Family discovers 2,000 jars of green beans their grandfather hid from his wife for 20+ years: 'He hid them so he wouldn't have to eat them!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 15, 2025 8:00 AM EST

There is no greater payback than one that extends beyond the grave. Who would have thought that this charming but scheming grandfather would have the last laugh?

This charming tale of seemingly lost green beans is not only a masterclass in petty revenge, but it's also a wholesome reminder of the amusing lengths people will go to avoid having to eat something they don't like. We associate this aversion to vegetables with kids, but this grandfather kept that aversion going throughout his entire life and beyond.

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  • Here, we have a grandfather who did not want to disappoint his wife when she kept canning green beans to make for everyone and to distribute to the whole family. He always obeyed her and carried jars upon jars of green peas to the basement per her request. However, little did she know, he had been hiding these jars for more than 20 years so that she could never find them (and cook them for everyone). He detested green beans but didn't want to upset her, so he found the perfect solution for their marriage.

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    "My grandpa's final petty revenge beyond the grave"

    My Grandparents had 5 children and 12 grandchildren. I am the oldest grandchild. All of their children settled down within 10 miles of their house. Growing up
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    we did everything as a whole family. My Dad raised beef cattle and pork. My Grandma had a garden that she would feed the entire family from. The women would get together at Grandma's
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    house and we would can all of the fruits, vegetables, and meat the family would need. Then she would distribute it out to each individual family. She would have my Grandpa carry all of the canned goods she was keeping to their basement.
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    My Grandpa absolutely hated green beans. He would ask Grandma not to can so many for them because he didn't want to eat them, but she didn't listen to him. But he dutifully carried them to the basement.
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  • His family wound up uncovering this scheme years later when they were cleaning the house out. Although that's always a difficult and emotionally challenging task for any family member, the green beans discovery certainly gave everyone a laugh and served as a potent reminder of their grandfather's sense of humor (and strong dislike for the vegetable).

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    My Grandpa di d in July 2000, and we just celebrated his 100th birthday. I still miss him. My Grandma di d in March 2011.
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    When we were cleaning out the basement, because a lot of us were storing stuff there. We kept finding random jars of green beans. Then we started finding crates of green beans under shelves. There were about 6 of us cleaning out the basement,
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    and by the time we were done, we found about 2,000 jars of green beans. We had the jars stood up in the center of the big room and we were just standing around looking at it, wondering why we found so many green beans.
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    Then I started giggling. My Aunt wanted to know what was so funny. I said "Grandpa did this." She asked "Why do you think that?"
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    "Because he hated green beans!! So he hid them so he wouldn't have to eat them." I giggled. That made everyone laugh. "What do we do with them now?" I asked.
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    The jars were dated from 1982 to 2000 and it was 2011 at the time. Update: After all of the green beans were found in the basement, I had moved to Houston Texas. But I just moved back home and showed my Aunt this post. She
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    told me that the green beans were redistributed amongst the family, being my grandparents' five children and 11 other
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    grandchildren, and that she herself just finished the last of the 1999 green beans a few months ago.
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    EddGreen Please start a tradition of hiding dated cans of green beans in your siblings houses.
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    desertboots . Dump them out (don't feed the hogs) and now you'll have $1000 in canning jars. RIP gramps. Tootle-loo!!
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    Silent_Tumblewee... Don't eat them. But Grandpa was next level. I will think of him next time I eat green beans!
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    TrueLoveEditorial Didn't Grandma notice she wasn't serving green beans as often as she had planned??
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    pinkpineapples007. When we cleaned out my grandmother's house after she did we found SO MANY canning jars in the basement. From around the
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    same time period as yours as well. Several decades worth but not 2,000. I have no idea what was in them bc I didn't want to touch them lol. She canned so much and had a huge garden.
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    We also found the deed to our house in a women's magazine from the 80's and gold krugerrands under her silverware drawer that were illegal to export into the US around the time she might've gotten them. She had a lot of cool stuff
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    Appropriate_Rain... Mastermind at work here!
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