My MIL has folded all my thongs into a pile of teeny tiny triangles and I think it may be the straw that makes me lose my shit...

[Loveatthe5anddime]

Light hearted, kind off...

In-laws arrived on the 26th, they hired a cottage near by (their choice) but have so far spent all day every day with us...

MIL doesn’t really get the art of discussion and likes to speak about her childhood in monologue a LOT, quite often we can have good 20 minute stories where no one else is able to speak and with 3 DD’s it makes it tricky.

She also likes to re tell stories...

Mil “did I tell you about the time”

Every else “yes you told us about that”

Mil “retells the story which last 25 minutes”

Every story begins a very small throat clear and then a pursed lip pause for dramatic effect which makes me want to stick a knife in my eyeball!!

She is only late 50’s so can’t even blame it on being old and dithery...

Today she has take it upon herself to go into our washing basket in our bedroom,while we had nipped out, has washed all my delicates and I’ve came back to a thong tower, all folded into identical triangles...

Please tell me I’m not the only one on the edge with having relatives staying?!

If anyone, ANYONE, went near my dirty underwear, they wouldn’t be setting foot in my house again. Oh the humiliation.
#periodpants

Laughing so hard at these! My MIL drones on about what a 'total clothes horse' she used to be and such a catch and a 'fashion plate'. I've seen the pictures... let's just say that there is a LOT of embellishment going on there....

@CrankyFrankie knicker ninja. This is my favourite phrase of the day!

My MIL used to take over my house. Put her false teeth in a glass in the main bathroom and cook stinky fish in the kitchen and bring her own laundry with her , once it was wet and needed to be dried and hung up after the 4 hour journey from Hereford. She stayed for a week to 10 days each time. It was a nightmare as she slept till 2pm in the afternoon and stayed up till 2am in the morning. DH even wanted to chuck her out after 3 or 4 days. After the third time I told my DH to tell her the limit is 4 day stay and no cooking fish or other smelly lamb stews in the house. She was offended but got over it and yes, she talked non stop the whole bloody time. Drove me mad. She stopped coming after we had our kids, I think she couldn’t handle the noise and the fact that she couldn’t control them. She never tried to do any of our laundry though.

My DM does this sort of thing. Fortunately for all of us, she stays a maximum of 2 nights. No boundaries whatsoever, and if challenged can become almost hysterical, meaning the issue has to be of monumental importance to want to cope with the ensuing drama

God, it must be awful. I do that monologue thing and I'm only 57. I trace it back to when someone once told me I was like something out of Alan Bennett and I took it as a compliment.

How long is it since you did the laundry if your thongs make a tower?

Haven't read all the posts but why get so. upset about MIL helping out, and as for telling stories about life in days gone by wish I had listened more, as for the repeats, know it can be a bit wearing but where is your humanity, we all get old.......Hopefully

My MIL washed, on a 60 degree wash, an off white silk jumper with a silk trim (15 years ago….was fashionable then and also an expensive Jigsaw purchase ), along with a black velvet evening skirt. Both dry clean only.
Destroyed both items; skirt was misshapen and the colour had run in patches, into the shrunken off white top.
I was so upset but what was worse was that she ironed them and put them away, so she knew they were ruined and yet said nothing.
It was only when I noticed the dry cleaning had disappeared out of my laundry box (they were in a separate bag, to be cleaned) that I realised what she’d done.
I couldn’t confront her as she’d have become hysterical and DH’s siblings would have turned on me. So I used to sternly tell her to leave the washing alone.
I’m still not over that ruined outfit, as I loved it!

I adore my mil and she’d never think to go through my pants drawer-she does like having something to do so I normally get her to do the ironing or something

My father however-he ended up having my older 3 while I was in hospital having no4
I came home to 3 hyper kids-he’d fed them nothing but coke and sweets (knowing they didn’t have either)-and for some reason that’s best known to himself,had gone upstairs,dragged everything that was up there and tipped the whole lot down the stairs-bedding,toys,clothes,make up,shampoo,toothpaste,a random sex toy,contents of cupboards-everything that was upstairs was now on the stairs
I walked in holding my new baby,saw everything I owned downstairs had been trashed by 3 under 7’s and everything I owned upstairs was now on the bloody stairs
I got a cheery wave as he fucked off-stamping and crunching on all my stuff as he came down
I cried

My ex’s mum went on holiday with her boyfriend and took all my clothes-pants,bras,summer dresses,shoes,dressing gown,make up,handbag-the lot! (We’d gone out so she raided our room)
(We lived with her for 6 months until we got our house)
I got it all back-mainly either broken,stained or stretched when she got home
I was treated to a suitcase full of my stuff with the words
‘It’ll all need washing!’ (I had to bin 95% of it-I had very little money and had to replace it all over months-she couldn’t see the problem,and she refused to replace it all herself)
He refused to see she’d done anything wrong as they where a ‘share and share alike’ kind of family,hence he’s now an ex

What is it with ‘family’ doing this?!
I refuse to even open a cupboard door when I’m at my adult childrens homes unless they ok it first-I wouldn’t dream of just taking over-I’ll do something if I’m asked to but won’t if they dont

See how brave and loving your husband is...

Get him to complain to his Mum "Mum, you went and mixed up all my secret underwear with [your name]'s now she knows I wear them and I'm in real trouble"

@averylongtimeago I had a party one night, my mother inlaw came- loved it! FIL heard about the maddness and actually sat me down and expressed how disgusted he was and that women shouldn't be, behaving the way they were behaving, he wasn't even there! I love my inlaws, but I near wet myself when he finished with the chat, an to his face! He had no right telling me what I could and couldn't do in my home, so the sex toys on the bed would have sent him mad..lol

@Moll2020

OMG your mother went to the same school as mine!! 😂😂 did she also have to walk in 10ft snow drifts and the little bottles of milk they were given were often off & lumpy but they had to drink them ?!! 😂

That lumpy milk made me the lumpy wumman I am today, Moll.

@limitedperiodonly

God, it must be awful. I do that monologue thing and I'm only 57. I trace it back to when someone once told me I was like something out of Alan Bennett and I took it as a compliment.

As long as it's not the Lady in the Van . . .

@Cheeseandlobster

Thong tower

With little triangles! That is hilarious!

I am wondering why most of these derogatory post involve in-laws,
could it be ( dare I say it) daughter-law jealousy?
and why doesn't anyone join in the conversations, we all have some sort of interesting past events in our lives from youngsters to centenarians

and I forgot to add, my sisters and I were taught to rinse out badly soiled
knickers before they went into the wash

It's my Mum who is the monologue-r, I do often say "Mum, you've told us" but she will carry on and may shut up at the third time if telling

Her favourite subjects are het holidays and there is always lots is stories concerning Jose or John John her latest best friend (usually tour guides or concierge people)

She's currently on holiday for 8 weeks in Lanzarote and I have had a virtual verbal tour of her apartment THREE times. I know that if you turn left from the front door there is a kitchen with microwave, dishwasher and an oven and you then turn right you go through patio doors and there is a strip of grass, a path, a beach then lagoon

She even has these monologues to teen DS despite me telling her for years they are not appropriate conversations to be had with him. You can tell when she's monologue- ing on the phone as the recipient just goes quiet for ages. On her New Year's Eve phone call DS was silent for a while and mouthing " don't know what she's saying" so I took the phone to hear the lady bits if the 'tour' ....

@cassie2and2 spoken like a true MIL! 😬

@cassie2and2

and I forgot to add, my sisters and I were taught to rinse out badly soiled knickers before they went into the wash

I bet those long winter nights just flew by.

My MIL is still here after NY... she is feeding the pets 8/9 times a day (several poopsidents have occurred), rearranged all of my kitchen cupboards, availed herself of all my bedroom drawers and if that's not bad enough she stands behind me when I'm working (yes I'm back at work and she still hasn't gone!) and chats away like a disgruntled pelican. The woman can not take a hint. Also it would be nice if she would buy some food - she can certainly pack it away. Oh that feels better 

And another thing, so help me if she takes another cup of tea away before I've finished it...

@bogisbunceandbean

My MIL is still here after NY... she is feeding the pets 8/9 times a day (several poopsidents have occurred), rearranged all of my kitchen cupboards, availed herself of all my bedroom drawers and if that's not bad enough she stands behind me when I'm working (yes I'm back at work and she still hasn't gone!) and chats away like a disgruntled pelican. The woman can not take a hint. Also it would be nice if she would buy some food - she can certainly pack it away. Oh that feels better 

And another thing, so help me if she takes another cup of tea away before I've finished it...

That's so funny , you have the patience of a saint 😂😂

[quote Loveatthe5anddime]@cassie2and2 spoken like a true MIL! 😬[/quote]
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MIL stillll here

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