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To want to be able to put something down in my own home, and it still be there when I go back for it?

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BasinHaircut · 20/05/2015 07:49

My MIL is doing my head in. I know I'll get torn a new one here for daring to say something negative about her when she is doing us a favour re free childcare but I'll take that as I want to vent!

Every Tuesday MIL looks after DS at our house. I must stress that I have no complaints about the level of care she provides.

BUT she moves everything. A couple of weeks ago she went into our bedroom and moved my birth control pill from my bedside cabinet to the top of a wardrobe because 'DS got hold of it'. Now I have 2 issues with that - 1, why was she even in my bedroom, door was shut so DS couldn't get in unless she opened the door, and 2, she didn't tell me she had moved it and the next morning I couldn't find if so I missed one.

Every week she takes my oven gloves from where I hang them and puts them in a drawer because she thinks they look ugly hanging up.

She moves the toaster to a different worktop 'so it doesn't just look like it's been left out', she moves shoes left by the front door to by the back door

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/05/2015 14:25

I think you have to go for a blanket rule, Basin - 'MIL - STOP deliberately rearranging things/moving things in my house! Would you like it if I came and did the same at your home? No? Then don't do it to me - it is disrespectful!!'

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AnulTheMagnificent · 20/05/2015 18:43

Photograph everything and stick the pictures on the appropriate wall and ask her to put things back in the same position as in the photo.
Lock your bedroom, if she asks why, tell her it is because you don't want things moving while you are out.

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BasinHaircut · 20/05/2015 19:47

Ha ha that would be hilarious! I might try it.

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