Woman gets petty after discovering her roommate Aunt borrowed her favorite sauce, gets dragged online: 'You got revenge on a relative over a couple of dollars of sauce?'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 3, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

This is exactly why one should never live with one's aunt.

It doesn't matter how cool they are. It doesn't matter if you think you're the same age on a spiritual or emotional level. The generational differences are likely just too much to overcome for a healthy living situation. Yes, it would be different if you were living with a parent. After all, presumably you would have grown up with that parent. You would have had experience understanding what the boundaries should be and what kind of household is ideal for both of you. However, if you're living with your aunt for the first time in your life as an adult, you're far more likely to experience a side of them you didn't even know existed when you were a kid who visited her once or twice a year.

What's most surprising about this anecdote is that the person who was out of line here was actually not the aunt; it was her niece. The author of this story took to the internet to express her grievances after she discovered that her aunt had consumed some of the Bachan's Japanese Barbecue sauce the author had bought in bulk. That's right, it's not like she finished the bottle without permission. The aunt just took some of the sauce when there was plenty left over for the author to use.

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  • "My aunt used my favorite sauce. So I swapped it out"

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  • Thankfully, people online gave this woman a hard time for thinking she was entitled to enact petty revenge on her aunt. Most folks agreed that, within reason, sauce is one of those communal products that residents within a household can use at will, like paper towels or toilet paper. It's not like she ate an entire chicken that the author had been preparing or something. This lady has got to relax! Clearly, she's the problem here!

  • See, I have this one sauce i always buy when i go shopping or specifically out to costco. I think its called bachans. Its delicious, like soy sauce but less salty and more versatile. One day i grabbed a bottle of my holy ambrosia and noticed like 1/4th of it was entirely gone. These bottles are big too like 34 fl oz's (964 grams for the europeans).
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  • So naturally i was shocked. I never used this much in even 3 days let alone one. So I asked around a little and lo and behold my aunt openly admitted to it. I decided not to call her out (which in hindisight wouldve been the better thing to do) and instead decided to grab my bachans and pour out half of the bottle. Replacing it with soy sauce.
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  • Now admittitedly I love soy sauce as well but my aunt does not. Bachans is just mellow enough for her to use it on anything
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  • They looked almost identical so i left the bottle in the fridge and waited to see if she would take the bait, Of course, she did. If she didnt i wouldnt be typing this right now. I swear when i came downstairs to make myself dinner she was practically drowning herself in water, I swear can nobody take salitness anymore?.
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  • Edit: Since someone asked she lives with me, this wasnt the first time she did this, and she knows i like this sauce and dont want others using it and ive told her before not to use it. Ive even suggested buying her, her own bottle so she wont use mine.
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  • Null_98115. 11h ago So your aunt used a readily available product that was in your fridge or pantry and that comes in Costco sized bottles and you decided that was worthy of revenge? Sorry, but I think that says something about you more than your aunt.
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  • GoodIntelligent2867.11h ago Was your aunt visiting you? Don you live in the same house? How is she supposed to know that she wasn't supposed to use your sauce? Unless she does this all time and knows that you are possessive about your sauce, you were just being petty for no reason.
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  • Kate2205 11h ago You could just have told / asked her not to use it. Is there a background why you did not behave like a normal person and more like a bratty child?
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  • CoderJoe1. 11h ago This seems childish
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  • Available-Effort2716 11h ago . Are you always like this? Do you lose it when your toilet paper also gets used by guests?
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  • bedofhoses • 3h ago . You sound insane.
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  • Codascip 2h ago You got revenge on a relative over a couple of dollars of sauce that you purchase in bulk at Costco? You are a new level of petty.
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  • • Inevitable_Doctor_72 1h ago This is so confusing. Why do you have a bottle that only you can use? You offered to buy her her own bottle. Why would you need 2 open bottles of the same thing? Just let her use the sauce and keep an extra bottle around.
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  • • nondescript coyote 58m ago Bro. Just share the sauce.
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  • SendMeNoods Notl What are you 12? . • 1h ago
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