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What do you never have at home, that most people would always have?

316 replies

Hairymaery · 01/10/2022 22:30

I'll go first, we never have margarine, I just hate it, even though DH thinks it's the best! (sorry dh)

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Goawayangryman · 01/10/2022 23:24

Iron or ironing board - boring unnecessary waste of time.

Superfluous clothes or shoes. I have enough for a week. Don't see point of a huge wardrobe, zero interest in fashion really.

Superfluous stuff. Anything that isn't useful or beautiful I bung on eBay or take to the tip.

Also kitchen roll and most cleaning products save bleach. Unnecessary IMHO, just dilute any old disinfectant/surfactant, bob's your uncle.

God, that all sounds totally joyless. It's really not😁.

Helpmewithteen · 01/10/2022 23:25

Beans

StClare101 · 01/10/2022 23:25

video games, console etc.
ipad
juice
soft drink

TheRookie · 01/10/2022 23:25

Kitchen roll - just used muslin clothes instead

Spectre8 · 01/10/2022 23:26

Clocks, there are no clocks anywhere except the heating controller.

Savingpeoplehuntingthings · 01/10/2022 23:26

Cling film
Aluminium foil
A dishwasher
Cash
Sweetners for tea/coffee

Changechangychange · 01/10/2022 23:27

Salt. The one day of the year I want to make bread, I have to borrow some off my mum.

A TV (we watch on the laptop/ipad, we don’t have a big screen on the wall in the living room. Apparently that makes us weird).

QueSyrahSyrah · 01/10/2022 23:27

Ketchup
Margarine

My Mum never has tea bags, neither of them drink tea Confused

DahliaMacNamara · 01/10/2022 23:29

Coffee (can't always find teabags either)
Biscuits
Dishwasher
TV subscriptions, eg Sky, Netflix

Billyhargrovesmullet · 01/10/2022 23:30

Teles in bedrooms

Boxofsockss · 01/10/2022 23:32

tea bags. Don’t drink it.

FangsForTheMemory · 01/10/2022 23:32

Rarely have milk

Haven’t bought margarine in30 years

instant coffee

builders’ brew teabags

Purplecatshopaholic · 01/10/2022 23:32

Startuplife · 01/10/2022 22:48

Milk
coffee
bread
biscuits
juice
fizzy drinks

Im usually a great host but if people drop in unexpectedly I don’t have much to offer them except booze 😳

Me too. And I don’t drink alcohol either! The moral of the story here is don’t drop by Purplecat’s house without an invite, lol, so I have got stuff in!

Fixyourself · 01/10/2022 23:33

Cows breast milk. It’s for calves, not humans.

Shangrilalala · 01/10/2022 23:35

Curtains.

Backmebring · 01/10/2022 23:39

Dressing gowns. I don’t get it. They don’t stay closed, they aren’t comfortable to wear. No. Just no

Mylittlesandwich · 01/10/2022 23:40

Salt, my friends (now) ex husband refused to eat the meal we provided without salt.

SemperIdem · 01/10/2022 23:42

With you on margarine - it is the devils work.

Along with that - oven chips/any potato product, all disgusting.

alltoomuchrightnow · 01/10/2022 23:42

takeaways / any food delivered

cocavino · 01/10/2022 23:43

Margarine 🤢🤢🤢

FaintlyMacabre · 01/10/2022 23:43

I would really struggle to eat a meal without salt. Especially anything pasta/rice/potato related.
We don’t have kitchen roll or tissues.

User6761 · 01/10/2022 23:44

When I was younger and living on my own - mugs! My friend actually brought her own to leave at my flat 😂. (I don't like any hot drinks, and only ever drink out of glasses). Now I'm a proper grown up I have a shelf full of mugs but I've never actually used any of them

HikingforScenery · 01/10/2022 23:45

Fizzy drinks
white sugar

TheFormidableMrsC · 01/10/2022 23:46

Brown sauce

Barney60 · 01/10/2022 23:49

Cow's milk unless i know visitors are coming
Garlic in any form, can't stand the smell