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I want to create a real life Room 101

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MissLambsAcademyForYoungLadies · 30/01/2025 18:34

So here’s the deal - I have an aversion to foul smelling foods, but I am a good mother who provides said foul smelling foods for my teen DC because they like them.

I have a rule that all waste from such foul smelling foods must be immediately placed in the outside bins and not in the kitchen/food waste bin so as not to contaminate the air in the house any further. I have also, on occasion jokingly asked the teens to eat their foul smelling foods outside.

I have come up with a solution - I just need circa £10K to build a properly insulated garden room with heat and light, for the sole purpose of preparing and consuming foul smelling foods. A real life Room 101 as it were.

For now, the items going into Room 101 are as follows:

  • Over-ripe bananas (which in reality means all bananas because apparently the banana-eaters in this house are incapable of eating them before them become over-ripe)
  • Eggs
  • Fish
  • Pot Noodles
  • Cheese and Onion Crisps (I know this is sacrilege seeing as I am born and bred in NI - but Tayto are the worst offenders here)

I may add other things to Room 101 as time goes on. (Perhaps a playlist of the crap music my teens like to listen to while they eat dinner could be added)

I think real life room 101s in people’s gardens could save the sanity of a lot of parents. What would you put in your real life Room 101?

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MrsJHernandez · 30/01/2025 19:14

I also put smelly stuff in a dog poo bag and straight into the outside bin. Including - raw meat scraps and packaging, anything vinegary, curry, leftovers, fish & eggs.

In my own personal Room 101 would be:

All bananas (under ripe, over ripe, ripe they're all minging!)
Raspberries
Tomato seeds and the jelly bit
Taxi Drivers
Traffic
Entitled people
Rude cashiers
Crying babies on planes (Sorry MN!)
Adverts
Most musicals
Periods
Sex offenders (things took a serious turn here, but SO's deffo gotta be on the list!)
Donald Trump
Liver (as a food)
Diet coke
Ugly old lady shoes
Fake leather
My dogs' barks
Market fleece zip-ups with wolves on

Honestly, I could go on and on!

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