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?!

A tower of thongs? When did you last do any laundry @Loveatthe5anddime?

You mother in law sound like the hybrid version of my DM and DMIL.

My mums the one with the constant inane talking and MIL will happily go through our washing basket.

The thong tower is hilarious! I’m actually impressed you have enough thongs to form a tower!

Maybe wash your smalls a bit more often and not leave them long enough to make a tower. Sounds like she done you a favour tbh.

Yabu for wearing thongs. What are they even meant to do?

BrightYellowDaffodil Fri 31-Dec-21 14:01:11
@ElvisPresleyHadABaby

Luxury, mine had to walk 35 miles every day just to get to school and the teacher would punish them with a cattle rod.

School? School?!. We were down t’mine and grateful fer it.

Paradise! You had a ready made mine to work in. We had to dig our own mine using our bare hands, Worked 24 hours a day for no pay and were thankful for the work.

Way over the mark bit quite funny. Has she explained why she did it?

SIL got the duster and polish out and started cleaning my house midway through my PFB's 1st birthday party. The house was full of friends and relations. I thought that was shockingly rude.

I need to see the tower of thong.

My fil interfered with plumbing matters..
He was a miner pre retirement.
Smashed the toilet cistern and didn't offer to replace it.
Tried to fix the dishwasher dismantling the pipes under the sink. Drained the dishwasher and poured a full bucket down the sink.....
Flooded the kitchen as he had removed the pipes..
Happily shoved mil in the conservatory with an iron and an ironing board tbh!

Telling stories is difficult though... here, for every story you might have two people rolling their eyes and saying they've heard it before, and someone else pipes up" well, you never told me that"!

That sounds like my mum. We love her to bits but she drives us up the wall with her "helping." In her efforts to get ALL the laundry done in mine and siblings houses she has broken multiple washing machines and tumble dryers by completely overloading them. She also completely scratched our stove top by using steel wool on it when told "please don't use that."
Every time she came down to stay with us the house smelt faintly of bleach and the wrong clothes were in the wrong drawers. She used to make our bed and that irritated me and dh. It's just overstepping boundaries.

She also interrupts conversations to tell a story we've all heard a million times before. Which we usually end up politely listening to again. I think she has adhd. She's always done this but it's getting worse as she gets older.

Probably 25+ years ago , my very very dear M patched my XH(2)s pants with the scratchy net from our wedding favours 🤣 . It still makes me laugh , and in fairness, prob still makes him chuckle too ! He was a complete git in lots of ways … but he did love my mum !

I would think it was quite funny, if someone had folded up some knickers of mine, and funnier still if they were those little thong things.

I am afraid that I,as an oldie,tend to go on a bit, about my exciting life stories, with my adult Son and Daughter, I am 79, so lots to tell,, but mostly a waste of time, as they are usually stuck on phones all the time, and don't listen properly, Probably on phones, to kind of block me out a bit !!

@Cheeseandlobster

Thong tower

You can play Knicker Jenga later

Let’s play ‘intrusive/intrusion’ bingo....

Can we have a Mumsnet thong thing sing song?

I have but one in law thong story to share.

When DS was about 6 We had a wedding on DH side, it was about 50 miles away so MIL and SIL came to stay. SIL was ironing her clothes stood in her Bra and thong. DS sees this and shouts loudly down the stairs, Why is Auntie Sarah dressed as a Sumo wrestler Mummy?

Sarah is not her real name.

Oh god, Bleach Wars.

I do not use ANY bleach cleaning products as DH cannot be trusted not to spray it all over tea towels, drying washing, a massive droplet cloud of hole-making tie-dyeing, bleach splatter.

MIL is the same and simply does not believe hygiene is possible without lashings of bleach and beetles off to the shop for numerous bleach based products within minutes of arriving. I hide it, she finds it, I take it off her and replace with Eco products… I empty it down the sink, she replenishes it, and so it goes on…

She also does not believe that dishwashers are hygienic, and will empty out an almost full load and wash it in the sink.

Without rinsing.

MIL also took the metal pan scouter to the best silver plated cutlery.

Or ex-silver plated cutlery as it is now.

The scouter is another thing I hide.

I though Tower of Thong was a song by Leonard Cohen?

I would be annoyed about someone going into my room, never-mind rummaging through my laundry basket!!! What an odd thing to do!

www.amazon.co.uk/How-Murder-Your-Mother-Law/dp/0553569511?tag=mumsnetforu03-21 Will this help you can download this for free on the app. Why not buy the book and leave it on the table? Just hope im not an accessory to murder now haha.

My MIL used to "help" by invading my family life, taking over, and telling me what to do, all with the demeanor of "sweet old lady just trying to help" but really ensuring that she was top priority in my husband's life and that he was off for days taking care of her whims instead of helping his own wife (me). Eventually she started going into our dressers to put things away. Commenting on what she found in there. It was the straw that broke the camel's back for me and made me start to change things. Awful woman.

During the war.........................

She sounds like a nightmare. When are you shot of her? Can't be too soon.

I’ve been reading this out to DM, who I’m visiting. She started with ‘did I tell you about Aunty Ada and her washing?’ That she still used a mangle? Yes you did. ‘We’ll, she used to use a mangle still…’ RE-telling of story for fiftieth time. She clearly missed the point of this thread