What is something that your parents did while you were growing up that absolutely boiled your piss?

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Mum would do the weekly food shop and that would obviously include perishibles like cold cut meats and yoghurts, amongst others. I'd usually finish stuff like yoghurts within a day or two and she'd leave hers sat there.. fine, then she'd leave it sat there some more...ok.. I was a growing lad, so obviously hungry all the time and sometimes i'd eat stuff in the fridge that wasn't designated as anyone's, yet then get a bollocking for "eating my stuff" Sometimes i'd leave it and leave it and leave it and whatever it was then just went mouldy and got thrown in the bin more often than not; It really boiled my piss back then and still does even now that knowing that I was paying board, i was contributing to the food in some capacity and would have quite happily eaten all of this stuff before it went off, yet it was just being binned (out of spite or just forgetfulness, i dont know). ​ Now i'm an adult i pretty much use everything I put in my fridge and i'm shocked at how much of our weekly food was just binned because the way she was.