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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Blaze-Dragon4162 on 2025-05-20 21:57:13+00:00.

Container Chaos

Living with family means there will always be something weird that triggers someone. The other day, it was plastic containers.

For context, our house has three kinds of containers; plastic, glass, and Snapware. The Snapware, bought by my mother, hardly ever get used and I avoid using them because my sis and I were already scolded for not putting them in the proper place (a bin in the dining room). We tend to use the plastic containers for leftovers and food while glass was for sauces and stain heavy foods.

So, seeing some of the older containers were losing their luster, I decided to buy some new containers to spruce up the collection. Bought them in different sizes so we had variety in the closet and handwashed them so that anyone could use them.

Cue my mother’s rant the other night.

She went off on me for buying new containers and not taking out the old ones. I did, but apparently filling up the cabinet with new ones made it look as if I did nothing. She even said that having all this plastic was damaging the Earth and I was being wasteful for buying ‘cheap’ containers.

And so, to comply with her orders, I did exactly what she wished.

When everyone was out the house today, I took every plastic container out the closet and off the counters and put them all in a garbage bag. I hid that bag somewhere in the house, telling my dad that I had tossed the entire collection. When he asked me why I did so, I shrugged and said I was just following orders and that he could put the leftovers in the Snapware or glass containers. I made sure he knew that mom complained and I fixed the problem. He goes to get a Snapware container, notices how shallow they are and proceeds to lament that they aren’t as deep as the good old fashioned plastic ones.

I told him to bring it up with the missus.

Only a matter of time before she notices a lack of plastic containers to place her own food in for work. The ironic part about all this is that the Snapware is also plastic based and gets burnt easily.