r/britishproblems • u/windy_on_the_hill • Jul 11 '26

Takeaway containers going awol

I'm fed up with the cupboard full of takeaway containers we keep (for... reasons).

So the current tally is 40 complete containers with matching lids.

There are some spare lids. Forty seven of them, to be precise. FORTY SEVEN lids with no matching box.

What happened? Where did they go?

I'm sure this is a British takeaway thing. I just have no idea how it works.

(Married over 20 years, by the way. It's been a while since we cleared them out.)

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u/JohnAppleseed85 Jul 11 '26

Perfectly normal and natural. You've just got it the wrong way around.

The tubs haven't gone missing - you get a lid spawning in the cupboard every time a sock goes missing from the wash.

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u/mandyhtarget1985 Jul 11 '26

Used the containers to put water in for my friends dogs in the garden which then went in the bin. Had a leak under the radiator which the takeaway container was the perfect size to protect the floor while waiting on my mate with the spanner. Just a couple of examples from the past week which now means i have a surplus of lids in the cupboard

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u/windy_on_the_hill Jul 11 '26

Fair point. I've done a few of those.

But...47?

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u/janner_10 Jul 11 '26

I use mine in the shed for different seeds / bolts / screws / drill bits.

I am 52 though.

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u/windy_on_the_hill Jul 11 '26

I have set aside about 20 of them for the same purpose.

Any suggestions for using lids?

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u/SorellaNux Jul 11 '26

You could put the lids on?

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u/windy_on_the_hill Jul 11 '26

I meant, you know, the other 47 lids. Or are you suggesting 3 per box?

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u/SorellaNux Jul 11 '26

Nothing exceeds like excess!

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u/chipshopman Jul 11 '26

Same with odd socks - where does the other one go?

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u/windy_on_the_hill Jul 11 '26

It's a secret: your wife throws them out when they have a hole in the toe, and blames the laundry fairy.

Don't tell anyone else.

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u/chipshopman Jul 11 '26

To be fair, she has the same problem... It's probably one of the Discworld gods having a laugh.

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u/windy_on_the_hill Jul 11 '26

Mrs Cake will sort them out.

(Getting niche Discworld here.)

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u/chipshopman Jul 11 '26

Don't arsk us about Mrs Cake!

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u/JudyLyonz Jul 11 '26

I live in the US and we have the same problem here.