Cheap Or Thrifty: Children Share Their Parents’ Attempts At Saving

37. Not Believing Expiration Dates

On many foods, expiration dates exist for a reason. They’re a benchmark to indicate when food may start to go bad so that you can throw it out. While some foods are still safe to consume after this date, this isn’t a hard and fast rule for all food. Unfortunately, this parent adopted this rule with everything. Instead of buying a new bag of bread when one got moldy, they would simply cut off the moldy parts of the bread. It’s a wonder their children didn’t end up sick all the time.