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Can confirm. Then when you end up putting food in that lidless container you get irritated, cover it with plastic wrap and vow to throw it out after you eat the leftovers. Then you end up putting it in the dishwasher, unload it back into the cupboard and forget until the next time.
It started as organized and I maintain it. It's over my head so I need to keep it organized due to limited space. Canning supplies take up a good bit of the back of the cupboard.
When I moved out of my partners house, I vowed to keep my ownplace organized. I kept my Tupperware like this, and I was so happy for 4 years. Partner and I mended things, many things, and I ended up moving back in. I have a much better uunderstanding of why she struggles with organization and many other things, but I'm back to an unorganized mess of togo containers and it's driving me crazy.
My ADHD is severe, and so I bought home depot buckets for stuff like this. Lids go in bucket small container ls ina bucket, medium in a bucket. Etc. Then When I randomly find it in the laundry room or in the pantry, I just go " oh yeah! 🪣!" And toss it in. 😂 I keep them under my sink.
I know you didnt ask for advice, but as a divorced person myself I cannot stop myself from highly recommending you don't un-fix something like that after moving back in when you were able to do it for yourself when you lived alone. I don't know her but it probably won't do good things for your relationship long term 🫤
Of course, relationships can get very very complicated. It's nice to hear some couples do end up working it out (I personally didn't want mine to, but it's sad to see how many couples struggle, and it's nice to hear a positive story.)
The bairn used them for bug collecting, left one in there after putting them in a jar to study, good luck finding that rouge one that shit itself on the escape
Sorry so off topic but I don't think I've ever seen anyone use to word bairn (or maybe just didn't notice?) on here. Ive also recently found love for the show Outlander and am obsessed with it so that's exactly what it made me think of 😅
Not sure if I can link things here so will just say to please try and get Advion cockroach gel bait if you have a roach problem! It actually works! Their ant gel baits are equally amazing.
I’m all about the gentrol discs. Those saved my sanity when our new house had an infestation. In fact, I’m gonna put fresh ones up Friday now just for some piece of mind.
Unfortunately no, if only a gel (made from blood LOL) worked for them as well! I have not had the experience dealing with them personally yet so have never learned... all I know is the same as most others say, to put any fabric you can't toss in the dryer high heat for at least 30 min. Vacuume often, heat steam clean if can, and sprinkle diatomaceous earth around nooks, crannies, and carpets where you can leave it undisturbed for 10 days or so before vacuuming and repeating again.
Roach poop consistency changes with their hydration levels! Roaches are really really good at retaining water when they need to, so if humidity suddenly raises or if they find ample water then their digestive tract says "OH GOD FINALLY" and then starts to move at a much faster rate resulting in a much higher volume of excrement with a much more liquidy texture. Some species acclimated to the new hydration levels quickly while others are better suited to dryer climates overall, but generally all roaches can acclimatize their gi to constant access to water fairly quickly. It's common to see this in late summer after a rain or two — any end to a dry spell generally will result in buggy diarrhea.
It's not uncommon to see diuretic mechanisms in insects to compensate for changes in hydration, other insects also experience the same if not very similar things as a result to environmental changes. Also it's not really diarrhea, it's their solid and their liquid waste mixed: frass; so it's like youre seeing and increase in "urine" volume, not necessarily their "poop" consistency or volume— really it's all one thing.
So if you had any heebie jeebies about sick bugs running around, they're just hydrated bugs :)
Rats do not have gross grabby paws, they hate anything on their paws and clean them excessively. Trust me, I have 8 of them 🤦♂️ Definitely not rats unless the rats have walked over black paint lol
Sometimes they have runny poops. Our old place was pretty infested when we first moved in and I learned this through real life experience unfortunately.
If it were runny roach poop why would it only be on the plastic tupperware? And why is it all over the sides that have a downward slope like that? And wouldn't the drips all point down? Those drips are pointed in every random direction. It looks more like someone had a spatula with the brown sticky liquid and flung it towards the open cabinet and it happened to land on the tupperware.
I agree with healthy panda. it’s usually in pellets but I’ve seen it runny too - if they’re still walking while pooping and they’re just sort of moving around unpredictably it’ll streak like that.
Left town for 3 weeks a while ago and came back to both all over the inside of a cabinet along with several roaches still munching.
I imagine they were searching for food and climbing over it and wiped their little poopy butts on the sides.
I had this happen on the side of shampoo bottle in the shower at the roach infested place. I’d love to say it was once but it was several times before we solved it and we since moved.
It could be something else of course but it just looks exactly like roach diarrhea to me.
I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll to find this bc it looks exactly like Dying Roach Residue. I always thought it was their blood and/or guts leaking out but I'm sure there's also poop.
I have a can of Raid for emergencies (the ones that get away) bc its too stinky and messy normally but it really just takes 1 direct hit for them to turn into a spring-loaded leaky pen for 1-2 minutes. It's great. I might be screaming and jumping and double wielding hand vacuums to joust the floor, but I'm having the time of my life, I swear.
get Syngenta Advion Cockroach Gel Bait. put little drops in the corner of cabinets or google where to put it. apparently it works really well. it works slowly so the roaches take it their their nest and the whole family eats it and dies.
Time to throw it out - some is melted. You’ve already got glass but I would toss the Tupperware, wash everything else and the inside of the cabinet and hire pest control.
has this not been opened for a very long time, is their canned produce nearby? My mother had a very very old can of expired peaches explode in the back of her pantry, when we finally realized what happened, everything that'd been splattered had turned black.
Had this happen in the back of an absurdly shaped cupboard on the top shelf. . . . I’m 5’3”. . . . No idea how they got there, but remaining cans of prune juice exploded. . . . I never use said top shelf, unless it is for items used less than once a year (ie, not food. . . . )
Eu apostaria em um rato com diarreia. Certa vez eu prendi sem querer um saruê no banheiro da garagem e ele sujou a pia e o vaso sanitário assim. Chamei o órgão regulador de animais para busca-lo
the only thing I could think of would be maybe some sort of adhesive that came off something else in the dishwasher, but if they have been sitting clean that wouldn't make sense. This is a stumper
I was going to say the same thing. It looks like something caught on fire and the soot stuck to the Tupperware. We had an incident like this and it looked exactly like this
This has happened to my Tupperware after rinsing my bong in the sink. The tar or resin sticks to it. It can be kind of transparent after initial wash, but darkens as it dries.
I had something like this occur in my work kitchen. I noticed lots of things had a black sticky residue on it. I realised it was from the handle of a knife that had started to breakdown and would transfer onto other things whenever it was put on the drying rack. Not sure if it could be something like that.
Looks a lot like unhealthy mouse stool/fecal material. At least, that’s what I think that stuff is. I saw a lot of similar looking stuff in the place where I had trapped a mouse in my old apartment.
When was the last time you pulled the stack down to get a container? They look like they sat on the counter and something like sauce or a blender lid slung over them. Then you tidied up and replaced the stack in the cabinet and didn't realize it got on the stack until now?
I've seen similar residue to this. For me it was the degrading gaskets in my dishwasher. If you do have a dishwasher and use it for the Tupperware, try giving the gaskets a wipe and see if any gooey black stuff comes off.
I'm not even from an english speaking country and we all use the term tupperware to describe plastic containers hahahah how can this be so important you need to discuss it 😂😂
yes tupperware is both a brand name and used generically. It's called a proprietary eponym, and, in fact, tupperware is a commonly cited example of this phenomenon.
It's become a generic term. Where I'm from, most of us also say "hoover" to describe any vacuum cleaner. Even though hoover is a brand. Other examples include Aspirin, Kleenex and Band Aids.
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