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to eat a pea because I feel sorry for it.

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SlightlyJaded · 29/02/2012 14:45

I have just eaten a cherry tomato that I didn't really want (last one, bit bruised and squishy) because I 'felt sorry for it' and thought it would be sad if it didn't get eaten like it's friends...

I often do this with peas as well.

And other small pieces of food

Confused

I try to tell myself that it's ridiculous "Jaded it's just food, it doesn't have feelings FFS"

But still I find myself adding the manky mushroom to the risotto so it doesn't feel left out.

Anyone?

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limitedperiodonly · 01/03/2012 23:33

rusty 'You'd better not let the other mugs know you know you have a favourite' - paraphrased from Layercake, which is my favourite film. But don't let anyone know.

TrinityRhino · 02/03/2012 07:51

Dd2 and gecko had a toy party tue thing in our bed after tea last night. When I asked them to tidy all the toys away they must have missed a bear that was under the duvet. When I climbed into bed I found it. I didn't want to leave it lonely out of bed do slept with it. What's worse is that I told them that they left it crying , alone in my bed Grin they are used to me.... They just said he was fine, it wasn't adventure Grin

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 02/03/2012 08:19

My nanna still has pace eggs from the 1940s and they're fine - the yolk is all rattly (very very gently rattly!) in there but they will last years if you take care of them and the shell is intact. She has hot cross buns too, apparently the story goes that if you bake them before sunrise on Good Friday, they will never go mouldy, and these ones haven't.

lesley33 · 02/03/2012 08:41

I have posted some things on here. But your post pombear reminds me of a serious point in that I have read that people who attribute feelings to objects are more likely to be serious and problematic hoarders. I can understand why this would happen as I could see my DP being this way a bit if left to own devices.

For example, DP rescued large cuddly toy from skip outside a house as the toy looked lonely and abandoned. It was grimy, but a clean in the washing machine soon sorted this. So we took a clean cuddly toy to the charity shop - along with something else so toy didn't get lonely. But if we kept all these things, our house after a few years would look like a tip.

NormanTheForeman · 02/03/2012 08:46

Strangely it seems to work the other way round in our house. SoMuchToBits attributes feelings to things a lot, but really doesn't hoard things. But MrBits (who thinks she is bonkers for attributing feelings to things) finds it really hard to throw stuff away.

StealthPolarBear · 02/03/2012 09:00

You lot must be dreadful horders! And have too much time on your hands to worry about the clothes that are left behind when packing...when I'm packing it's usually 11pm the night before I'm going, and I'm slinging stuff in and cursing

StealthPolarBear · 02/03/2012 09:01

ooh hadnt spotted your post lesley33
TBH I do remember feeling like this as a child but grew out of it when I realised that I am disorganised and messy, so unless I am ruthless and throw things out, it takes over :(
I do remember recently feeling sorry for my car in a thunderstorn recently

FloydieDoydie · 02/03/2012 16:10

My name is from a small stuffed cow called Floydie Doydie. He lc's with his friend Monkey Man. I actually made them mini passports and stamped them when I took them away on holiday. Blush

shockers · 02/03/2012 16:11

I do this with lots of things, food, toys, knickers and socks Blush. I'm also very careful about looking for new houses 'when the house can see me'. DH was talking about trading my car in the other day and I stroked the dashboard and whispered to it that it wasn't going anywhere.

lesley33 · 02/03/2012 16:24

My DP has told me off for talking about getting a new car in front of our current car. I should know it will be upset by this and might decide to stop working for us.

I love the mini passports.

Allthewhitehorsesarestillinbed · 02/03/2012 16:27

The mugs thing has struck a chord with me. There are mugs that I don't like and feel a bit put out if I'm given tea in them. Nothing to do with colour/pattern/shape, it's just them, we clash on a very basic level. They make my tea taste bad.

mathanxiety · 02/03/2012 17:07

The DCs have asked, out loud and in earshot of the cat, if we will get another one when she kicks the bucket. I always hush them even though the cat goes on making herself ever more comfortable, seemingly unfazed by the morbid topic.

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SlightlyJaded · 02/03/2012 17:19

My Our DC's two favourite toys have passports - stamped each year Blush

Norman I am like you - can't bear to upset the food/things in the house, but not a hoarder at all. However, I have been known to take a few toys and whatnot to the charity shop (after a long reassuring chat with them all) and then pop in a couple of days later to secretly ensure that they are arranged in a prominent position and with at least one of their friends.

And I may have once bought back a tatty beanie toy that hadn't sold after two weeks

Last night I was talking to DH about this thread and showing him that I am not the only bonkers sensitive person and he deliberately left a mushroom on his plate when he could clearly have eaten it. Obviously I ate it but did worry slightly that it was going to find itself in with a bit of a strange crowd and not the friends that he had made on DH's plate.

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Allthewhitehorsesarestillinbed · 02/03/2012 17:34

Grin at SlightlyJaded

In a similar fashion, I ate the small piece of ham hock which had escaped from my sandwich onto the sofa at lunchtime Blush. I just, y'know, felt sad that he would've ended up in the bin.

I am going to have to name change again, aren't I?

Synyster · 02/03/2012 17:38

what a brilliant thread.
when ds was a baby and had new teddies, I put my childhood teddie in as well, so he could show them the ropes(did it with dd too)

mathanxiety · 02/03/2012 18:39

I am always surprised at how much food my sofa manages to tuck away and yet never gain a pound. It's like a venus fly trap. It wouldn't have given up a piece of ham without a fight.

limitedperiodonly · 02/03/2012 19:10

Ahh! synyster

PineCones · 02/03/2012 19:25

Ah synyster my old panda (had a panda not a teddy) - how I have let him down! I think he was lost when my parents last moved house. He looked pretty sad by then already :(
I think I'll curl up in a corner and weep now Sad

crochetfish · 02/03/2012 22:33

Ooh, similar to Synyster. Got my childhood cuddly toy to 'train up' the toy we bought for DS. This meant they had to be sitting together 'studying' for weeks before DS was born to allow all the wisdom to be passed along...

Whirliwig72 · 02/03/2012 22:37

I can't leave a single egg on its own in the egg box it just seems wrong - it might get lonesome Grin

FairyHanny · 03/03/2012 00:35

I feel like I am truly among my own kind here. Grin

In a similar vein to many other posters, I can't leave even one grain of rice in the jug after washing it because it's come too far of a journey to just be washed down the sink without fulfilling the only purpose in it's life.

(Plus all of it's friends are already in the pot and it just wouldn't be fair on it!)

It's ok, I'll call them out myself...

DaenerysTargaryenButCallMeDany · 03/03/2012 00:59

are you lot fucking serious?

I think you all need shrinks.

Pornyissue · 03/03/2012 02:03

I'm the Opposite if the food has a face.

Like a pom bear. Or a jelly baby.

I feel guilty and cruel that they just witnessed the fate of their friends in the same bag and now must face a similar end

Can never decide which is less cruel - to go with the arms, legs or head first?

WhereEaglesDare · 03/03/2012 06:57

Box of leftover biscuits are eyeing me up...maybe i should eat them ,maybe i should feel sorry for them...Grin

iscream · 03/03/2012 07:08

Only read the first post, but yanbu. I often told my toddler ds's that the pea/carrot/bean was crying because it didn't want to be alone without its family.