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?!

My mother in law used to let herself in while we were at work and do her sons washing. Which meant going through both of our dirty cloths and picking out his stuff only. Just so fucking weird. She only started this little habit once we moved in together. DH said he was doing his own laundry since he went to uni.
So I started leaving my dildo on my bed and other bits. No matter how many times my DH told her her key was for emergencies only, she just continued. I made my DH take the key back and gave it to our neighbour instead.
But my MIL has serious issues with boundaries and being an all round arsehole. But that’s another thread.

Thongs? 🤔😱
No. My youngest DD wears them. They look v uncomfortable and just like a twisted rubber band after being worn.
I shared a house with 3 guys when on a job up North. A woman opposite used to (annoyingly uninvited) come over and ask if we had any coffee/tea etc. She told us that she had a new b/f and had bought a couple of pink fluffy thongs 🤭
After she went, one if the lads said it must look like a cheese wire going through blancmange. She was 56 and a bit weighty. 😂😂

Tong tower

The best story for a long time

Mn classic

Both my Mother and Grandmother are like this with regards to the story telling

It's just so boring

The day i do this, im shipping myself off to Dignitas

Hilarious 🤣🤣

Send her round! She sounds lovely!!!

Not sure what to say,

What are thongs?

Sorry not RTFT properly, but you know you'll now be a story for her cronies - my DIL you know, doesn't do any washing, I have been forced to was her delicates (purses lips, coughs and continues )
😱

I’d actually be very grateful to anyone who would do any of my laundry for me, also appreciate a good folding technique.

Not poverty in youth, but, oh, motherhood was such hard work...my MIl, whom I loved dearly, used to gaze at the stretch babygrows in which her DGC were speedily attired, and explain how she used to dress her three in hand-smocked dresses, hand-knitted matinée jackets, and woolly tights, all of which had to be hand-washed and then carefully ironed...and she must have changed a dozen terry nappies a day, before they invented plastic pants...she probably did too!

In recent weeks my MIL has gifted me:

• a purple raincoat to match hers, which SIL didn't want for some reason
• a knitted alice band thing, which she finds invaluable
• 'her' preferred socks, with kittens
• a polyester microfleece, as above

Tempted to put it all on together and give my husband a heart attack.

@Laiste

Oh no.

Who wants their MIL handling their knickers ??

That's intrusive.

My thoughts exactly!

And why would anyone want to go through someone else's dirty laundry?

Mazzle dazzle

She sounds like gavin and Stacey's pam!

Hilarious.

Honestly.. These mils sound great and a laugh. I'd much rather stories, someone grabbing my arm etc than what I get.

Absolutely ice cold, hello, would you like to sit and have tea. So, you've got a new supermarket." end. Of. Conversation.

Unless I talk.

No warmth, kindness or anything. certainly no stories at all. No chat. Just silence and when she does fill the airways, it's to moan or say how frugal she is or to be mean.

In fact one thing I never minded her doing or taking ownership for was laundry! She did, give her credit do wonderful things with washing.

@BaseDrops

Thank her and suggest she puts them away. In with the rest of your DH’s pants.

😂😂😂😂

@Joystir59

My friend X mil washed all my knockers and hung them out to dry on a folded airer, on our first floor flat balcony, on a windy day

Now I'm proper snorting!

I have an old friend, whose a brilliant raconteur and I've heard the stories countless times over the years. But he tells them sooo well he's so funny they are like familiar episodes of only fool and horses to me.
Also usually interesting.

On a similar thread one poster said her fil started on about laying cables in the middle East for three hours and no one could get a word in edgeways!!
That would be a killer for me.

Id be so insulted if anyone did anything more than washing some dishes in my house, unasked. Different if Im unable so ask for help. Yet my best friend lives it when the in laws come down and do her washing for her or sees a job and does it. I would go mad if I had in laws like that. Thankfully my mum knows I dont want help round the house unless I ask for it, otherwise Id be constantly herding her back to her seat!

I cannot imagine at all rifling through future son in laws dirty boxers

Urgh!!

It's hard enough doing dh a.

Oh dear, sounds like my XP's Mum!

God forbid if I was out when his parents arrived. She would march upstairs, empty the laundry basket and stick a wash on. She would then proceed to iron my knickers and socks.

One time she even started discussing my 'little knickers' at the dining table in front of the DSC.

I shit you not.......

I don't miss her (or XP)!

If only I still had any family left to tell me those tales over and over. What I wouldn't give for that. You're so lucky.😐

@Joystir59

My friend X mil washed all my knockers and hung them out to dry on a folded airer, on our first floor flat balcony, on a windy day

I’m imaging a washing line full of comedy breasts, à la Blackadder, all flapping in the breeze

@bananabutty44

If only I still had any family left to tell me those tales over and over. What I wouldn't give for that. You're so lucky.😐

Oh give over. People are allowed to complain about their in laws without someone coming along to “helpfully remind” them that they should be grateful

My mil never washed my underwear, however one Christmas I got a present from her of a pack of full briefs. Not the best .present to get at any time, but this was worse than normal. After I had opened my gift, and was looking a bit bemused at receiving something like this, she said to me that “I bought them for myself but they were a bit uncomfortable on me, so I thought they might fit you.” They were horrible briefs, but the thought that she had actually worn them (they were marked 🤢) was just too much. They went straight in the bin!

Thong tower? Oh Lordy🤣