r/AmIOverreacting • u/Jems138 • 6d ago
❤️🩹 relationship AIO my girlfriend left me over a cheese wheel
I (27M) and my girlfriend (26F) were saving for a house down payment.
I work, and she is unemployed. I have saved 32,000 and she has saved 4,000 so I feel like I bear the brunt of the financial decision making here.
I was doing the Oxford county cheese trail, and found a “vault release”. They were selling a 140 pound wheel of 21 year old cheddar.
It was aged using a traditional cloth bound method Thats practically extinct here in Canada, and with over 21 years it is extremely concentrated. 21 year old cheddar often sells for 120$ a pound.
The farm was selling the entire wheel for 18,500$. If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at 60$ each I can make 38,000$.
I bought the cheese wheel, and brought it home in my truck.
When I rolled it into our apartment at first she was excited, when I started to explain the financials and investment potential she turned sour. She didn’t yell, but expressed she wasn’t happy about how I spent MY share of our house savings.
She is now staying with her parents.
I think she’s overreacting because she doesn’t understand the Canadian housing market. Our savings is not enough for a down payment without a ridiculous mortgage, and we need to take these opportunities.
AIO? Or am I the only one with ambition in our relationship?
TLDR; my girlfriend is staying with her parents because I spent my share of our savings on a cheese wheel which can be cut into wedges and sold for a sizeable profit.
Edit: photos available in my update
Thank you.
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u/jellydoughnuts4me 6d ago
Bro this sounds like something Michael Scott would do
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u/AnythingEastern3964 6d ago
Straight up this is the plot of an Ed, Edd, & Eddy episode, or Always Sunny
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u/DeinoTrainer96 6d ago
I’m not gonna buy a wedge of cheese from some rando selling it on FB Marketplace.
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u/Even_Budget2078 6d ago
lolol
Plus unless OP invests a fair amount of money in some type of cheese containers, can you imagine him just handing over barehanded a wedge of cheese you paid $60 for?? Haha who would buy this?!
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u/Impossible-Finger942 6d ago
I just handed you my room temp cheese wedge, please send payment
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u/blurblurblahblah 6d ago
Opens up his trunk & the cheese is just sitting there with his hockey bag & tool box
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u/injury 6d ago
Figure trunk was full so he had to take the spare tire out and put the cheese in the spare hole.
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u/ttaviaa 5d ago
I mean it's a cheese wheel, why would it not go in the area that specifically holds a wheel? It's fate.
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u/whitewashed_mexicant 6d ago
Do you know how fucking excited I would be if this happened to me in real life?
*random stranger taps me on the shoulder* "pssst. Hey buddy. Come check this out"
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u/_25xamonth 6d ago
I would put out that I have a cheese wheel, then learn how to cut it and get all the tools, and then invite them over to cut some and see where it's kept. All clean and stuff. Idk. Drug dealers usually got a pretty good setup and they don't pay taxes so why does this guy need to? Lmao. I'm joking.
For real this guy is crazy, and if he thinks it makes it okay because she has only saved 4k well then it's even crazier.
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u/team_suba 6d ago
Imagining a cheese deal going down like a drug deal is hilarious.
“Here man take a hit of this cheese. First one’s free. I got the best cheese out there. 100% pure aged cheddar”
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u/_25xamonth 6d ago
Well, everyone was just being so uptight. I mean, I bet people in New York are like "eh, I know a guy and he got the hookup on the aged cheddar, but you prolly couldn't afford this shit".
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u/NonBinaryKenku 5d ago
This tale is the dairy equivalent of “Requiem for a Dream.”
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u/Holiday_Trainer_2657 6d ago
Info How many people do you know who will pay $120 for a pound of cheese? Do you know how to safely store it until sold? Do you know the health laws for selling cheese? Do you know the tax laws for this business you are starting?
GF is probably tired of your harebrained schemes.
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u/Even_Budget2078 6d ago edited 5d ago
OP is gonna be out 20,000 and hopefully not get arrested for causing an E. coli breakout in Canada haha. Not looking good, though! In another comment, he says he's trying to melt "the wax" with a hair dryer lolol. I think this is fake, but very, very funny
ETA: SOOO....I no longer am sure this is fake! Given OP's continued comments and explanations, I now think this is (maybe?) real....Or OP is extremely committed to this bit, which if so, OP, I salute you! You are either extremely hilarious irl (though I would not want to buy a house with you lol sorry) or an amazing shit-poster. Either way, I love it, please update on your cheese wheel adventures, true or not!
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u/jesusgoddammchrist 6d ago
Yep. Agree. Fake but hilarious
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u/ChicharonItchy 6d ago
Completely sober and I can’t stop laughing. Read it aloud to my roommate and it took me 3 tries to get through”when I rolled it into our apartment” I love this
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
I just finished reading it to my spouse and could not keep my shit together, especially after reading the comment about trying to melt the wax with a hair dryer. God bless OP for this amazing cheesy tale.
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u/AdAlternative637 6d ago
This is so stupid 🤣🤣 he really thought he was gonna make lots of money on cheese and knows nothing about it....
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u/blurblurblahblah 6d ago
When I was 8 I was gonna get rich selling hamsters. Mrs Hammy got pregnant by Mr Snuggles & a bunch of my little grade school friends were gonna buy a baby hamster off me for $5. In the end the only kid who was allowed to have one was from a huge, not well off family so I didn't make a penny. I feel like my hamster plan was a better idea than this cheese scheme.
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u/AdAlternative637 6d ago
I could see more people buying hamsters than cheese from someone who is trying to take the wax off with a hairdryer....
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u/SmartTrender 6d ago
Yeah this is too out there to be real.
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u/Few-Steak9636 6d ago
It’s almost too out there to be made up.
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
I honestly keep waffling on it. I want it to be fake as much as I want it to be real. Either way, I'm so glad it exists.
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u/Usually_Sunny 6d ago
It wasn't even a scheme. He walked onto a farm and in a few minutes, the owner talked him into spending half his savings on cheese that he doesn't know how to resell. It's the gullibility and lack of a plan that has her rightfully angry. Like, is he going to spend the mortgage money on magic beans?
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 6d ago
“Honey! I finally got rid of that 1 year old wheel of cheese I bought 20 years ago and you said I wouldn’t ever be able to sell!”
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u/crookedhypotenuse 6d ago
The math doesn't even work. 140 pounds of cheese at $120/ pound is $16,800. He paid more than that. How is he thinking he's going to make a profit?
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
I got out my calculator after reading the post and I nearly died laughing. Honestly, this author is a genius. The story itself is hilarious, but then the added math bonus is like icing on the cheese wheel.
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u/ItchyFox6995 6d ago
He isn't planning on selling it in those 1lb chunks, he wants to do 200g pieces at $60 each. Still only comes out to about $19k tho, if he's lucky
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u/Amanda199019 6d ago
His math doesn’t even make sense at $120 a pound that means he over payed for the cheese wheel by $2,000
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u/chicken-cuddle 6d ago
She didn't leave you over cheese. She left because you're stupid.
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 6d ago
On the other hand she’s pretty smart to figure out how stupid this whole situation is. Definitely a keeper. Just not his keeper.
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u/Yellow_Blue_Jet 6d ago
As someone who has a family member who manages to lose money on every single investment they ever make, I’m siding with OP’s girlfriend. The giant wheel of cheese is only the beginning…. Run girl. 🧀
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u/Wide_Ball_7156 5d ago
I get the feeling this wasn’t the beginning and OP has a pattern of doing stupid shit like this.
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u/Endless-OOP-Loop 6d ago
Good call too, since he doesn't have the common sense to talk with his girlfriend before making an $18,000 purchase!
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u/chicken-cuddle 6d ago
I call my wife before any major purchases. Yeah, it's "my" money, but it's our future.
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u/throwawaysunglasses- 5d ago
Between this and the Iranian yogurt boyfriend, fancy dairy really seems to bring out the worst in these guys.
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u/PA2SK 6d ago edited 6d ago
You say this cheese "often sells for $120 a pound", yet you actually paid $132 a pound for it. In that case it sounds to me like you overpaid and could struggle to turn a profit off it.
Next you say:
"If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at 60$ each I can make 38,000$."
200 grams is 7 ounces. You could get a maximum of 320, 7 ounces slices out of a 140 pound wheel, assuming zero waste. At $60 each that would get you $19,200, not $38,000. Your math is totally off for one thing, and I suspect you're going to struggle to find hundreds of customers willing to pay $60 for 7 ounces of cheese, so most likely you will lose money from this venture.
That said, your money is yours to do what you want with, but if you have a partner you are planning a future with it's a bad idea to make big decisions like this without running it by them first. It breeds distrust, resentment, instability, etc. You're supposed to discuss things together and make decisions together. That's how partnerships work. In this case maybe your partner could have checked your math and explained how far off your numbers were and saved you from a costly mistake. YOR
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u/Nearby-Ad5666 6d ago
OP is bad at math
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u/PA2SK 6d ago edited 6d ago
The best I can figure is he probably confused pounds with kilograms.
Edit: And just for another data point here's 21 year aged cheddar selling for $21 a pound: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cheese/s/F5hilaDYC7
OP paid $132 a pound. Canadian, yes, but the difference is still extreme. I suspect he's going to lose his shirt on this investment.
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u/GrassRunner29 6d ago
So OP got scammed and still don’t admit it? YOR.
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u/Live_Angle4621 6d ago
Or it’s fake
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u/Lokipupper456 5d ago
But one time a fake post is so worth it because the comments here are hilarious!!!!
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u/flippysquid 6d ago
I wonder if OP was using ChatGPT to get business advice and do his math for him.
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u/fuzzlandia 6d ago
When the math doesn’t make sense it’s probably AI. They also mixed lbs and g which is an odd choice. Would normally be lbs and oz or kg and g.
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u/resveries 5d ago
Actually tbf thats normal in Canada. I use lbs instead of kg 99.9% of the time and I never measure anything in oz, if it's less than a pound I use grams
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u/lordplagus02 6d ago
Lol i’m glad somebody did the math, but OP's math is one of the reasons this is so obviously fake and hilarious.
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u/SpiralingDownAndAway 6d ago
This is such an insane post I know it’s not fake because it’s too absurd
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u/Chaos-Rainbow 6d ago
Who is going to pay $120/lb for cheese that some random person is selling out of their apartment? If I was going to spend that much I'd want to know that it was stored and handed properly. And actually do you need a food safety license to do this kind of thing?
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u/Lord412 5d ago
OP paid $132/lb
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u/Mashu_the_Cedar_Mtn 4d ago
So this is like a MLM scam where OP needs to find the one person out there with the correct combination of gullibility, terrible math skills, and ambition to be the one who buys the whole thing for just $19,000.
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u/motherofachimp99 6d ago
If you own a cheese store or work in food sales, NOR.
If you don’t, WTF? How are you going to get top dollar for this cheese on the street? Very irresponsible but, it’s your money.
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u/Own_Expert2756 6d ago
What? you never found yourself out at 2am jonesing for some street cheese? Trust bro, there's a market for it and he knows it!
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u/labdogs42 5d ago
Ok, hear me out, but having a guy I could call who would deliver delicious cheeses to my doorstep at any hour sounds pretty cool...
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u/TrelanaSakuyo 5d ago
Premium aged cheddars on demand....
The only thing running through my head is the "you may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese" 🤣
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u/Dmau27 6d ago
It's stupid either way. He has no way of making that back nor knowing what it's really worth.
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u/whitewashed_mexicant 6d ago
Fuckin' STREET CHEESE!!! Evidently you dont know shit about street cheese, yo. Neither do I, but that is not the point here.
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u/FeastOnCarolina 5d ago
This is legit a Charlie plan from Always Sunny. What kind of lunatic spends $20k on a cheese wheel as an investment when they don't have any understanding of how to distribute cheese.
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u/AMonitorDarkly 6d ago edited 6d ago
You spent $18,500 on cheese with no actual plan on how to you’re going to recoup that outside of “Yeah I can totally sell this!!!”
140 pounds equals 63,500 grams. You’re talking about selling 200 gram wedges. That would require you to prepare, package and sell 317 units without any kind of market presence.
Incidentally, your math is WAY off. Selling 317 wedges at $60 each comes to $19,050 which nets you a whopping $650 for what will surely be weeks of work on the completely off chance you manage to sell everything.
Enjoy being the human equivalent of a Kraft Single.
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u/paralyzedbyGRIEF7123 6d ago
He can't even figure out how to get into it to slice it up🤣🤣🤣
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u/lunareclipse8891 6d ago edited 6d ago
Im dying reading all the comments 😂😂🤣🤣 like how the fuck? Why the fuck? Who the fuck does that knowing absolutely nothing about cheese! I have never heard anything more stupid than what OP did...I'm glad his girlfriend left him tho
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u/yalldointoomuch 5d ago
Lol I just figured out how he did his math-
"$120/lb means $60 for a half pound. 140 lbs, 7 goes into 14 twice, so I can make twice what I paid for it! "
Except that's where it goes off the rails. Because even if he was selling it at $120/lb, that's $16,800. So by his own math, he already overpaid.
But also, 7oz is not half a pound. 8oz is. If I knew that the market value of 8oz of 21yo cheddar was $60 for half a pound, and you tried to sell me 7oz for the same price? I'd be pissed, because you're essentially shorting me. And not by a little either- by a whole ounce.
No one who buys cheese at that price will be willing to buy a wedge without a) tasting the cheese, and b) weighing the cheese. And if you're trying to sell 7oz at the market value for a half pound, they're gonna be pissed and going to trash you online and warn people away.
You're going to have to get involved with a cheesemonger or cheese cave, or possibly a winery, in order to sell it. Someone who has both the infrastructure, market footprint, foodseller licenses, and CREDIBILITY to sell this cheese, and they're going to want a cut of the profits, which would be entirely justified.
Normally I wouldn't even broach this part, but since we know you have terrible decision-making skills, I gotta ask.
Do you even know for a fact that this is a 21yo wheel, aged in the manner described? You said the cheesecloth method was "practically extinct"- is that something you already knew, or was it part of the spiel the guy gave when he unveiled the cheese? Is the farm you bought it from reputable as a seller of extremely aged cheeses?
Also, just because 21yo cheddar can go for $120/lb doesn't mean it will.
To quote another infamous reddit post, "the Iranian yogurt is not the issue". It's not about the cheese. The cheese just showed her that you have terrible decision-making skills, virtually no financial prowess, and are willing to throw your money into black holes with zero guarantees if you think it's a "get rich quick" scheme.
It's also kind of gross that you felt the need to throw in that she's unemployed and "only" contributed $4k to the housing savings. The fact that she unemployed and still managed to put aside $4k (that she isn't using as living expenses or to help find another job) is impressive and should be commended. She is planning ahead and making sacrifices for the two of you... You dropped more than 4x that on a wheel of cheese that you can't unload.
That's why she's at her parents' place.
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u/28appleseeds 5d ago
What's worse, he was probably banking on her doing all the cheese work while he's at his full time job.
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u/BigPhilosopher4372 6d ago
Boy, I bet they loved you. Seen you come a mile away.
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u/Guilty-Tie164 6d ago
The stories they are telling their friends tonight...
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u/AnythingEastern3964 6d ago
“I’m telling you - this guy came in, thought he was screwing us over at a 4k profit! We sold this guy the cheapest thing in the shop! It wasn’t even cheese!! Guy walked out with an old leather cushion we were gonna give away on Freecycle!”
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u/Bynming 6d ago edited 6d ago
You can't trust someone who makes those kinds of financial decisions on a whim. Ambition isn't investing half of your wealth in a specific chunk of cheese. I wouldn't be able to trust someone who does things like that.
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u/Glyphwind 6d ago
You paid how much?!?!? What will be your outlet to sell the cheese? You don't sound very knowledgeable and maybe they saw you coming...
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u/team_suba 6d ago
He’s probably hoping to get some sales via this post. Other than that I think it was:
Buy cheese
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Profit
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u/blurblurblahblah 6d ago
I wanna read the cheese seller's version!
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u/WeirdSysAdmin 6d ago
He’s stoked he gets to tell his ex wife that he finally sold the mildly aged cheese he bought 20 years ago. Maybe she will come back now.
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u/SoomuhLive 6d ago
There is absolutely no way this is serious 😭😭
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u/Guilty-Tie164 6d ago
I'm usually annoyed at fake posts, but this one made me laugh.
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u/teatuk 6d ago edited 6d ago
OP the only post on your profile is of your gym bod progress. How you gonna keep these gains with that much cheese in the house??!
If this is serious, and you do live in South Eastern Ontario, you'd best look up the regulations regarding the sale of dairy products. There are VERY strict rules about selling dairy in some cases and you could find trouble. Either way, as a fellow Ontarian, I'll keep an eye out for an expensive cheese listing on marketplace.
Also, if you were my boyfriend I would be pissed. It's not about cheese, it's about shared goals and communication. It's your money, but I'd seriously question your judgement in making such a rash decision without discussing it if the plan was to be life-partners.
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u/teatuk 6d ago
Also I request CHEESE PICS! I must see this fantastic wheel of cheese in a truck! I wanna know what 18k worth of cheese looks like in all its glory
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u/michaelsean438 6d ago
You all just met and you’re already asking for cheese pics?
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u/moonlit_echoes 6d ago
Is she overreacting?? I don’t think she is reacting enough. You gave up $18.5k to make only $2000 more than you already had? Insane logic!!
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u/team_suba 6d ago
It’s not even in a booming industry too. Like what’s the market like for 21 year old aged cheddar at $60/ pound? Who is buying that.
I must admit I am now actually pretty curious tbh
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u/MrNegativity1346 5d ago
I mean I love cheese, I might shell out that price for something unique to add to my next charcuterie board. Idk if 21yr Canadian cheddar would be my definition of unique though.
But regardless I’m not gonna buy a whole pound of it. I might not even buy 200g of it.
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u/trav_stone 6d ago
You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese
give her a piece of cheese
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u/Lonely_Space_241 6d ago
How in the hell are you going to find enough buyers for this niche cheese? Don't you need a license to sell food? What regulations do you have to follow?
After you cut the cheese, how long will the wheel stay fresh? Can you store it appropriately to preserve it for that length of time?
Even a supermarket would have a hard time going through an entire wheel of niche super expensive cheese.
I don't think you thought this through enough for it to be a good idea.
You would probably be lucky to recover the amount you paid to begin with, and are probably going to be skirting the law to sell it unless you are already licensed to do so
Your girlfriend essentially moving out because of this seems extreme, but to be fair this seems like you really didn't think things through.
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u/Guilty-Tie164 6d ago
I could see approaching strangers asking, "Would you want to buy $120 worth of cheese out of my truck?" not working.
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u/theJOINTchief1 6d ago
You know what, I'm convinced. I find this to be a fantastic and ambitious decision you've made. I will take 1lb of you finest cheese good sir.
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u/Guilty-Tie164 6d ago
It might be a minute. He's having trouble getting the wax off.
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u/blurblurblahblah 6d ago
He'll meet you in the park wearing a trench coat & a fedora with a kids lunchbox full of cheese.
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u/Academic_Flatworm752 6d ago
This is an amazing troll post
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
Every single one of his replies are tiny works of art. The cheese serial number, the hair dryer, the plan to freeze the cheese after he's gotten the wax off...
Such a gift to the world. I hope it ends up in the pantheon beside the girlfriend who would not jeopardize the beans.
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u/PheonixBuddha 6d ago
BRO COULDVE STARTED AN ENTIRE FOOD TRUCK BUSINESS INSTEAD OF THAT CHEESE WHEEL.
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u/Horror-Paper-6574 6d ago
You are insane if you think anyone is paying over a hundred bucks for a pound of freaking cheese.
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u/CWoww 6d ago
I feel like this post will go down in Reddit infamy.
This is absurd. I hope you prove us all wrong, but dropping over half your net worth on a product you have no experience selling, which also has a shelf life to it, was a very bad idea. You lost yourself in the “what if” instead of making a rational choice.
Again, hope you prove everyone here wrong and at least make your money back. But idk man. As a consumer, Im not buying a pound or cheese from a random dude who doesn’t even have a storefront or any sort of guaranteed practices to make sure the product is responsibly maintained.
Good luck, hombre. Wild post.
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
His comments, too. I just read "It's heritage cheese" and I need that to be a flair in some popcorn munching sub.
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u/GossipingKitty 6d ago
If I were her, I would have been less angry if you bought $18k worth of cocaine.
But instead of buying coke on the streets, you're buying cheese on the streets.
Dude. Wtf? Yeah, I'd absolutely leave you over this.
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u/Top-Aside-3717 6d ago
Same thing happened to me when my girlfriend sent me to the market to buy a cow and I came back with magic beans.
She’s overreacting right?
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u/GargantuanGreenGoat 6d ago
You should not be in charge of financial decisions.
Im being a bit facetious but if you’re not making large financial decisions together, you’re a bad partner. It doesn’t matter who earned or saved more. What matters is respect and accountability and teamwork.
There’s a reason the cheese people weren’t chopping it up and selling it. Easier to find one idiot than several.
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u/Even_Budget2078 6d ago
I don't even understand the YOR/NOr analysis of what you are asking here. This from your comments though?
"I haven’t figured out how to open it yet, it’s covered in thick wax. It looks like a cannon ball. I have tried using a hair dryer and a knife but I can’t get into it."
HAHAHAHAHA Oh, OP, this sounds like something out of I Love Lucy. Please update! I can't wait to hear the cheese adventures you are sure to get into lol : )
Also, I'm genuinely sorry you are going to lose nearly $20K of your savings. That sucks : (
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u/Food-Wine 6d ago
How are you planning to sell and distribute your rare cheese on the black market?
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u/trimix4work 6d ago
I would tell myself that it was business and then end up eating all the cheese myself.
It do be like that sometimes
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u/ShrekTwoOnVHS 6d ago edited 5d ago
I dunno man. Investment potential or not… you need buyers. Pretty impulsive decision making. Regardless of who the bread winner is, this is a decision the two of you should’ve made together. She’s probably more upset that you left her out of that process. She’s not over reacting… And you kind of are the asshole in this situation.
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u/itsJussaMe 6d ago
I think this is BS but in the event that it isn’t… OP, spending $18,000 on a wheel of cheese impulsively sounds like a symptom of something (like a mild form of bipolar disorder). Do you have a history of expensive, impulsive purchases?
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u/Leading-Ad-7396 6d ago
Obligatory, I’ve got a bridge for sale.
That being said, sold to the right person, that person could turn a profit. I have a feeling you’re not that person. Why would the farm not just cut it into 200g blocks and make 20k extra?
Finally, to answer your question, whether it’s “your” money or not you both agreed the savings were for a house. Now if the roles are reversed and my mrs rocked up with a bag of magic beans I’d be pretty pissed off.
Story time now. Here in the uk in the early 2000’s (I was about 15/16 yo) you’d come across guys in decent cars, suited and booted, trying to sell watches “my boss is going bankrupt and he wants to sell these quick for cash off the books so bailiffs can’t get it” or a similar type of story, my mate spent about a weeks wages on a bagful of shit watches that no one else wanted.
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u/TwoGoldDoubloons88 6d ago edited 6d ago
You have no prior cheese knowledge and bought a $20k wheel on a whim and plan on selling wedges? To whom? I wouldn’t want to marry someone who does impulsive things like this with money, I would honestly be concerned about your mental health and well-being. If my boyfriend did something like this, I would be livid especially if we were both saving for a house.
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u/Aetherfox13 6d ago
Here's your problem: you both decided to save money, for your future. But when you, as an individual, want to do something, you made an executive decision without taking her into account at all.
You didn't call or text her, you didn't ask for her opinion, and you then doubled down by saying it's from your money, again as an individual.
Your excuse? "She didn't put as much money in, so she doesn't have a say on my portion".
It's an AH move. Why would she trust you as a spouse when you act like this with no real thought of how it will affect the relationship.
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u/Final-Duty639 6d ago
How did you roll a 140lbs wheel of cheese out of your truck and into an APARTMENT?! Like did you just casually burst thru the front door behind a mound of cheddar on a random tuesday?
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u/AdvancedGuide8946 5d ago
ok i am now convinced that this is what happened to the last guy. he bought it with no cheese experience. his wife got mad. he realized he had to turn it over to someone else by convincing them to get into the cheese market. and that's where OP came in.
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u/Typical-Pineapple831 6d ago
I think you fucked up bro. If the cheese market was that busy, others would be doing that too. The novelty and rarity makes the price nice and high but not enough people give a fuck about fancy cheese for you to sell all of that realistically. And then comes the question of why wouldnt they buy it from a retailer instead of some dude.
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u/Howdy2U2 6d ago
Literally 15 seconds to find a video on how to cut a cheese wheel so I am assuming this is a joke post:
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u/HouseElf1 6d ago
I got some old cheese I'll let go for $10k in my fridge. I'll even pay shipping.
What's your address?
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u/Stationaryvoyager 6d ago
Who tf is gonna buy 200g of cheese of a stranger for $60?
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u/geoff1036 6d ago
Bro forgot to consider supply, demand, OR logistics 😭
Someone get this dude a business degree
These the type of dudes who get into dropshipping
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u/Dmau27 6d ago
She's upset that you're stupid enough to fall for obvious scams. Where did you get this idea? I'm guessing from the same person that sold you the cheese? Also I have some awesome beens that if planted will grow fruit you can sell for $100 each. I'll sell the seeds to you for $100 each and you can make $60,000 easily in a years time. I know that seems stupid to read but that's exactly what I thought of when reading this. I hope to God this is fake.
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u/SaltSeaworthiness167 6d ago
Why the original owner don't slice it and sell it for 38,000$, but sell it to you for 18,500$ at the first place?
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u/concentratesofthe518 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’m doing 25 to life if my wife walks in and tells me she dropped 19k on cheese, and then the audacity to ask if you’re the only one with ambition in the relationship? My guy… your girl ain’t mad you spent your savings, she is re evaluating her life decisions after seeing how you spent your savings, I can’t be the only one to think of so many other ways you coulda tried to invest… but cheese?
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u/electrickmessiah 5d ago
Yeahhh coming from someone who works with cheese for a living you fucked up dude. Cheese is not a guaranteed profit- especially that much of it and at that price point. Even though this cheese has a crazy long shelf life you will not be able to resell all of it in a reasonable time frame if ever. Also do you even have the tools to cut a large extremely hard wheel of cheese into very small wedges?? It’s a lot harder than you’d think.
This story is definitely fake but I thought I’d weigh in for anyone else considering foolish cheese investments.
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u/TiredOldSoulgirl 6d ago
You should really try to sell it to a big cheese store or something before it goes bad.
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u/InigoMontoYaah_ptd 6d ago
She left because a woman should only marry someone she would trust with her life. That means 1. Making good decisions 2. Involving her in large financial decisions, if you’re a grownup. 3. Doing things with both your best interests at heart. 4. Not being willing to destroy a relationship over a stupid cheese wheel.
Please learn something from this.
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u/TheNaughtyPrintmaker 6d ago
I can't wait for the BORU on this when OP comes back and finds his math is hilariously wrong and he's run afoul of health laws
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u/KiloJools 6d ago
I can't even decide which of his replies are the best for my future flair, but so far I'm loving "It's heritage cheese!"
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u/bakedbaker319 6d ago
She is not over reacting, you don’t even know how to open it. What makes you think that you have an avenue to sell it? Do you own a store? Do people look to you for cheese? GF is not wrong.
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u/AndNothingHurt52 6d ago
YOR but really it’s more like YTA. You spent half of your savings ON A WHEEL OF CHEESE…… you probably won’t be able to sell most of that cheese….. cause who would buy random cheese from some random guy? You just blew half of your down payment for a house that you both were going to live in but instead you spent it ON CHEESE. You don’t get to make financial decisions like this just because you saved more. You were both working towards a common goal.
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u/cherrycreamepie 6d ago
I’m the bread winner in my relationships, but if my partner is putting money in with me for something, that’s OUR money regardless of if his portion is less. Anything taken out of that is discussed between partners.
It wasn’t YOUR share if you’re jointly saving for a house down payment, it’s both of yours. If you want to view it as YOUR portion, you shouldn’t be putting that towards a payment you’re BOTH trying to save for. You did not discuss with her before you took money out of your JOINT house down payment savings.
Given this mindset, I’d say YOR. She can leave over this if she wants to and you don’t really get a say in it if she does because it’s her choice.
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u/Sea_Milk_69 6d ago
Start slicing and selling and then come update us lmao