Is this a bit excessive?

[Iamnotagoddess]

This is petty and lighthearted before anyone wades in.

DH thinks IABU but when DS and I are here alone all week we probably use 4 pints of milk in the weekdays (1 big container).

DS is away and DH is here with his 2 teenage DC.

DH and I have 1 cup of coffee in the morning, thats it. His DC have unlimited cups of tea and we are getting through 4 pints of milk a day. IMHO this is excessive and a bit ridiculous.

Am 1?

using the last bit is unacceptable. But it's ok for you??

If the person using the last bit hasn’t informed the person responsible for replenishing it that it’s running low then yes it’s unacceptable.

That's an insane amount of milk. Demand that they bring you a cow as compensation

Is it for cereal too? If it’s just for tea then Jesus, do they have any tea with their milk?!

I have four DC and we get through about 4 pints a day easy but that’s DP and I with tea/coffee and the DC with cereal.

if they're only using milk in tea with sugar and getting through that much, they're getting too much sugar and caffeine.

If this were in coffee and therefore a latte would anyone be bothered or is it because it is tea?

I have 2 teenage sons, they inhale food. Ds1 who is 16 drinking 1 litre of apple juice a day is the norm, we go though a lot of cows milk although I make Dh oat milk as he prefers it.

The crux is the selfishness displayed in your house over using the last of the milk. I would make the person responsible go to the shop to replenish. Or just plan ahead, hide milk in a container they wouldn't touch ie a washed out prune juice carton

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* using the last bit is unacceptable. hmm But it's ok for you??*
It's clearly different if someone wants it for their single cup of coffee, compared with someone using it up on their tenth cup of tea!

The eating everything to the last item with no thought for others is the one thing I have raised with my DP as unacceptable with my step kids - last milk, last of the juice, all the biscuits - drove me potty. Mine never do that,and always ask if they can finish something.

We have started a cupboard for the kids (yours, when it’s gone there is no more and no starting in on the other family snacks) and extra milk with one labelled ‘tea and cereal’ and one ‘drinking’ in the big shop. All of ours eat and drink like locusts.

@Isthisafreename

sat here laughing my arse off at 4 pints are excessive

we go through 24 pints a day, every day,thats 6 4 pinters

i NEED/USE milk as medicine as i have bad GERD and drink 16 pints(more on a bad day)as milk neutralizes the acid and stops it coming back up

then the 8 y old goes through a 4 pinter just for him(lots of milkshakes and cereals) just for him

the oldest and partner then share a 4 pinter between them

i have a small fridge just for milk

youngest has no off button when it comes to food and drink because of disabilities and eats numerous times a day and night(doesnt sleep).and tbh we are in the financial position to let him

Hardly comparable though is it?

I’d be pissed off too, I have a teen who regularly drinks milk but will always ask if it’s ok to finish it. But then he knows I’ll send him to the shop to replace it, especially if he leaves a thimbleful in the bottom!

It’s milk. Big deal. You might have been bought up post war OP but I couldn’t resent my kids or step kids milk. It’s just so tight.

Do they come and stay unexpectedly? If not, and you know they drink a lot of milk, I don't understand why you just don't buy extra for when they're there. Unless you genuinely can't afford the extra £1.20?

YABU Be pleased they're drinking plenty of milk as they're still growing. Keep the top shelf in the fridge for Do Not Touch stuff - including a sealed spare pint of milk and any ingredients you need to reserve for planned meals.

And count yourself lucky you don't come home to find someone's bitten the end off the cheese - eww!

I wasn’t brought up post war

Hmm also 1kg gone over 4 days

This is a new thing that’s why I haven’t gone a brought armfuls of milk and I wouldn’t put up with my own kids drinking excessive hot milky sugary drinks, with the sugar too they clearly can’t be trusted to exercise decent judgement over it.

1kg of Sugar sorry

A 500g bag of sugar lasts months here, let alone 1kg. Adults shouldn't be having more than 30g a day. A teaspoon is 4g, so that would be 250 cups of tea if they were adding one spoon!

Gosh I thought this was light hearted but you actually do see, to be clutching at your arse cheeks over how much milk and sugar these kids have in their tea.

Seriously?

Stick some in the freezer and don't tell them

I buy 5 4 pinters a week and sometimes top up by Friday for a family of 5. It's not an unreasonable amount and I don't begrudge my children groceries. Sometimes the kids drink milk, sometimes water. Sometimes they have cereal, sometimes toast. It's not a massive cost implication or inconvenience

DH regularly drinks 4 pints a day all by himself, but he doesn’t do it with any predictable pattern. Dd and I use a different percentage, partly because I don’t like skimmed milk, but mostly because it means I can rely on there being milk available.

We use a milkman with an app, we can order more milk up to midnight and it's on the doorstep before even the baby is awake in the morning. I couldn't get that het up about milk...

I would just put a rubber band around one carton. Make it a rule that no one can open that last carton without checking with you first. That way you can let people know what amount they can have so that everyone has a bit for essentials until it can be restocked.

The milk is annoying but whatever, my concern was always over the inconsiderate behaviour and the amount of sugar they are using, and clearly I was right to be a bit concerned or maybe I should just give them a bag of sugar, 2 spoons and let them crack on.