What’s a weird thing your In-Laws do?

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I was thinking there about how my BIL maintains that all families are a little bit weird to someone else.

Thought he was being flippant but then I remembered that my in-laws keep their family toothbrushes and toothpaste in a drawer in their bathroom. If you need a bit of floss after Sunday lunch you need to stick your hand into a sticky, damp mass of plastic and bristles.

What slightly weird things do your in-laws do?

Not in laws but my own Mum.

Chocolate biscuits and a fizzy drink right before bed. Her theory was we'd do our teeth straight after. I find it so bizarre now that I have my own DC! Mine have milk or water before bed. And I was one of 6. How were we not bouncing off the walls?!

Me too

FIL likes to walk around barefoot from spring-autumn, even in shopping centres and he once tried to go into a restaurant barefoot 🫣 though he may have just forgotten he had no shoes on then!

There's many more but I can't remember them just now!

My DM is the total opposite of ILs regarding waste. She'll buy a whole roasted chicken, cut off the breasts, pronounce "God forgive me" then throw the rest of the chicken into the bin 😵

FIL can't get on with bifocals, so instead he wears one contact lens and closes one eye if he wants to see far away. If he wants to read something, he closes the long-distance eye, opens the other and uses a little magnifying glass he carries for that purpose.

I literally burst out laughing 🤣🤣🤣

God forgive me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am absolutely enthralled. 🤩

🤣🤣 I used to work with a lady who was quite a bit older than me - she's retired and well into her 70's now. We became really close and still speak and meet up regularly, she is amazing, she's hilarious and I love her to death, but she has a funny thing about cards being posted. We met up for lunch before Christmas, and a few days later a Christmas card arrived from her through the post, she had gone straight from our lunch and put her cards in the postbox.

They could ONLY go shopping on a Saturday afternoon, any other day/time the supermarkets are entirely empty of food.

My parents are like this and it drives me crazy! They will only ever go near a shop on a Saturday afternoon and then will complain about how busy they are. Well yes, it’s Saturday afternoon, you have all day, every day to go shopping so why would you pick the busiest day?

Nothing. Mine do nothing.

no hobbies, don’t go out, don’t go on dates.

There is literally nothing to talk about.

So. Many. Things. But they think they are completely normal and that everybody does these things!

For instance, with birthday or Christmas presents, they will wrap them still in the shopping bag of the shop they bought it from. I could kind of understand this if it was a particularly pretty bag or special shop, but we're talking a jumper in a Next bag and then wrapped, or a book in a WHSmith bag and then wrapped! I find it so odd! DH used to do it too when we first met but thankfully stopped.

They also put their food shopping in the fridge still in their shopping bags - only the fridge though; cupboard groceries get taken out because obviously that would be strange. DH still does this too despite my efforts to get him to stop.

Cheese wrappers - every lunch time, every single cheese they own gets carefully unwrapped and placed on a cheese board (whether anyone wants them or not). The wrappers get very neatly folded and placed to the side. After lunch, the cheese gets re-wrapped in its wrapper and then also wrapped in cling film - and MIL and FIL are like a well-oiled machine, standing side by side, MIL replacing the wrapper while FIL tears the perfectly sized bit of cling film to do the second layer, and there are typically 6-8 blocks of cheese to wrap. It's like they think the cheese is completely unidentifiable without its wrapper. I have also witnessed what happens if - heaven forbid - a wrapper goes awol. MIL flapping around the kitchen wailing "oh no, what on earth has happened to the brie wrapper" as if it's the worst thing that ever happened to her, and FIL with his Very Serious Face on, muttering and desperately rummaging through the bin trying to retrieve it. It is both fascinating and ridiculous to watch in equal measure!

MIL will also never touch the door handles of public toilets because 'you never know who hasn't washed their hands and then touched them'. She always covers her fingers with tissue to do locks and uses her shoulder, elbow or occasionally feet to open doors 🫤

MIL will also never touch the door handles of public toilets because 'you never know who hasn't washed their hands and then touched them'. She always covers her fingers with tissue to do locks and uses her shoulder, elbow or occasionally feet to open doors

I'm with her on that one.

Some weird, some gross.......

-Leave cooked food (meat, fish) in the oven overnight and then eat it the next day. Sometimes get food poisoning.
-don't use bin bags, all rubbish goes in a bucket then tipped into wheelie bin
-doesn't wash her own hair.... Ever. Always has hairdresser come to house multiple times a week
-wraps birthday presents in Christmas paper

My mum used to say that sort of thing to me, and I didn't like it one single bit.

Oh my God that's hysterical!!! 🤣🤣🤣

My MIL always books her hair appointment for the busiest slot, Saturday mid morning. She does nothing all month but will not change this. It annoys me, so many people desperate for that slot! ILs have 2 unused good rooms only opened for Christmas, then locked up again. I've known DH over 25 years and they have never had visitors ever, so the rooms are just for themselves.

I'm only halfway through the thread but the individual large apple pies and the ripping off bits of still-being-used packaging to throw away are my favourites so far! Just mad!

I don't have many, except my in-laws never drink water, just endless cups of tea. And I like tea! But sometimes you can just have water if you're thirsty, you know!

Both are good for the garden. But you have to take the wrapping off the tea bag 😊

Old fashioned gallantry. At a formal dinner, men would always pour for the women in the same way they might pull your chair back or help you with your coat. I've been to dinners like this, but I wouldn't have the patience for it at home.

Monday washday is traditional. My gm did this too and I think most people of her generation.

Mine bought a new sofa and chair set about 20 years ago. Immediately covered it in those sheets you use for protecting furniture when decorating and they’ve never taken them off. If you get onto the topic with them they’ll tell you “that’s why it’s lasted so long”. 😆

Men are clarty gits who dont care enough to mention or even care what their in-laws do.

Never shower or have a bath. Strip wash only!

My grandparents used to do this. No idea why

This has utterly cracked me up!