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

My MIL is obsessed with plans, every day has to have a plan and she will question me endlessly about what my plan is for the next day. Oh and roasting meat is a minefield, we all have to have a sit down and work out the timings on a piece of paper.

Well obviously I do ask my guests if they like a lot or little milk or strong or weak but I WILL not por hot water onto milk and teabag.

I did live with this friend in a shared house and apparently I did make the best tea- so nerr!

Tea doesn't have to be anything, but it is polite to make tea for other people the way they like it, not the way you like it in an attempt to convince the of the error of their ways.

You won't convince them that your tea is better. You will just convince them that you don't know how to make tea.

with you right there on making tea.
WE ARE RIGHT. OH YES.
feel a bit queasy remembering uncle putting tea bag AND MILK in mug and WANDERING when kettle boils.
IT IS WRONG.
they must be made to understand.

Tea has to be fairly strong

"I think it starts with obsessive tea drinking. I drink loads and only use certain tea bags and it has to be made a certain way strong with little milk or I literally can't drink it. Ds gets stroppy cos I just can't drink his mugs of beige luke warm slop. The tea bag doesn't work properly when it's not hot enough fgs. "

I agree I am a total fascist when it comes to making tea. I can only drink it out of white mugs. Tea looks totally wrong in a black or red mug. Water has to be freshly dawn. Water has to be boiling. I have to use the kettle at work rather than the hot water boiler. i can't stand it when DH boils the kettle to make a cuppa and then wanders off. As soon as it's boiling you have to make it ( although some say this scalds the tea).

My friend makes tea by putting milk and teabag in mug and pouring on the water. This is so wrong.

Tea has to be fairly (don't just show the water the teabag) but with a good amount f milk to take the bitterness off. It cannot be stewed.

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In the bottom..of the basket, obv

I get my washing in so the stuff that requires ironing goes in the bottom and stuff that doesn't is on the top - then I don't have to sift through it later. That doesn't count, surely?

My PILs got new heating fitted last year. Apparently its crap and they are tearing it out to be replaced AGAIN. Now, if only they would switch it on when they are cold it would be fine, but no, it's only allowed on for the 3 hours 'off-peak- time each day. They go to bed early because they're freezing, FFS!

If my dear mother is emptying the dishwasher and I come to help her, she gives me a running commentary on every item she takes out and where it came from. "There used to be four of these... we had them in Windermere avenue and they were the only pudding bowls we had... this came from that pub that does real ales, it looks as if we stole it but they had them for sale.... these bowls have lasted a very long time now, they were from Beatties, and are very handy when you don't want something too big that will make the food look stingey. It seemed very extravagant buying them at the time, it wasn't a sale. In those days before they built the bus station you could park on a back street near St Oswald's and nip directly through a snicket into the back entrance near the lavatories"

Please explain to me the matching pegs thing I need training!

Oh crap Mr Tigga:

matching pegs - check
airing perfectly dried washing - check
Cub only to eat at the table - check
Recycling protocol - check
Tins lined up with labels facing the same way - check (although I broke him of this habit)
Slippers - check
Tea bag squeezing - check
Everything in Tupperware - check

Me:

Coffee/Tea etc in jars - check
spoons for coffee/sugar in jar so it doesn't get gunky - check

He's 40 this year, LaQueen I'll take the name of your divorce lawyer when you get one.

HappySpontaneousSlatternApartFromTheTeaTiggaxx

We have a tub for tea bags but this is because DH drinks so much that when they went straight in the bin all the time the lid went mouldy...now I keep them for the compost bin.

Are you my sister?

One of my Dad's most often used quotes is "that'll come in handy someday"

I use matching pegs too!

All washing is pegged out in a specific order size-wise and per person. My pegs are also used in colour order.

I'll get me coat

I like using matching washing pegs

My DM (of matching washing pegs fame) is not even 60.

Matching clothes pegs!! A new level of washing standard has been set. I must keep up

Oh dear. How old are all these ILs of which you speak? I am now getting worried about what my DC will be listing as my odd behaviour . Great thread though. < eyes up Lakeland tea bag waste bin>

My DF collects bits of skirting board and window sills in case he needs them for the never ending repairs on his house. He calls these bits if wood 'timber'

Every time I see him he'll explain in great detail how he's repaired something with a bit of 'timber'.

He also pronounces names wrongly, even after being corrected every time. From people's names to company names. Someone called Robin was called Robert by by dad all his life, he knew it was Robin but insisted on calling him Robert. He pronounces Santander Santan-der rather than San-tan-dair like on the adverts
Drives me insane