Help yourself to anything in the fridge 🙈

[Sundancer77]

So, I’m babysitting at a lovely villa for a lovely family for the second time.
Mum WhatsApped me when out to see if all ok and said ‘Oh I forgot to say, help yourself to anything in the fridge’
Normal stuff..I’m not really hungry, it’s all normal holiday bits in there..Halloumi cheese, dips, wine, random stuff really you can’t eat..BUT..there’s one bar of Black & Organics salted caramel dark chocolate in the fridge..with only a few neat pieces taken so far..(Mum very gorgeous, obviously health conscious, perhaps this is her treat 😬) would you take a few pieces? I robs my couldn’t stop once I start.. I’m so desperately trying not to, but it’s calling me 🙈I probably wouldn’t be that bothered if I was at home, but here? I have to have it..ffs.

Imagine if someone really did take this literally and filled their bag with everything in the fridge & cupboards etc..cf’s 😅

Eat all of it except one piece.

A couple of squares from an open/started chocolate is fine.

A slice piece of anything started/open is fine.

I wouldn't open a fresh packet of anything - even the halloumi could be something there are plans for.

The trick with what-if-I-can't-stop for chocolate is to have a non-chocolate thing after the 2 squares. Satsuma or other fruit is good.

@mindproject 😅

I always remember my sister hired a sitter and said the same. She came back and a few days later was about to watch a movie and she went to get her tub of Hagan daaz she'd been saving for a cosy night in. She confused to find it was already open with the plastic seal removed and was ridiculously light when she picked it up. When she opened it she said there was a teeny, tiny little bump of ice cream in the bottom, not even worth putting back. She was devastated and I couldn't stop laughing. A few weeks later Ben and Jerry's released a novelty ice cream lid that locked with a briefcase like lock. I had to get her it. I always laugh when I think of how fuming she was and she never hired the sitter again. Lighthearted banter though. Eat the choc!

@ShellsandSand A teeny, tiny bump of ice cream 😆 Now, that really does take the piss.

If I had told you to help yourself and you had polished off my chocolate then I would be annoyed - but only with myself for not hiding it.

“Help yourself to anything from the fridge” means “I forgot to put out any polite but-not-posh biscuits and the tea caddy and now I look rude, so I’m saying this to sound cool and friendly...but don’t actually eat anything from the fridge”.

@Sundancer77 I had tears from crying. She not posh at all (my sister) and shes ranting on about the sitter polishing off her bloody Hagan daaz. Why bother putting the tub back? So funny.

I can see the problem here - 'help yourself to anything' doesn't always mean exactly that though does it?!! Long story short but a neighbour had passed away and I'd helped get her house cleared as her closest relatives lived about 4 hrs drive away so it was easier for me to let people in to sort stuff out. Anyway the relatives were so grateful that they said 'Take anything you want' and said it several times - so I did. I took two beautiful potted plants from her garden. They were bloody heavy so used OH sack barrow to transport them, planted them in my garden and they looked lovely. Got a msg from the relative saying that they were coming to her house the following week to take the plants back to their house as they wanted to make a memorial garden with them. FFS - I had to dig them back up, re-pot them and wheel them both back across the road and make them look like they'd not been moved. They finally sold her home and I was talking to the new owner and told her about the plants. She said that the plants were mentioned in the contract that they would be taken once the sale had gone through. We did have a laugh about it but the relatives could have said ' take anything, absolutely anything you want - BUT NOT THE PLANTS'!! Check your contract OP - do they mention 'Do not eat my chocolate'?!! If not - go for it :)

I babysit/child mind a fair bit in the school holidays and 99% of parents say help yourself. My general rule of thumb is to eat “normal food” (mostly only snacks, so nothing that could have been bought for a special occasion) and not to open anything or finish anything.

Go on, indulge yourself if you haven't already. Your friend said you could help yourself to anything in the fridge, take her at her word and enjoy.

I ate the plastic tasting cheese straw thing and put the wrapper under other wrappers and crap midway down the bin, hidden away 🤷‍♀️🤣So, yep, I’m probably not gonna go for the choc

I used to babysit as a teenager 1000s of years ago. I did very bad things.

I wouldn’t. It would feel wrong.

Eat it and blame it on the kids

Oh, one of those women who enjoys “two squares of good quality chocolate” every day. 🙄

I do feel a bit of a twat ‘Babysitting’ as a fully grown woman and Mum myself, but the money is 👍and it’s not a tricky job really is it 😁
I would never have had a 15 year old me babysit for my Dd..Jesus

Because they never diet and never deny themselves anything. See, they even scoff chocolate.

Bollocks. Take it from an addict, two squares doesn’t touch the sides.

@escapade1234 Yes, I know 🤷‍♀️😆

@BazaarMum is exactly right about what ‘help yourself to anything in the fridge’ means.

*Jesus some people are weird about food. It's only a bit of chocolate. Calm down ladies.

If I told someone to help themselves then I'd mean anything is fine. Everything is replaceable.*

This. Plus it’s only green and black’s, it’s about £2 a bar at most

How much do you get an hour? Do you do it through an agency?

€15 per hour

i think if i was doing it professionally I'd just have a cup of tea and a biscuit. If there's no biscuits you should smash all the Ming vases in protest.