Omg such anality from pil. Come and share your anal behaviour stories (lighthearted)

Oh and she puts her iron back in the original box (in original plastic bag, with original plastic tie thing) after she uses it. Iron is at least 5 years old.

My mother also gets very anxious at the thought of buying anything online, because of course, as soon as she clicks 'place order', a beacon flashes across the internet to all of the fraudsters and she will definitely have her account cleaned out.

She is perfectly ok to do her banking online though, because you can trust banks can't you?

My brother tried explaining that even banking online is targeted by fraudsters occasionally, and that it always paid to proceed with caution, but mother says that is scaremongering.

My DPs once stayed at our house to babysit overnight one Saturday. They were security obsessed and decided to put DH's wallet somewhere safe rather than leave it out overnight for the (non existent) burglars to find. Monday morning saw a frantic search for said wallet as a taxi waited outside to take DH to the airport. DPs had forgotten to put it back. It was located after a rather tense early morning phone call to DPs.
DF now no longer with us, but DM still driving me mad with door closing, locking, unlocking, checking, rechecking etc before leaving the house.

I have to text when I get home. But only my father because mother cannot use her very basic phone. They live 15 minutes away by car on good roads.

My mil goes through all of her junk mail and cuts off her name and address before binning them....

We have to do 3 Euphemia

Lol at some of these
My ils aren't funny, just toxic, but my dm on the other hand cracks me up.
dm won't purchase anything online as she thinks fraudsters will fleece her, so gets me to use my card instead
She constantly charges her mobile, if it goes anything below 0 back on charge it goes
She also wears a wooly hat indoors if i'm cooking and an overtop as she can't stand the smell of food on her
I feel mean putting these, but it's so funny...

Oh yes, ILs also have a shower drying protocol with a squeegee thingy. I always have a shower immediately before Dh so he has to sort it out. By the flipping time I've done it I need another bloody shower

And making cups of tea. OMG I try to make it while they're not around so I can just stick the bag in a mug. If they're around you have to follow the tea making rules:
Fill kettle with fresh water and boil
Pour water into teapot "to warm the pot"
Empty rest of water down sink, fill kettle with fresh water and boil
Empty water from teapot
Add teabag to tea pot and pour freshly boiled water on
Set oven timer for 3 minutes
When oven beeps, pour into mug and add milk
By the time it's ready I'm wishing I hadn't bothered saying I'd have one, especially as I'm only allwed 'normal' tea or FIL's Earl Grey. MIL won't share her fruit teas with me

SoggySummer Your post at 13.18 has me in stitches!!

My xMIL has been through countless mobile phones and cordless phones by insisting on leaving them permanently on charge. She never allows them to discharge before recharging, just keeps on recharging them. Inevitably, the battery dies and then she wonders why, once again, they haven't lasted, despite everyone explaining to her a thousand times.

I know you can get phones that can be left permanently on charge now, but xMIL refuses to buy any of those which are suggested to her, because she doesn't like the look of them.

Over christmas, both her cordless phone and her mobile batteries have died again. She has had both phones no more than 6 months.

She also plugged all of our phones, laptops and mobiles in when she visited.

When we go visit we have to text when we come off the motorway so they can 'swap the cars around' (this involves parking one car in the street so we can park in the drive). I cannot for the life of me work out why they can't move the car when they feel like it or when a space becomes available in the street, because sometimes it's all too late and all the street places are full.

My SIL wipes her oven out after very use.

My dad nearly had a heart attack once because my DDs were baking. Watching them cracking eggs was more stress than he could bear.

Him (covering his eyes with one hand, clutching his chest with the other) - I can't look, oh I can't look.

Me - It's only an egg.

Him - No, I can't take it.

He left. They baked. Yum.

As an aside - I was never allowed to help my mum in the kitchen, never mind being let loose with eggs n flour n stuff.

At my parents all shower gels, shampoos etc are dried and put into a cupboard after showering.

YYY! SIL and BIL have a post shower drying protocol as well! When we stayed there recently we found a brand new squeegee scraper thing like window cleaners use, and a brand new chamois leather placed strategically in the shower cubicle of the guest bathroom, just for us. We both took great delight in ignoring them.

I have. an ex who was like that when he was 28.

He cleaned his house on the same day each week even though it was never dirty, went food shopping on the same day and filled his car up with petrol on the same day.

He had to have bread and butter with every meal no matter what it was.

He never used his debit card to pay for anything, he'd decide the night before how much he'd need to spend then take it out of the cash point. Then he'd phone his mum and she would write down what he'd withdrawn and how much he had left in a little book. Sometimes he'd phone his mum first to make sure he could afford what he was planning to spend.

I stayed at his house one night and the 2 coffee cups we'd used had to be washed, dried and put away and the sink rinsed and dried with a cover over it before we could go to bed.

He lasted 4 weeks before i ran away screaming!

My Dad cannot get his head round buying a take out coffee at all. You make coffee at home, and certainly don't wander round glugging it-that's uncouth apparently.

notmy idea DH records petrol and mileage every time he fills up and thinks I am mad because I laugh at him for it.

It will probably short circuit his brain tomorrow when he doesn't get his bacon and egg brunch because I'm scared I'm going to turn as batty as the rest of his family if i cook one every week

Allalonenow, don't worry it's not the itinerary itself that makes me laugh and I see why you might leave contact information. The is for the way it is written and the overboard detailing ('NB: CRUCIAL'/0600 hours bits/seat numbers/the embassy) that is provided to family members ...about 6 couples received a 'pack' of itinerary, photocopies and documents

My grandparents used to do the eating at set times thing. I used to go for lunch from school sometimes so I could use my dinner money for sweets and used to get there 12:15 and mine would be plated up as Grandad ate at 12 on the dot!

My mum does the travel itinery thing. Even if she leaves my Dad at home I get it though dad is a bit scatterbrained

My BIL/SIL change clothes 7 or 8 times a day. Pjs, house clothes, dog walking clothes, house clothes, work clothes, house clothes , going out clothes etc... Dh warned me before I stayed with them but I spent the whole weekend soooo frustrated waiting to go out.