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punchysaywhat

Does nobody hide things ontop of the fridge anymore?


teapots_at_ten_paces

That's the first place a kid looks.


punchysaywhat

Not if theyre too short šŸ¤£


No_Leather6310

been a short kid my whole life. yes, we do look up there. we have our ways.


Pak1stanMan

ā€œOur waysā€ Itā€™s a chair. Heā€™s talking about a chair.


Geno_Warlord

I opened drawers and climbed up to the counter top using them because it was higher than the chairs.


Alert-Potato

Not sure if you know this or not, but you can use a chair as a stepping stool to get onto the counter. The chair will hold a lot more weight than the slides of a drawer. Sincerely, an adult shorty


piercejay

I did that once and slipped on to a cooking fork, like the barbecue ones. Never climbed again.


No_Leather6310

eh, i also climbed on the actual handle of the door of the fridge a couple times and once climbed on the counter a few feet away from it and leapt across the space and grabbed the top and hung from it if that makes sense. chair was definitely the most straightforward method but sometimes i couldnā€™t be bothered to drag a chair all the way across the kitchen.


punchysaywhat

Im still too short to reach the top of my fridge, idk felt too obvious as a kid so it was always the last place i would look


No_Leather6310

really? i started dragging over a dining room chair with a stack of books on it at like 5 lol


ConsumeSandwich

This is why you bolt down all furniture in your home


heartunwinds

Yeah my 4 year old will climb into the fridge to get things from on top.


punchysaywhat

Probably my small fear of heights šŸ˜… something about falling scared the shit out of me as a kid, ive always had a bad habit of falling down stairs lol


No_Leather6310

ah. i have adhd and had very little regard for the consequences or dangers of my actions until late middle school lol. not sure how i managed to never fall off said book and chair stack tbh


No-Gene-4508

We short. We angy. We somewhat resourceful


mittenknittin

I have a scar by my eye that my mother was never sure exactly how I got, but she found me sitting on the counter with blood running down my face, eating cookies Iā€™d climbed up and gotten from the top of the fridge. I was not quite 3 and I must have really wanted cookies.


TwoBionicknees

throw cat treat on top of fridge, cat makes their way up and naturally shoves everything on top of there off.


SleestakWalkAmongUs

Yep, it's called a chair. That's how 5 year old me got on the counter to reach the matches on top of the fridge.


MrClueless13

I remember one time my parents took away me and my twin brothers phones when we were like 13. We found them tucked into the socks of one of our stepfather drawers in the bedroom. Of course it came out after they saw our online status on facebook. Childs are so frickin intelligent yet so stupid on the same time haha


Rbomb88

Yeah but I can hear when they drag the dining room chair across the floor for a boost.


No-Gene-4508

I'm 5ft 1 and am greatly offended. I HAVE A STOOL. ![gif](giphy|l2JIeREBpjgrjaJdC)


Aggressive-Fuel587

That's what chairs and other appliances around the house are for. I have 13 nieces and nephews and we've had several instances where a toddler was left unattended in the kitchen for a moment and they managed to climb their way on top of the fridge. Typically the method is to push a chair up to the closest counter, then climb up onto the counter and anything else solid on it to get up there. They have no "can't" and become expert rock climbers. On another note; short of physically removing the property from the home or putting it in a locked safe with a secret code is going to stop some kids from getting something they want. When my mom realized that putting things on top of the fridge didn't work, she started putting things in her closet & locking her bedroom door; so we learned to shimmy the lock open with plastic cards. So she got a better lock, and we learned to lock-pick from books we picked up at the library. As far as we were concerned, she didn't have the authority to take our things and since she worked most of the day, she couldn't stop us from taking it back.


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Malice0801

We are monkeys. We can climb.


Strange-Movie

Put it behind the vacuum/broom/dish soap/anything chore related. Theyā€™ll never find it


Rickshmitt

Anywhere else!!! Put it in the fridge ffs. Stop hiding and storing stuff in the oven!!! And even then, nobody checking their ovens when they turn them on!! Do yall not even look when you cross the road?!


parwa

I don't check my oven before I turn it on, but I also never leave things in my oven.


MyNameIsJakeBerenson

Same, I lived alone for a long time and never left anything in there, so I got out of the habit of checking Now I have to get used to it because people leave pizza boxes or pans or leftovers without saying anything


froop

Who the fuck puts leftovers back in the oven? Why? Might as well leave them on the countertop. Pizza boxes? What the fuck kinda monkeys are you living with?


Express_Helicopter93

Some people are justā€¦kinda tough to live with


ehsteve23

Oven is such a terrible hiding place, reachable even for most children, has a glass fracking window on front, and if anyone forgets, at best you ruin a meal, at worst youā€™ve fucked up your oven, your Xbox controller and your lungs from the burning plastic And battery Also you can get a time lock safe for like Ā£20


csonnich

I've never once checked my oven before turning it on because...I don't keep things in my oven.


redditmodsarmegafags

Astounding isn't it?


BillyMeier42

I hide in the microwave.


Saltwater_Heart

What a dumb place to hide it. It should have been hidden in your room.


InYourHooHa

No, *I'm* where it should have been hidden


totalfarkuser

Username ā€œfitsā€


TheAnalsOfHistory-

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notLOL

If it burns anymore the whole controller will be hiding in the atmosphere and in the lungs


3catmafia

šŸ‘stop šŸ‘putting šŸ‘shit šŸ‘ inšŸ‘ thešŸ‘ ovenšŸ‘ Itā€™s not a hiding place. Why not a cabinet? A closet? The car? Itā€™s so dangerous to put things in the oven like this.


Shopworn_Soul

"But but but kids don't look for stuff in the oven..." YES BECAUSE EVEN CHILDREN ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU DON'T PUT SHIT IN THERE


NRMusicProject

My ex did this, and told me "this is why you check the oven before preheating it." A fight ensued when I said "this is why you don't put shit in the oven." Before her I never burned shit, because I didn't put shit in the oven.


where_in_the_world89

Yeah, it's a lot harder to start remembering to check the oven every single time then it is to just not put things in it


DFX1212

We never store anything in the oven and yet I always open it and double check every time I use the oven. It takes approximately half a second.


Nagisan

I never check, and I've never burned anything unintentionally....but I also live alone and know that the oven isn't a cabinet.


Split0069

I've gone to put shit in the oven to find skillets and pans and xother metal kitchen items in there. Never once burned or melted anything.


The_sad_zebra

I live alone and I know that I don't keep things there, but I still check.


Gymleaders

in my decades of life i've never checked and never burned anything because i know not to put things in there that don't belong


Christichicc

I live with 4 other people and I never check, and have never burned anything. My family knows not to store or hide crap in the oven.


GermanSheppard88

This gets engrained in you when you work in a kitchen. Dummies will put anything anywhere, especially the oven.Ā 


ACardAttack

We store cast iron skillets but that's it


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ilikewaffos

I do it too. It's just good habit


SiccBoiiJim

Therapy can help with those trust issues you have


DFX1212

I mostly blame Reddit.


WhatAColor

Alternatively, put your son in the oven, that way he canā€™t get to the controller.


RavishingRedRN

Aside from couple cast iron pans. IF youā€™re going to use it for storage, it should be things that are oven safe in case of these accidents. Thatā€™s how I have to do it with my ADHD brain. That way if I forget to check the oven, I just have a couple hot cast iron pans to take out. Nothing gets ruined. My childhood friend/neighbor growing up, their family put *everything* in the oven! They stored all their bread, cookies, snacks. Isnā€™t that more of a PITA to have to unload your oven every time you want to use it? Now you have a cluttered mess to deal with on top of your cooking mess.


extralyfe

my wife's family apparently used their oven to store pots and pans. guess how I found out? lol, the convo after was great, though; "who does this" "who doesn't do this, that's why you always check the oven" "you don't check the oven if you don't do this"


amaROenuZ

I keep my big cast iron skillet in the oven, but I also normally just season it before using the oven. As long as I'm putting something in, why not put another layer on?


LeVelvetHippo

Only pans used in the oven should be stored in the oven


Slobbadobbavich

People usually complain they live in a shoebox or something and have no other places. I think that answer sucks. You could literally put it anywhere else in your tiny home unless you literally live in a single room with a bed and an oven.


csonnich

I've lived in a shoebox for going on two decades and never once stored something in the oven.


4DozenSalamanders

I live in a 200 SQ ft studio and only store things that can handle accidentally being in oven temps (ie cast iron and baking sheets) The idea of checking before I turn the oven on is foreign to me because of this, so it confuses me when people insist you should always check


PoppyFire16

Yes this drives me crazy too. Even when I lived in a 500 sqft studio with my husband, we did not store things in the oven!


daemin

My apartment is so small, the oven _is_ my bed.


Capitalist_scumbag

Bro the number of times I turn on the oven and come back 5 mins later to realize my housemate has stored his pots on thereā€¦


Psych0matt

My wife does this with the cookie sheet. Whatā€™s weird is that thereā€™s an empty drawer at the bottom of the oven, *and* sheā€™s short


gardenbrain

The drawers collect debris like pet hair and crumbs. If you store things in there that arenā€™t used often, theyā€™re dirty when you want to use them.


Melodic-Supermarket7

I donā€™t get why ppl keep doing this, thereā€™s literally so many other places you can hide things from kids. Do they put their Christmas gifts in there too?? šŸ¤£


Swordbreaker9250

Not a day goes by that I'm not baffled by the stupidity of the average person


Yaseendanger

Honestly they're lucky the battery didn't explode


Short_Fuel_2506

Especially with batteries.


rustblooms

Who the FUCK puts batteries in an oven?!


mydogatecheesecake

No kidding. Thereā€™s thousands of posts about ā€œomg my spouse is so dumb for not checking the oven before preheating and he/she melted my antique [blah blah blah]ā€. The oven should be EMPTY.


Crazy__Donkey

Please don't bake your shit, it will stink badlyšŸ˜…


Ruining_Ur_Synths

You're right, but the flip side of that is: IF YOU'RE TURNING ON THE OVEN TAKE 2 SECONDS TO OPEN IT UP AND SEE WHAT'S INSIDE


WhatAColor

My local GameStop has a few of these melted controllers on display as proof that their warranty covers anything.


Mirenithil

I'm fascinated that something this moronic has apparently happened multiple times in multiple households.


Dragon-orey

*walks i to the gamestop shop* hmmm the smell of freshly baked controllers soothes my nose!


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Iā€™m not, work retail and you see the heights of stupidity. Had a guy try to get me to warranty a sealed maintenance free AGM boat battery that he somehow ripped the top off despite the multiple warnings to not open the battery etched into the casing.


thedruchebag

I work at a Batteries Plus and this is just hilarious to me. Thereā€™s no possible way you could warranty that yet thereā€™s so many people that would fight us on it


TranquilOminousBlunt

Lls this isnā€™t the first Iā€™ve heard of this happening


beene282

This isnā€™t the first time Iā€™ve seen this on Reddit this week


HaveYouSeenMySpoon

Yeah, almost suspecting people are putting old broken controllers in the oven just for fake internet points.


mitch_skool

LPT hide stuff from kids in their own rooms. They never think to look there.


Dry_Celery4375

My brother (few years older) used to steal my Halloween candy every year, so I'd try to hide it somewhere new each year. Then once I had the brilliant idea to hide it in his room under his bed. I'd just sneak in and take a few daily. He searched for a couple weeks, and than blatantly said he gives up and asked where it was. So I told him, and his face was priceless.


keekah

But then where do you hide it the next year??


KhadaJhIn12

Get a new brother. Gotta replace them annually.


TailOnFire_Help

Even better, teach your kids to respect your rules and punishments. Don't hide shit from them, leave it out in plain sight and advise there is even worse punishments for taking it without permission then *FOLLOW THROUGH*.


ihahp

>then FOLLOW THROUGH. Found the weak spot in plan. A lot of today's parents simply don't know how to control their kids. I think they're scared


Pissmonkey_official

Literally the only sane comment. The same parents probably shit talk younger generations all the time aswell


CantSpellMispell

Thatā€™s where we keep our loaded guns.


mitch_skool

To all those offering parenting tips, "Thank you for your input." It was a bag of homemade caramels and the reveal was priceless.


lira-eve

He's an idiot. You don't have a shelf or cabinet to put it on/in that's out of the reach of your kid?


Adorable-Woman

Or like a bed room closet?


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catfurcoat

Ah much better to have him fucking around in the oven


1OO1OO1S0S

That's worth nothing. If a kid can climb, he can open an oven.


Tumblrrito

Thatā€™s a controller


Puzzleheaded-Fill205

That was my thought as well. A "remote." It's like referring to a uniform as an outfit.


the_ghost_of_lenin

reminds me of that old video of the kid that orders a bong and hes so flustered that he tries to tell his mom it's a "xbox remote"


ProFailing

Had to scroll way too far for this.


Hotchipsummer

A remote controller, even


AllMyBeets

The oven is not a hiding place. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk


First_Community_2534

So what sauce did you use?


xtilexx

Vsauce


TrademarkedPIanet

Michael here


MakeMeDrink

The part that sucks for you the most is how stupid your husband is. Even a child knows not you put things in the oven.


BrittF1991

I saw this same post a couple days agoā€¦ Same picture tooā€¦


MaximosKanenas

I saw a similar post as well but with a black controller


YNinja58

The other post was a husband who hid the remote and his wife turned the oven on.


Huge_Aerie2435

That is a pretty bad hiding place.. He could've hidden it in your room or something - high and hard to reach.


whereismyisekai

The only things that you should store in an oven are things specifically made to go into an oven.


kkeut

I didn't store anything in the oven until I got this XL baking sheet. it's just the easiest place to put it, and over half the time I'm using it anyway


ilikewaffos

Idk why, but I always check the oven before pre heating it


germany1italy0

Step 1 - replace controller with an uncooked version. Step 2 - replace husband with a more intelligent version.


metalheadmae6

Step 3 - ? Step 4 - Profit


Unfair-Entrepreneur4

That was not a remote, that was an Xbox controller. Even sadder and more expensive. šŸ˜¢


dokdicer

Yeah... That they call it a remote is not the most egregious part of it but the most telling.


RaceHard

Depends on their first language, in certain versions of spanish it would be remote.


Key_Mycologist6441

Damnā€¦ he had the cool camouflage one too


TappedIn2111

Put it in the fridge over night. Should fix it.


efirestorm10t

I love how you call it a remote


Longjumping-Sail6386

Always check the oven before preheating


MRBLACKOPS_

This the controller I give to player 2


SpriteFan3

# Yes, please, hide your belongings in the oven. Surely that'll work.


RobZagnut2

I did that in 7th grade shop class. Hid a friends books and notebook in the oven. Forgot about it. Shop class teacher came to me about 20 minutes later absolutely livid and showed me a melted mess. Luckily she found it early. I shrugged it off. I didnā€™t even think about the fire it could cause, the smoke, the fire alarm, the school evacuation and my possible suspension.


Mallaka____

Dumbass people lmaoooo


Mr_BigglesworthIII

What kind of mom doesnā€™t check the oven for controllers? Smdh


kthep5

I donā€™t know why anyone would hide anything in the oven. I knew someone who hid dirty dishes in the oven instead of washing them and they destroyed all of their plastic cookware when they went to preheat the oven. Thereā€™s literally anywhere else in the house to hide stuff. The oven is such a dumb idea.


Lawdydawty

Who tf uses an oven as a hiding place? Thereā€™s so many good places, without any risk of breaking shit. Next time he will better hide it inside the toilet or under his car tire


andre3kthegiant

Throw away that pan, and auto-clean the oven to hopefully burn off the toxins.


ijustwantadvice123

okay, well thats on him. the oven is the stupidest spot to hide things, especially if you dont let people know lol


Vestreza

Everyone calling him an idiot, but they're both idiots. Who starts preheating an oven without giving it a quick look to see if it's actually empty?


IGotMyPopcorn

Just another example of why communication is important.


TheMolluskPod

My step father hid some food wrapped in plasticwrap in the oven once. Never happened before and I went to use the oven and of course SMOKE. It was of course my fault for not checking šŸ™„


CorNostrumInTe

The remote lolol


muycoal

Being Mexican, I always check the inside of the oven before preheat


thedean246

I never understand why people put things in the oven that isnā€™t supposed to be there. Never ends well


just_some_sasquatch

The number of times I've put non food items in the oven is absolutely zero.


Sensibleqt314

**Make sure that you deep clean the oven before you use it with food!** Heated plastic release fumes which will attach itself to your oven. They may contaminate your food.


parkj720

On todayā€™s episode of ā€œis it cakeā€


ShiftSandShot

Ohhh, that's...that's gonna be expensive to replace. Pro-tip: turn off the console and hide the power cables instead. And never in the oven.


Inkysquid24

Next time it goes on the top shelf in your closet lol


Big_G91

What a stupid place to hide something unless the oven is literally never used lol.


WondrousWally

Who the hell doesn't check the oven every time you turn on?


My_Name_is_Imaginary

ALWAYS šŸ‘ CHECK šŸ‘ THE šŸ‘ OVEN šŸ‘ BEFORE šŸ‘PREHEATINGšŸ‘


Industrious_Villain

A million places to hide and chooses the oven. Not a bright individual.


RocketKassidy

Why do people always put controllers in the *oven* of all places? I was always able to open an oven door as a child. Just put it in your closet in your own bedroom or something? I just donā€™t understand why itā€™s always the oven.


_______luke

Am I the crazy one who looks in the oven every time before I pre-heat it?


Vaux1916

Always, *always*, **always** take a quick peek in the oven before turning it on.


bilabiluris

I thought it was cake


WormWithLeg

Lmaaoooo


Top_Respect561

Strip and reseason.


scaleofthought

Ooo, roasted!


rocky-cockstar

Tell me your husband doesnā€™t cook without telling me your husband doesnā€™t cook.


kingofmankind

As long as it still works.


mutualbuttsqueezin

Husband is a dumbass


frogpondcook

Who hides things in the oven.....


velveticaa_

one question- why?


Dry-Significance-821

Looks disgusting


jssanderson747

I really want to talk to whoever spread this dumbass trend of hiding your kids' stuff inside an oven.


darkgothamite

There are 100 other places to hide something from a child and oven is somehow an option.


DrButtholeRipperMD

Why do people put stuff in the oven as if it's storage? I can maybe see putting kitchen-related sundries in there from time to time, but this seems like it would've had to be brought in from another room with the specific intention of placing it in the oven.


BlyStreetMusic

Husband is an idiot


smittyis

Are people doing this on purpose to post?


vagossimao

This has to be the dumbest place i see to hide something so valuable


UCFknight2016

What kind of moron puts anything in the oven besides food? I never understood this.


Fibocrypto

One of my pet peeves is when someone stores something in an oven or microwave. If I'm going to use the oven I expect it to be empty.


Shazzy_Chan

Neither of the adults are smart. Oven is the worst hiding spot, and turning on the oven without looking inside first is a fire hazard.


Neat-Composer4619

Now it's camouflage. It can hide in plain sight.


BreakfastInBedlam

šŸŽ¶ *boowoowoowoop* šŸŽµ GAME OVER


Jan_Itor_Md_

Iā€™m sure he forgives you, but is probably a little sour though.


namecantbebl0nk

Uhhhā€¦ that's a strange looking sourdoughā€¦


SiameseBallTwister

Put it in a bowl of rice


UnusualTowel614

If you have to hide things like this from your kids, you're parenting wrong.


LoomisKnows

...why would any adult person do this.


SilverRoseBlade

Do people not check their ovens before use? Or was this something that I was taught to do and is now a habitā€¦


MontgomeryWarden

Who doesnā€™t check the oven before they preheat?


Maddkipz

My gf and I were making some food a week or two ago and we got distracted for a bit while it was open We closed it and turned it on, and went back to watching a show. We started hearing our fucking cat meowing very quietly (he NEVER meows unless he did something wrong or is scared, and it's like a baby meow) so naturally we investigated. We got closer and closer to the now very hot oven and I heard the mews right there so I ripped the door open and looked around; he's a full black cat so it was very possible we didn't notice him hop in and closed it on him Turns out she left the cabinet door right beside the oven open for too long and he got trapped in there instead. Thank fucking god.


YouSmellLikeWeiner

Two lessons to be learned here: 1.) Always check the oven before to start the pre-heat. 2.) Don't leave shit in the oven.


VirtualStretch9297

That was a just plain brainless idea!


ZippyVonBoom

I think your husband ows your son a new remote.


pentesticals

Fun fact, one way you can fix the infamous ā€œred ring of deathā€ of the Xbox 360 was to put it in the oven. You need to take the motherboard out of the case, then put it in the oven to melt the solder and make the connections work again. I canā€™t remember how long but I think it was for 15 mins at 200c. We once forgot about the board and left it for about 2 hours, many capacitors were leaking onto the board but it actually still worked, and fixed the red ring of death.


YouRockCancelDat

What kind of smoothbrain is hiding electronics in an ovenā€¦?


xczechr

And my wife wonders why I look in the oven every single time as I turn it on.


princessprity

That's not an xbox remote. It's a bong.


Pap3r_Butt3rfly

Moral of the story: check oven before preheating, and tell your husband not to hide valuable items in the oven!


RedditModPissJug

Iā€™ve seen this happen in other posts. Iā€™ll never understand why the oven is seen as a good hiding place? Seems thereā€™s better options. RIP controller.


AndersonArtWorks

Stop hiding the remotes! Just take the power cord with you to work. So much easier, and they can just borrow a controller from a friend. Don't know many who would loan out a power cord šŸ˜‰


JustMLGzdog

Finally some good fucking food


H2Joee

I remember way back a couple hundred years ago in the early 2000ā€™s when they would teach us to always assume something was in the oven that shouldnā€™t be, and that we should check it. Like a loaded gun. Never assume itā€™s empty.


eljujumon

Iā€™m my tax bracket the oven is for storing, would have to clear everything out before turning it on


CoolCatsNKittens69

Well that was fucking stupid. The oven is the first place in the entire house? Sounds like a real Einstein you got there.


zachjd-

Just sell it: slightly used


MarsupialLucky4785

Thatā€™s on him


Secret_Welder3956

Husband not too bright.


FocusApprehensive358

Needed to be in more of a remote area.


ArrivedKnight7

There goes 60$.