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Helping with household chores should not require handling a forgotten container of fermented cabbage.

In this home, one kid regularly washed everyone’s dishes simply to keep the kitchen from smelling.

Then a neglected crockpot revealed a revolting surprise that pushed their voluntary cleanup routine past its limit.

Let’s see why Mom wasn’t grateful.

AITA for throwing out my moms crockpot and not wanting to buy her a new one?

My mom has a crock pot that she used for my sister’s graduation party – and then it sat there for months filled with cabbage.

In our house, I tend to do the dishes as long as they are empty and in the sink.

Dishes aren’t my chore or anything, I just tend to do them because no one else will, and the dishes stink up the house if I don’t.

We have a garbage disposal and dishwasher that anyone can use, I just tend to hand wash personally because it’s what I’m used to.

I have communicated several times to everyone how much it bothers me when they leave massive chunks of food in dishes when we have a garbage disposal, and that I refuse to do the dishes if they are left like that.

Let’s see how this kind dishwashing turned into a drama.

Unfortunately, our crockpot was left in a corner to ferment, and it ended up collecting an army of fruit flies gushing from this one tiny vent from the top.

I was going crazy looking for the source of the flies until I found it.

I knew with the amount of flies that existed, coming for the tiniest hole, that many many more existed on the inside.

Not to mention the smell was horrific, probably the worst aroma I have ever had to deal with, all from this one hole.

Read on to find out what they did as a result.

So I thought the best thing to do was to triple bag the thing, put it in a bin and leave it outside the house for now until we figure out where the best place to throw it out is.

However, then my mom came home extremely livid about it, and told me I shouldn’t have thrown it out and now I need to buy her a new one.

From my perspective, I’ve been very open about not just that crock pot but my overall unwillingness to clean the dishes if they cannot at the very least remove the food from them.

AITA?

Firstly, this is absolutely disgusting and no one should be having to deal with this – and by the sounds of it, there’s a pattern of neglectful and even abusive behavior in this home.

The crock pot was a health hazard, and throwing it out was for the good of the whole family.

The mom should be apologizing, not demanding a new crock pot. This one was hardly well-used.

Let’s see what Reddit had to say about this.

This person agreed that removing it from the house was the only option.

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And others empathised with the horrendous smell they were likely confronted with.

Meanwhile this Redditor was concerned for the mom’s mental health.

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But others pointed out that if the mom wanted the crock pot so bad, she could salvage and clean it herself.

After finding months-old cabbage fermenting inside a fruit-fly-infested crockpot, OP triple-bagged the appliance and moved it outside.

Redditors backed that decision, calling the crockpot a health hazard and saying Mom could clean it herself if she truly wanted it.

Months of fermented cabbage turned a slow cooker into a biological weapons program, yet Mom still demanded the cleanup crew purchase its replacement.

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Chris Allen