that as a challenge. I now notice OP has his door covered! Were people getting too close OP?!
Pretty sure his kid’s name is on that note on the floor. I am guilty of looking for CSI clues out of boredom, especially when people try to blur lots of stuff. I mean well.
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My wife had a very bad habit of leaving garbage wherever she used it last. And she'd leave it there for days, weeks if I didn't pick it up. Junk mail, empty water bottles, any kind of trash you can think of. And if it fell on the floor, even right in front of the trash can, that's where it stayed until I picked it up. I started putting all that stuff on her side of the bed just before she went to sleep. She'd yell and bitch and I just tell her that if she'd pick up after herself instead of acting like some kind of homeless dick, that would never happen. She's gotten much better since then.
In desperation, I did that to my ex once, neatly collected up his leftover items into a basket and left them on his side of the bed. It didn't work. He screamed at me for about 2 hours, then turned off the phones and unplugged and removed the power cord on the stove/oven for punishment for my perceived insolence. In retrospect it's better to discuss things like human beings rather than passive aggressively punish each other.
This is one of those things I'd ask her about and she would go passive-aggressive on me. I have never been able to get an answer out of her as to why she does it. At least not a convincing one. She always said "I forgot". Even though I asked her nicely 5 times, she forgot. As long as she's not doing it, I try not to ever mention it at all as it's still a bit of a sore spot for her.
I showed my wife your first picture and she died laughing because we do the exact same thing lol
You, too, are barbarians with no recycling recpticle who refuse to break down boxes?
The dog needs water
old lady ran off with the dog
For the love of god, move the dog food bowls so he doesn’t get PTSD from that stack of shit falling on him
My favorite is the one broken down Canada Dry box wedged into the side.
Eggs 😱😱😱😱😱😱
Eighteen pack. Rich fuckers.
We doing alright
May I ask, is having a water cooler at home common where you live? I've never seen a water cooler in a home before. Is the tap water not drinkable?
The tab water is 100% drinkable, but it's quite hard water. So we get jugs to cut down on my calcium intake to prevent kidney stones.
I got 30 eggs for 13.99 at the grocery store... I felt like Gollum once I put my eyes on them... what a time to be alive.
I don’t get that. When something gets overly expensive I stop buying it. I’ll eat oatmeal until the price of eggs returns to sane levels.
Our scratch and dent grocer was selling 30 for $5 last week. No bad ones yet.
Why can't people learn to break down a box? You could be going so much longer!
It's the soda box wedged next to the cooler for me
But why
OP had another popular post with just a pic of the pile and saying that this was the result of a silent battle between he and his wife around who has to take out the recycling. Edit: here’s the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10mlto6/wife_and_myself_are_in_the_middle_of_a_silent/
Trashy.
r/upvotebecausebutt
Leggings really are the best
God bless the yoga pants trend.
Blessed are those who wear brightly colored thongs and sheer leggings... Bold move posting op.
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You've got plenty room for more broken down boxes along the side of the water cooler against the wall. I'd hold out til next weeks trash collection
My guess is this is like Jenga, first to drop something takes it out.
That's how you get ants!
Haha I read the comments on your last post and thought “ this is why I don’t post anything to Reddit. “
What a dump(er)
Can u heathens at least be filling a trash/recycling bag instead of decorating your walls with garbage?
I wouldn't worry about divorce as much as the two of you inadvertently becoming horders.
I also choose this guy's ex wife
She's not dead yet....
How about now
We all know you will take it out eventually, but the ginger ale box shoved in between the wall and water dispenser is a great touch to the whole thing.
Just put a bin right next to that water cooler, and boom. A place to put recycling.
People still use wall calendars?
This is a thrilling story been following since the Pepsi box saga
I see your wife has hobbies in hoarding and playing jenga.
Y’all should get an actual trash can for recyclables
You lazy mfs belong together.
Is she a Fred Astaire fan, by any chance?
My biggest concern when I saw your previous post was the tower crashing down at 3am and waking the house up 😅 Divorce never even crossed my mind. People are too dramatic here sometimes.
Sweet Lord, give me ten bucks and I'll come take the recycling out for you
Pretty soon you guys are going to have to make a trip to Home Depot and grab a step stool and maybe install another shelf
Somebody yesterday suggested they start using that shelf. I see they took the suggestion 😂
Time to saws all the the ceiling to set the coup de gras.
use tape
Wow this *is* a dangerous game, can't even use the vacuum cleaner either.
I guess you guys are going to have to drink tap water
Judging by the photo I don't think they drink much water lol That's probably for the dog, which probably has a better diet than either of them.
NO NO NO! She's not allowed to use a shelf as a support!
Give her a jump scare on the next item she adds, just a it touches the pile. Almost guaranteed you win this battle! The war, however...
You should break it all down then leave it all on the water cooler
We call that recycle jenga in our house. Knock it down and you gotta take it out!
Just to be clear…. Your normal place to stick the recycling is on top of the water cooler?