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to be aghast at my DIL's eccentric ways?

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LargeGreenVelvetBauble · 18/11/2010 13:30

Every time she comes round she looks always has a Hmm face.

Well, let me tell you about some of her quirky ways:

She's just constantly washing her hands, between every household task. What a way to waste soap. tut.

She won't iron my PFB's underwear, when she knows he likes a crease in his socks. (I've reminded her enough several times.)

She embraces the modern throw-away culture. I can't see that she doesn't understand that those two broken microwaves might come in handy one day.

She's such a food snob - Potato Pie has served me well over the years at many a dinner party, but she gets very sniffy about it.

She doesn't have a WarCupboard Shock who knows what would happen if the shops ran out of vital supplies. Oh yes - she'd soon be round for Shredded Wheat, baked beans and loo roll then wouldn't she?

She washes tea towels - they're fine with just a quick dry on the radiator and a shake, surely?

And, don't get me started on the wanton beverage consumption. Coffee at 11 am? Shock. 11.30 am's fine though, of course.

They wouldn't even consider letting a pet in the kitchen, nice bit of company for me, Tiddles is, when I'm chopping vegetables.

On the subject of veggies - what's this new-fangled frippery about under-cooking veg - when DH and I eat a roasts at DIL's, we might as well have had raw veg with the meal, the amount of cooking time she gives them. Angry

She calls my PFB by his first name. Everyone knows that once the children has arrived it's imperative to address him as Daddy.

She will not accept that a working knowledge of bowel movement is the key to a healthy life.

I just wonder if anyone else had peculiar DILs?
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SlightlyJaded · 19/11/2010 11:20

Oh norharmdone that's shocking! A pub you say? Go and have a nice lie down dear, you've ha a shock. Perhaps when they have come to their senses they will see that you are right and you will be able to pop along to Jaques Vert and buy a lovely pastel outfit for the big day, and suprise them with a special plateful of your lovely sardine and egg vol-au-vents.

IntergalacticHussy · 19/11/2010 11:35

you think your DIL is bad - wait till you hear about mine!

1,She thinks it is acceptable to change plans to see me by giving only one week's notice!

2,She's constantly in PFB's ear, voicing her opinions, like she's a real person with actual rights or something!

3,She got herself knocked up in the first place, to trap him into a relationship, because she's too stupid to have a proper career in teaching like I have. Like everyone should have.

4,She insists its my fault that i haven't seen dd1 in 2.5 years, and haven't met dd2 at all, because I refused to have any further contact with them after event 1, occurred (see above). Obviously, it's her fault for being so unbearable i had to run away screaming, isn't it?

5, she sends back christmas gifts i send the dcs because she doesn't recognise my god given right to walk in and out of the dgcs lives whenever the heck I please. Bitch.

Serendippy · 19/11/2010 11:44

My DIL picks her baby up when it cries and CUDDLES it! How will it learn?
She also expects my DS to bath the baby when he gets in from a hard day's work when she should be getting him a cuppa AND bathing the baby at the same time, and you'd think she could make a bit of an effort for her husband, sometime she is just wearing old joggers and a t-shirt when he gets home, no make-up!
She will not give the baby a bottle so that I can have a go feeding it. If she doesn't give a bottle, how can she put the baby rice into the milk to make it sleep longer?
This woman being allowed to be a mother and wife, makes my blood run cold.

healthyElfy · 19/11/2010 11:50

The trick ladies is to lull you DIL into a false sence of security by agreeing with all this nonsence then when they lease suspect it pull a fast one on them. Like buying them some bottles of medised or getting them a nice second had car seat from someone you dont know, or even potty training the little ones when she isnt in and giving their fringe a nice trim (dont ask, she wont mind). Your sons will be so relieved to see it all done properly.

None of you suffer as much as I do, my DIL laughs when I insist on buying the Daily Mail every day, even on holiday.

Litchick · 19/11/2010 13:35

Well I don't know about everyon else but I am dreading Christmas.

DIL is terribly mean and doesn't allow us to stay for longer than four days.
This means that if we don't time things right before our trip to our other son, we may have to buy food and put on the heating.

I really don't understand why DIL makes such a fuss about Christmas. I mean, cooking three meals a day from 24th to 28th is hardly onerous is it?

Litchick · 19/11/2010 13:38

And I do think it's terribly insensitive of her to fill the house with chocolate and mince pies. She knows DH and I have diabetes.

Apparently, DIL likes to have them in for the children and her other guests.

I tell you, we know exactly where we are in the pecking order.

mamadiva · 19/11/2010 14:11

Well your tall tales are all very well and good but my satanic DIL will beat you all...

  1. Every year she asks my blue eyed boy (who can do no wrong as the sun shines from his arse obviously) to spend new year with her and their son(4) 200 miles away, lucky I spend all year scheming to buy only my DS a ticket to travel down so he can't really refuse and she has not had one new year with him since their son has been born MWAHAHA. Does'nt she understand he only has 14 days off work so he MUST spend them with me?
  1. On the rare occassin where she can also afford to come down with BEB and their DS she even expects me to buy food and gas/electric for my home whilst they visit, she just does'nt seem to understand that guests should pay for as much as possible when they are staying in my shithole home

LASTLY AND PERHAPS WORST OF ALL she actually quit her night job as she said she was too tired from working all night and looking after her son all day and doing all the housework yet she still continues to expect my DS to pay the bills when she is obviously just sitting around doing nothing all day whilst my son is busy skiving working!

HOW BLOODY DARE SHE!

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Right back to me said DIL these things are all bloody true things which have been said by the old witch at some point and after typing them out have just realised how spineless DP is and how utterly fecking twattish she is!

SlightlyJaded · 19/11/2010 14:20

And do you know, when I phone DIL of an evening to find out what she's cooking my hardworking DS for tea, she always sounds impatient and makes 'jokes' about him cooking for himself.

And I don't know why she has to sound so bloody miserable each time. I carefully time my calls to co-incide with her settling the DCs for bed so that I can demand ask to hype them up speak to them just after she's read the story.

Honestly. Young people.

PigeonPie · 19/11/2010 14:27

LargeGreenVelvetBauble you do have a section on here - it's called Gransnet Grin

BreconBeBuggered · 19/11/2010 15:28

Oh, I do sympathise, dears. My DIL is an idle slattern who only hoovers once a day and refuses point blank to take her cooker apart to clean it after every meal. It only takes half an hour or so once you get the hang of it. Though hers might take a bit longer because she will insist on having the burners up on high for some dishes. She will not grasp the fact that the pans are more important than the food. She also neglects to properly supervise the food intake of her DH, giving the feeble excuse that he is a grown man and has full access to the food in the household. My poor boy.

SlightlyJaded · 19/11/2010 15:49

Out of interest dearies. What do you think you might get your DIL for Christmas?

I'm always very thougtful. Last year I gave her a new pair of oven gloves that I bought from one of those door to door convicts chaps. Lovely they were, bright red apples all over them.

This year, I might get her some tupperware boxes because last time I looked she only had about eight, and well know you need at least forty.

SlightlyJaded · 19/11/2010 15:50

'we all know' - even. OOps so hard to type and knit at the same time

Dominatrix · 19/11/2010 16:12

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Unrulysun · 19/11/2010 16:18

Someone asked about names (was it you Edna dear? I say - WAS IT YOU?)

Well my DIL gave her daughter quite a nice name - quite posh it was and, because she likes to give herself airs and graces, because she went to university she says it's in Shakespeare (I don't hold with poncey writing myself - what's wrong with John Grisham?). So that's OK - I can show off to the neighbours. But the lazy cow is only shortening it to 'Millie'.

Well when I heard that for the first time I couldn't believe it. I'd turned up at their house when the child was two weeks old, without a gift for her because they don't need anything at that age do they? And ds was cooking a three course meal for me and dh and I was commenting on how clumsy he is and telling them they should put the baby down and wait till she cries to feed her (making a rod for their own backs there they are and no mistake) and she starts calling the child 'Millie'.

'Well' I said, 'If I'd known you were going to shorten it to that...'

but the trollop just looked at me and said 'Then you'd have done what exactly?' Cheeky tart.

I think they've got the poor little thing in the bed with them too. Unnatural that's what it is.

Dominatrix · 19/11/2010 16:22

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Unrulysun · 19/11/2010 16:25

Dominatrix my son has to iron his own work shirts. I have delicately approached the subject by suggesting to her that she cut down on the housework by not ironing pants and socks but she just laughed and said that she wasn't sure where the iron was kept. Worst of all ds then chipped in and said he was in his thirties and gainfully employed and quite able to do his own ironing.

honestly sometimes I actually think they like each other rather than living miserable parallel existences in which they snipe at one another and bicker like infants as everyone knows you're supposed to in a marriage.

loonyrationalist · 19/11/2010 16:28

I can trump you all ladies. My hussy of a dil has actually uses the set of smellies I bought her for christmas Shock Shock

This christmas I'm sticking to a safer present - 39 yards of knicker elastic Grin

usualsuspect · 19/11/2010 16:29

{biscuit] does MN really need another MIL bashing thread

KatieScarlett2833 · 19/11/2010 16:31

My bitch DIL, yes, bitch, I don't care how strong it sounds, insisted on breastfeeding both her children just to spite me when she knew I had the spare room made up into a nursery so they could sleep-over. I had a cot and a silver cross pram and everything.

She also did not give my first granddaughter my first name, she relegated it to her middle name instead. I was disgusted, she knew I was longing for a girl of my own and only had two boys.

She has worked since they were born. How they are still alive and healthy is beyond me. I gave work up immediately once I discovered I was with child as you are supposed to.

She has my perfect son babysitting during school holidays while she is at work. I always go down and take the children out to give him a break, poor love, he needs his down-time. She, of course, has to manage alone when it's her turn, serves her right for working.

Beachcomber · 19/11/2010 16:42

Well my DIL is an over-sensitive neurotic flighty piece, I can tell you.

She pulls daddy up when he makes racist comments jokes - perhaps it is because she is foreign and doesn't understand a proper sense of humour like we've got.

She also insists that her children have these new fangled allergies and gets quite rude and cross when I give them dairy products. How does the little madam think they are going to have healthy bones and teeth otherwise?

Milk has nothing to do with eczema or asthma attacks - silly girl.

Unrulysun · 19/11/2010 16:53

I'm not even allowed to comment on people's race for no particular reason Beachcomber. So I get into a discussion with someone in a tube station or something when I visit them and if I happen to so much as mention that this person wasn't White when I'm boringthepantsoffthem telling the story later, they both get a catsbumface at me.

agedknees · 19/11/2010 16:56

Well my dil dared to sleep after a 12 hour night shift (lazy cow)!!!

I put paid to that laziness though. I phoned her every day at 12pm to wake her up. She should have been ironing my sons shirts, not sleeping!!!

happygilmore · 19/11/2010 17:12
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healthyElfy · 20/11/2010 15:16

Knicker elastic! Perfect (and familiar Wink )for DIL, and perhaps the third free girt from BHS.

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