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I Am So Brainless

rms1954 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:51:00 GMT

I took out a brand new quart of ice cream I purchased today and left it out and forgot about it. It melted ... I am sooooo sad. I hate myself. How stupid can one person be. What a loser.

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happilyretiredgirl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:57:05 GMT

If you drink coffee with cream, the melted ice cream may be good, depending on the flavor of ice cream. I sometimes will use a spoonful of vanilla ice cream in my coffee...it's delicious to me.

edit: not a loser...we all do things like that, I remember once putting ice cream in the refrigerator when I was putting my other groceries away and did not realized it until the next morning.

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Skyegirl21 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:58:32 GMT

Hey, we all do dumb stuff sometimes @rms1954 ! Don't be so hard on yourself. But maybe you're doing too many things at the same time?
Just last weekend I almost left my purse at a restaurant. How embarrassing! Luckily I remembered when igot to the car-

I think this was an Oprah quote: "God first sends a pebble, but if you don't take the message, next time it might be a boulder.."

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gaga — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:11:20 GMT

That's not too bad, I did a "brainless" thing the other day when I wanted some cheese & crackers for a snack. I went to put the crackers & cheese back & put the crackers in the Fridge & the cheese in the bread box! LOL

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:12:33 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
I took out a brand new quart of ice cream I purchased today and left it out and forgot about it. It melted ... I am sooooo sad. I hate myself. How stupid can one person be. What a loser.

@rms1954

You're not brainless ... just chalk this one up as a senior moment and forget about it.

Okay, the rule is that frozen food should be put away first after shopping.

I assume you put it in the freezer to re-freeze? Takes a few hours, but so what?

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NEvans2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:19:54 GMT

Don't feel bad @rms1954 , you're in good company!

On Sunday I made stuffed peppers for dinner. I always put them all together earlier in the day and then put them in the oven about an hour before we want to eat.

About 4:45 I turned the oven on and my daughter called. I walked out of the kitchen and talked to her for about 20 minutes. Thought I'd check on them about 5:30 and take the foil off for the last 15 minutes.

Around 5:20 my husband went into the kitchen and yelled to me " are they done? " I said I'm going to check them at 5:30. Then he wanted to know why they were on the counter. Forgot to put them in the oven! LOL

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Janey2 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:21:34 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 If ice cream completely melts you should not refreeze. Bacteria will quickly grow in room temperature ice cream

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SportyShorty07 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:42:40 GMT

@gaga wrote:
That's not too bad, I did a "brainless" thing the other day when I wanted some cheese & crackers for a snack. I went to put the crackers & cheese back & put the crackers in the Fridge & the cheese in the bread box! LOL

@gaga LOL Gaga!!! The other day I accidentally brushed my teeth with face wash and started to remove my nail polish with eye makeup remover!! I kept rubbing the cotton pad on my nails and was so frustrated about why the polish wasn't coming off 🤣. I remember one time I put my lunch for the next day in my purse and my cellphone in the fridge.

@rms1954 You're not a loser at all and you're not brainless either 💗! We all make mistakes, and I've accidentally left ice cream on the counter to melt. Did you tip it back and drink part of it like a milk shake? I did that when I found the melted pint of ice cream.

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nwbabs — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:01:56 GMT

Agree with others @rms1954, you are in good company.

Just last week I made a few meals from a one pot dish trying to get ahead for a busy week. I set the extra meals out to cool in 4 cup glass storage containers uncovered. They cooled all right, right through the night where I found them the next morning. Three meals in the trash and back to square one.

Give yourself grace. Cheers!

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drizzellla — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:50:00 GMT

@rms1954 wrote:
I took out a brand new quart of ice cream I purchased today and left it out and forgot about it. It melted ... I am sooooo sad. I hate myself. How stupid can one person be. What a loser.

We had a lengthy power failure several years ago. I had a brand new half gallon of ice cream in the freezer. When I cleaned out the freezer, I opened the half gallon of what used to be ice cream. The container was half full. There was so much air blown into the ice cream that when it melted there was only half a container.

Never bought that ice cream again. Not paying for air in my ice cream.

I have done lots of stupid things in my life. I would just move on . There will be more to come down the pike. That is the beauty of being human.

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LuvmyLab — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:25:03 GMT

Don't be so hard on yourself! I did the exact same thing a while back but luckily I had to go into the kitchen and get something and saw it there so I was able to refreeze it before it totally melted. We all make mistakes.

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Desertdi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:58:27 GMT

Definately NOT "brainless"....

Women are multi-taskers. Who else can place an order with the Q with your right hand on the computer.....while ordering groceries with the phone in your left hand.....AT THE SAME TIME ??????

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Carmie — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:29:23 GMT

@rms1954 You sound normal to me. We all do stuff like this on occasion. It gives us something to talk about.

I have left groceries in my trunk overnight in error. Once, chicken breasts must have fallen out of the bag and I didn't know. They were left in the car overnight in the dead of summer.

The next day, I went out to my car during lunch time while at work and the smell hit me as soon as I got close to my car. I found and removed the chicken and threw the package out in the outside trash at work.

My car stunk for days.. This wasn't the only time. I drive a mini van and keep the third row seats down for a large cargo area, so it's easy to miss something. I keep the area covered with a large old quilt.

Don't beat yourself up about it.

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Mustang Shar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:47:07 GMT

I recently did that to a Ben n Gerry’s cherry garcia. They are so expensive, I drank it lol

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SurferWife — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:48:31 GMT

@happilyretiredgirl

I like the way you think!

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mspemberley — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:53:10 GMT

I used to own an ice cream shop. People would come in and buy quarts of ice cream and forget and leave the ice cream in their car. They would then ask me to replace the melted ice cream! Of course I couldn't but did have empathy for their disappointment at their mistake.
Also, it is true that melted ice cream should not be refrozen. Eat at your own risk. Interestingly, ice cream is made by incorporating air to suspend the butterfat, water, sugar, and other ingredients. Air is not a "filler". It is an important part of the process and helps to give the ice cream it's texture. Take out the air and you just have runny butterfat and sugar in a milky mix.

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:39:31 GMT

@Janey2 wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 If ice cream completely melts you should not refreeze. Bacteria will quickly grow in room temperature ice cream

@Janey2 @rms1954

So the real question was, from the time she got home, how many hours before she put it away? If it were only a couple of hours, she could feel the container and see if it was room temperature, or still "chilly".

Or some other word meaning not room temperature, yet. LOL.

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:41:43 GMT

@rms1954

I hope you're feeling better ... we all do things like that.

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10sluvr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:42:02 GMT

i'm good at doing a load of laundry and forgetting to put the soap in.

simple goofs we all make them.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:30:30 GMT

It was an oversight. Disappointed or frustrated maybe, but that doesn't make you brainless or a loser. I've done far worse. At least it was only a quart.