My MIL brought me a hoover

[MrsSleepy]

Do you think she's trying to tell me something?

Ha! My mil bought me a chopping board for my 30th birthday, I'd have prefered a Hoover!

depends what she bought for your dh

Wow is it a dyson? Bettr than socks!

FIL warned DH I'd be getting a dustpan and brush - apparently her hairdresser has one that's fantastic. It didn't materialise though so either he talked her out of it or she forgot about it.

My MIL has got me a mop and bucket,but it's purple and exactly what I wanted!

No it wasn't a Dyson!

DH got Football Manager game!!

I'm rather pleased with it to be honest! She is lovely bless her and asked if I was offended! I'm putting saucepans down for next year!!!

I have always made it clear that a present for the house isn't a present for me.

My mil bought me some bog standard supermarket shampoo one year as she knew I wouldn't buy it for myself.

I'd have been delighted with a hoover. My MIL has never actually gone out, bought something and wrapped it for any member of our family unit including the DC.

I would have not been impressed with the shampoo Sweet.

Married, I am happy with it! I'm very lucky for having a nice MIL.

It's my birthday soon, Wonder what I'll get!

An iron most probably

I agree with exoticfruits. An hoover is for the house not me.

I would have been offended by this acutally, unless of course you asked for it.

She bought her son a game, something he can play with and enjoy, and she bought you something to do the household chores with. Still, as a woman, of course it must be your job to do the house while he sits there playing......

Incredibly sexist of her and a real shame you didn't get something for you. I suggest next time she visits that you are playing the game whilst DH is hoovering around you.

I agree with Kirsty. Looks like she sees your family unit the same way my SIL sees mine. How incredibly sexist and mis-balanced. While I would be greateful for a new hoover, I would expect it to be a joing gift, and we would both get a little something else that was fun (like the game)

It's a generous present, so it would be rude to do anything but accept graciously. But I would have inwardly been a bit at it being given to you rather than a joint present for you and DP.

Do you actually do the vacuuming in your house, or does she just assume that because you're female? Because it would have been a bizarre present for me, I haven't done vacuuming in more years than I can remember!

It's a generous (and practical!) gift, and it sounds like she meant well, but I think I'd have been eye-rolling if it had been MY gift rather than a joint one.

But then you live with her son, not her, so as long as he's not of the same mentality that's okay!

My eye-rolling wouldn't have been done in front of her btw.

I don't mind getting household stuff as presents at all, esp fancy gadgets. I'd probably draw the line at a set of dusters and a can of Pledge though.

I like getting helpful stuff like that but ONLY if it's a JOINT present for the two of us. If I got a housework tool and OH got something fun, I'd be LIVID.

If she gets me an iron for my birthday I will do a big eye roll!!

The funny thing is the last 3-4 times she's been round DH has been doing the housework!! I'm sure she thinks I do nothing and that was her way of a hint.

She's very old fashioned but means well. Doesn't understand her darling son is a 20th century man and partakes in the housework as equally as I do.

Bless her, a hoover is a very generous gift though!

My ex MIL got me two roller hand towels once, and they were SECOND HAND:!!!! I think that beats the rest hands down.

I became disabled and my mil bought me a fucking rechargeable lightweight hoover. And she keeps telling me how lucky I am that DH helps with our children and our housework. And she kept calling my new christmas dress 'a top' and said it'd look nice with jeans underneath. I have lost a lot of pregnancy weight lately. She has been obsessing over my weight for the last 3 years, yesterday she gave me a hug & said 'ooh I can fit my arm round you now'.
Last year she gave me a 2nd hand semi opaque kaftan-type affair in size 20. I'd never gone above a size 14-16.

OOOhhhh Precious that's not very nice

She's very good in other ways but likes to point out how in her day DH's didn't do the housework or help with the kids and she had to do it all on her own, Well tough I'm not a bloody skivvy!

DH is probably better with the kids than I am, He's very good at 'playing' whereas I get VERY bored very quickly.

Lol, I got a dyson and dp got a bottle of jagermeister off my grandparents! Funny thing is dp does more hoovering than me in this house and he's been delighted with it ;). I'm not offended as i'll be sharing the jagermeister ;)

MIL bought me a cake stand. She said 'I bought DH something for the garage and you something for the kitchen'.

I have never baked a cake in my life. DH does loads of baking and all the cooking.

she meant give up your job you slattern and wait on your DH and DS like I did