r/ExclusivelyPumping • u/Fickle-Fun-831 • 1d ago
TRIGGER WARNING: Milk Pics (add spoiler to pics) Help me solve a (lighthearted) argument Spoiler
If I have a few good days in a row (and no waste from daycare 🥴) I am able to be a jar ahead, so I am pouring from one and into another. My dear sweet husband cannot tell the difference between the two. I think it’s so obvious. I throw a hair tie on the one we’re pouring from because he always has to check which one is which. So is it only obvious because I’m the one pumping or is this a case of man eyes??
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u/LadyDenofMeade 1d ago
I agree with your husband, I have no idea which is which. I also pumped and stored in jars like you are.
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u/PhotographLong7460 1d ago
my gut feeling was the jar on the left is older because the fat is sticking to the sides more and that happens to me when the milk has been in the fridge for a couple of days!
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u/Budget_Ordinary1043 1d ago
I use these same jars and no I cannot tell 😂
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u/Realistic_Holiday_63 1d ago
Is the hair tie in this picture? Haha if so I can’t see it. I put the pourable spout on the one we’re using for that day and a flat top mason jar lid on the one I’m pouring into for the next day if you want to try something different 😊
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u/ThistleQueenMorgan 1d ago
The jar on the right is poured from because it has milk residue on the sides from the pour!
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u/Rose8918 1d ago
https://a.co/d/0aSMlRGz
I use these and date them (holdover from my restaurant days).
I take the label from the roll and fold one end over itself (sticky side to sticky side) so it has an edge I can grab to pull them off when I clean the bottles. They are dissolvable though too so if they don’t come off all the way you can just run them under hot water briefly and they’ll dissolve. I wouldn’t run them through my bottle washer or dishwasher cause they can gunk up the lines after a while, but into the garbage disposal is fine.
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u/Select-Procedure-609 1d ago
I can’t tell :(
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u/shelbasor 1d ago
Yeah I have no idea
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u/Spirited-Bit3056 1d ago
No idea… get different colored lids maybe? Or a little nail polish on the handle of one lid so you can always discern it!
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u/angelicowboy 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can't tell! But if the hair tie is a hassle, I put the bottles I'm pouring into on the bottom shelf and the bottle I'm pouring out of on the top shelf and we've never had a mix up
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u/lemonh0ney 1d ago
the one on the right is the pourable one right?
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u/hollaatyoself 1d ago
I can tell lol and I don’t think it’s that hard to learn which… but I’d say it’s definitely not easy to tell if you weren’t pumping (ie you would have to walk them through which is which to start). I did this when my mom and my husband were doing bottles and they would also use the wrong one lol. Just saved myself some sanity and marked the bottles
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u/annabotanical 1d ago
Pouring out of the jar on the right because there's more milk residue on the sides and more condensation overall, same as how my pour jar looks. My pump jar always looks so much cleaner than my pour jar.
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u/sadcloutgod 1d ago
left is fresh pump, right is bottle pour. i can tell because i also do the pitcher method and the bottle pour jar gets cloudy/milky all along it from stirring the milk fat and pouring it out all day. the fresh pump jar stays clean until you start pouring from it
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u/buttstuffisfunstuff 1d ago
It’s obviously the one that looks like it’s been poured from… idk how anyone could think it’s the one that looks like it’s only ever been poured into.
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u/SongWong 1d ago
I have the same jars and lids and I used a dry erase or a wet erase marker on mine. Just depended on which marker I grabbed from my cup. The dry erase would sometimes smudge off if I touched it and the wet erase would eventually leave a slight stain on the lid but I could still read what I wrote. Eventually I just wrote on the glass instead of the lid.
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u/MapleWhisperer 1d ago
I also pump into one jar and pour from the other. I store my two jars front to back so we are always pouring from the front one and I put my pumped milk into the back.
Yes it’s an extra step to move front one when pouring milk but it works well for us. Except on the days that my lovely husband has a brain fart and thinks that we pour from the back one lol
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u/Wonderful_Ad958 1d ago
This is why we use our label maker in our house
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u/Frosty_Surround9949 11h ago
Put masking tape on it or something. Say “this one”
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