In thinking they can sodding well drink water for the week?

[VikingVagine]

I'm on holiday with the inlaws for the week (no comment). Anyway, we are splitting the cost of everything 3 ways (three families, makes sense). We did a huge shop on Sunday morning (ie less than 48 hours ago) for the whole week and agreed that we would try and not buy anything else (it came to ?350).

Come this morning, DH serves himself a glass of coke and I ask if I can have a glass too, he gives me his glass saying that there's no more left . I say we'll just be drinking water for rest of the week then, queue MIL starting a new shopping list with coke at the top. I say to both DH and MIL that it's not really a basic necessity and I'm sure we don't need to go shopping again so soon for coke (knowing full well the bill will end up being another hundred ? or so). So MIL adds fruit juice and coffee to the list too.

DH is constantly nagging me about not being able to afford things, AIBU in telling him if we buy more bloody coke, I do not want to hear any more comments about not being able to afford things when we're in the chocolate isle at the supermarket ?

WTF why??? What was the point?

I do not know and nobody has ever dared ask my aunt; she is not the sort of woman you would question.

Presumably they did do some other things in Florida in addition to walking around Disney watching other people enjoying themselves.

Is it normal for people to be so uptight on holiday? This is the second thread like this.

VikingVagine, I think you are not unreasonable. Your husband should do as he's bloody well told. If you want chocolate and you are deemed unworthy of the shopping experience, then he should buy it for you. And not cheap rubbish either. You should have exactly what you want.

My thoughts precisely Imp .

Now that he's given in to the chocolate I'm wondering if there's anything else I should be asking for.

Maybe some new flip flops, one can never have too many eh? I'm pretty sure they'd count as a bare necessity. Or some rum, someone mentioned rum up thread, I might drink more coke if it was diluted with rum.

Your holiday sounds very boring. The very fact you have the time/inclination to go on MN and whinge and whine about what you are and aren't allowed to eat/drink/do speaks for itself. Ever heard of autonomy? I don't let anyone in this world 'allow' me (or not) to do things.

My holiday is indeed very boring, but that's ok, boring can be nice for a change. Crap chocolate however is a problem of international importance.

Wow Peaksandtroughs, I want to know more about this Florida trip your sister had!

VikingVagine Join the DH on his shopping trip later. Pick up a separate basket and do a supermarket sweep style dash to the choccy isle and fill up that basket to the brim with lubberly choc.

Come back on MM and list all the different types of choc you have bought. I am endlessy interested in overseas brands of nice food stuffs.

I think that is a good idea, just making sure DD is asleep first!

Peaks "those giant Suchard chocolate things that are the size of a walnut whip" are Rocher. I love them. I'd almost consider a trip on the Eurostar for them alone.

Like almost every other AIBU question, its not about coke, or chocolate, or the in-laws.

Its that your dh is (or is being) A Twat.

I thought the point of holidays was to go away, relax, sightsee and eat and drink nice food.

Theres no way on Gods earth I'd be going on holiday to eat mashed potatoes and tinned veg. If everyone else wants to eat that, no problem, the can suit themselves.

But I'd be taking myself off to the shops and buying some lovely cheese, meat, olives and a few bars of chocolate (and wine, crisps and nuts).

You can have them shipped to the UK!

uk.saveurdujour.com/rocher-suchard-lait-p-993.html

And look at this one (second picture down), in all its glory!

www.chocoladdict.fr/2012/02/jedeclaireouvertela1erceremoniedescesarsduchocolat/

I am now stocked up on :

Lindt Excellence in the following flavours: mint, orange, salt/caramel, wasabi , Côte d'or milk, and some Milka just for the hell of it kids.

Rum to make mojitos

Bacon, cheese and crackers.

Oh, and Jaffa cakes.

Sounds like a well and truly budget busting trip to the supermarche there viking

The point of the holiday isn't to visit things or make the most of the sights and surroundings (for that we would have gone further than an hour from home).

Pmsl

Oh that was just my separate basket, the group basket came to over ?150...

Have just read the entire thread and realised when I closed it that I felt genuine relief when it all worked out ok. Oh, god I need to get out more. I wish to God I was being ironic.

I think I'm going to pass myself a