1. An apron that looked like this, and it was usually one she had had for years:
2. Wooden coasters that she got as a souvenir, but that didn't do anything to actually help absorb condensation:
3. A bowl of these strawberry candies, and you never knew how old they really were:
4. A tin of butter cookies that was actually just her sewing kit:
Cuban abuela: sewing kit. Though about 3% of the time actual cookies. I checked...every single time https://t.co/9vsep9xo2X
5. A cabinet full of plastic bags:
6. Fruit and vegetable magnets all over the fridge:
7. Very old decorative plastic fruit that she had on her dining room table for as long as you could remember:
8. The one vinyl table cloth that she always used:
9. A random angel Christmas decoration that she always forgot to put away after the holidays:
10. Lots of old issues of Vanidades that she refused to throw away because there was an article in it that she wanted to reread:
11. A dinner plate set that looked like this and that you couldn't remember a time she didn't have it:
12. A cabinet full of things you could NEVER touch:
13. Photos of you and all her other grandkids in big, chunky, plastic themed frames like this:
Mexican abuelas always have frames with random ballerinas on them lol
14. A cafetera that literally looked like like it had seen better days (but it still made great cafecito):
15. A can of Café Bustelo (which didn't always have coffee inside it):
16. This step stool stored in a random bedroom closet, hall closet, or behind a door:
17. A brassy or gold kitchen wall clock, which you always thought looked kinda fancy:
18. The ONE pan she always used, even though she had cabinets full of newer and better pans:
19. This EXACT roasting pan:
20. And this EXACT large pot, which only came out to cook foods for holidays and special occasions:
21. Her oven full of baking sheets and pans, because it also doubled as extra storage space:
when you're about to turn on the oven and then you remember you're hispanic #GrowingUpHispanic
22. The super-size 2.5 gallon bottle of Mazola (usually stored under the sink) that she would have to pour into another, smaller container so she could use it more easily:
23. A container full of Sweet'N Low, Equal, and sugar packets that she had taken from restaurants over the years:
24. This photo of Jesus, which creeped you out 'cause the eyes would follow you everywhere:
25. This exact entertainment center and TV set up...
26. ...or a TV like this, which your abuela refused to replace 'cause it still worked and she saw nothing wrong with it:
27. These icons always on her TV screen — and you could never interrupt her when she was watching them:
These people ran your TV #GrowingUpHispanic
28. Towels for DECORATION, not DRYING, in the bathroom:
29. A bottle of Agua de Violetas...
30. ...and Jean Nate always on her bathroom counter:
31. Of course, there was always a jar or two of Vicks VapoRub sitting out somewhere around her house:
32. And also the small tin of VapoRub that was on her nightstand:
33. Several recuerditos from weddings, quinceañeras, and baptisms she had been to over the last couple of decades:
34. And a collection of vases that she had from the centerpieces she took from weddings and quinceañeras:
35. A collection of religious candles:
36. These house slippers:
37. And finally, the 15 different containers of Country Crock in the kitchen — which had everything but butter in them:
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