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My house isn’t a ‘real’ house and my toilet isn’t a ‘proper’ toilet !

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 08:54

According to my DM ......

I have a council house and a secure lifetime tenancy, according to her this still isn’t a ‘real’ house not like dsis flat as she has a mortgage .......

Dsis has 2 REAL PLUMBED in toilets and my second one is a macerator so it’s not a proper toilet

And best of all my dh who works full time ........ his job ‘isn’t as good or important’ as bil job because .....
Bil wears a suit to work 🤣🤣🤣

I give up I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

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Coconutbug · 19/10/2019 09:58

Lol I know so many people in high positions at work, general managers, directors etc and none of them wear suits to work! At the very least they wear a open shirt and trousers. But most don't at all!! That's so silly.

Poor DM!!!

KnittingSister · 19/10/2019 09:58

Our first house had a macerator toilet, which we installed, it was in the main bathroom. It dealt with all that we put down there Grin
The 'proper' loo was next to the back door. It may not have had heating brrr!
Both our houses were ex council, they're lovely, as they're mortgaged, does that make them 'proper', or because they were council first are they not proper?? (Houses were consecutive, not concurrent, just in case that's not clear!)

Anyway, suffice to say that your DM is crackers (sorry) is she not pleased her DD is happy, warm, dry, safe, housed?!

WineIsMyCarb · 19/10/2019 09:58

Is it made of straw or sticks like 2 of the 3 little pigs? If so I agree, it's really more of a temporary shelter.

Otherwise she's crackers and can buzz off (DC are here so am being very polite!)

Wilmalovescake · 19/10/2019 09:59

We had a saniflo loo for years in a previous house and used it for all purposes with no problems at all!

Greyhound22 · 19/10/2019 10:04

I have this off various family members OP - we live in a flat belonging to and next door to PIL. Whilst this may sound a nightmare for some I actually love it. I get on really well with PIL and MIL is a great support with childcare and with me as I am unwell. Just this week I've had:

'Well when you get a proper house'

'I don't know where you're going to put all this stuff' *tinkly laugh'

'You need to move out really - DS needs a garden' (we have one - big enough that there's a 10ft trampoline in the middle of it.

It actually really upsets me as I feel like everyone is talking about us behind our backs. I actually rarely take fuck all interest in other people's living arrangements.

I would limit the time you spend with her. Can't stand people like that.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 19/10/2019 10:06

Ive now got adverts for plumbers and macerators down tge side if my page.
Start calling her Hyacinth.

Greyhound22 · 19/10/2019 10:07

Oh and my DH wears a boilersuit that's normally filthy to work. He earns a lot more than any of the men at my office in their suits do. She sounds a bit dimwitted.

cricketmum84 · 19/10/2019 10:09

She sounds batshit 😂

At least you can laugh at her comments and don't take them to heart.

I think you should set up a twitter account using #batshitMILgems and tweet every time she comes out with something crazy!

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:10

Dh literally only wore a suit for our wedding! I can’t imagine him in one now but to dm it means so much !

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cricketmum84 · 19/10/2019 10:11

Sorry just realised I read it wrong and it's your Mum and not your MIL.

Same applies though!

WhiskeyLullaby · 19/10/2019 10:12

I have one of those. Mothers,not toilets.Grin

DD and a friend's daughter started school the same day,same school,same class,same uniform(which we bought together at the same place. Mum thinks my friend is wealthy,fancy and a proper woman/grownup.

She kept insisting that my friend's DD uniform was better,looked better and neater and better quality than DD's.GrinGrin

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:13

I think her absolute worst ever and highly offensive comment (and the point at which contact was massively scaled back) was the day she said to me I need led to get an ancestry test done as her friends were asking questions about dh ethnicity and why the children were born with brown eyes. She said it’s ‘better to know but she wasn’t being racist’ which is a million tones worse than her digs about social class etc
Suffice to say she never got her diy or shopping done by dh ever again he just refuses to speak to her

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:16

It’s literally bdays, Xmas and family gatherings where we have to listen to her opinions about how superior everyone else is. Tbh she doesn’t know yet but this year we have planned to not see anyone at Xmas we think it’s time we stopped but I’m waiting to break the news to her about that one. Probably at 1155pm on Xmas eve, via text then I might turn my phone off ..

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:19

She also told me a few months ago ‘it’s not too late you could still be a doctor you know if you TRIED’

Erm, I’m 37 with just a handful of GCSEs somehow I don’t think that’s possible

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RueCambon · 19/10/2019 10:23

Secure life time tenancy not to be sniffed out, that's great. BDon't understand the toilet thing.

BarbaraofSeville · 19/10/2019 10:23

As if what a person wears to work has any bearing on how important their job is.

For example if your DH is a binman, she'd be quick to moan if all the binmen suddenly quit to go off and get jobs that they could wear suits to, so that they were proper and important and all that.

Imagine how many more marketing managers and other good and important workers like salesmen they could be if no-one did useless jobs like emptying the bins, because it's obviously far less important.

CymaticPrincess88 · 19/10/2019 10:27

www.reddit.com/r/insaneparents

wotsittoyou · 19/10/2019 10:29

One of my most vivid memories from my first child's birth was the beautiful knitted jumper the consultant was wearing. So chunky and with such depth of colour... just super duper quality. I'm imagining his mil telling him he didn't have a proper job now.

RueCambon · 19/10/2019 10:29

The suit to work obsession is funny. Apart from law, and that's the only exception really, traditionally I would have said that the 'jobs' you don't need a degree to go in to like banking or insurance or estate agents wear suits to work, I know for years I had to wear a suit but my brother who was educated wore jeans and a jumper to work. So my mum gets that. But she is very disappointed in me although her own life is ''smaller'' than mine.

It's sad, trying to live through your adult daughter. YOu'd think she'd have figured out by now, her life is what she makes of it. I'd tell her it's not too later for her to be a doctor!

violettrose28 · 19/10/2019 10:31

we inherited a mascerator-fitted ensuite bathroom when we moved here. Fifteen years later and it's still the same bathroom and still going strong.

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:32

She gives occasional style advice too ....

On my 30 th bday she said I needed to book an appointment to have my hair ‘cut into a nice bob as over 30 you can’t have long hair’

She also recommended I get some nice smart flat foot gloves from m and s and wear a polo neck and a knee length skirt more suited to my age. She’s comedy gold really With her style tips
Everything else she’s just rude

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HalfBloodPrincess · 19/10/2019 10:34

I was told my family isn't a proper family because I'm a single parent Hmm

Ambidexte · 19/10/2019 10:34

I read your thread title and assumed that you were living in a cave and pooping in a bucket.

Then read your OP and realised that it's actually your DM's opinions that are the bucket of shit...

Seriously, I would not be in contact with this person. Bye bye Hyacinth Smile

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ChocoIateandTea · 19/10/2019 10:36

Well I think we will have a nicer Xmas with not seeing her this year

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BarbaraofSeville · 19/10/2019 10:36

Well my DP doesn't even own a suit, we only have one toilet and live in an ex council house so I don't know how unreal she would consider our house and lifestyle.

Ironically one of the many jobs he used to do was all the sealing around toilets, baths etc in new build houses and he used to comment about the multitude of toilets, with upstairs toilets, downstairs toilets, multiple ensuites and he would come home and say things like 'I don't know why people need so many toilets' one house had five and yet the bedrooms were too small to have a bed and a wardrobe.