I am being unreasonable. Are you?

[arizonamaybe]

So I have this hand soap. It is not expensive, but it is lovely. Almond and hibiscus. It makes my hands feel so nice. I like to wash them with it before I go out, because when I do, I forget that my hair looks like Medusa on a bad day and my weirdly belated post-pregnancy pot belly is showing. I feel like She of the Softer Than Fairy Liquid Hands. I feel like I could play tennis in a period advert.

Yesterday my MIL 'helpfully' filled my half full bottle of magic hand soap with FUCKING TAP WATER so that it would last longer.

It now has the consistency of curdled milk and my hands no longer feel soft and lovely. I am Medusa with a pot belly and there will be no tennis playing for me.

I know I'm being unreasonable, and she was only trying to help. She is lovely. But she has to die, right?

Anyone else have any unreasonable grievances to share?

That's just weird and you are perfectly within your rights to hold it against her for several years.
My DM always helpful screws up all my beautiful hung and sorted washing, ready for putting away not ironing, in to a massive basket. Then takes me about an hour to re-sort and often then needs ironing.

Dh decided t was prudent to top up my favourite olde worlde French lavender with nasty olive soap it's just not the same anymore...

Actually in my shock about the handsoap I may be misremembering (is that an actual word or a Bushism?). The pot belly slightly decreased but remained present during breastfeeding, then when I stopped I got really svelte for two months, then the breastfeeding started again and it came back bigger before.

We moved to a country famed for its pastries at around the same time. I am willing to concede that may also be a factor.

I don't think i'd mess with anyone elses soap, just my own.

Ok. So remember Spoony Fuckers? Now we can have Soapy Fuckers also.

My mum used to buy the more expensive washing up liquids. My dad always used to keep topping that up with water, so you could never just get a little squirt, it was so watery loads used to come out. Which totally defeated the object. Is it an age thing? Something to look forward to in our dotage?

I am generally being pretty u today. This morning I nearly cried because I wanted toast and we are out of bread then at work I teared up because my phone kept ringing before I had chance to write up the phone note from the last call then my friend didn't have time to meet me for lunch.
In my defence I am pregnant and my body has forgotten how to sleep.

Reminds me of my grandmother who once said to me "these concentrated washing up liquids are fine but you do have to dilute them".

I buy White Co handwash.........but refill the bottles with cheap stuff.

jenjii - exactly the same situation in our house!

OP - you are well and truly in the right

so behind my sink i have a deep window and when i found some hand soap I LIKED i put it in the window where the kids couldn't reach and left the carex out for everyone to use i have also been known to put it in the cupboard out of everyone's sight

I do this, but only to my own, never go anyone else's, and never ever with a really nice one.

I would murder anyone who decided to mess with any of my potions.

What if they watered down an already watered down bottle?!

Go and fill MIL's car with water. Tell her you heard it doubles the volume of what's in the petrol tank, and by her own rationale, that must mean her car will drive twice as far on the same fuel.

And then set fire to it for good measure.

Dh empties the dregs of one bottle of hand wash into the new one, regardless of whether they're the same kind. It irks me mightily.

I don't want bloody Lime & Mint and Mandarin mixed together. Rahhh.

Eek, I water down hand wash but it's only shitey stuff.

mrsdevere that's my fave new phrase 'Helpy Fuckers' I will wait for an opportunity to use it.

I fill soap bottles with water but only when it doesnt squirt anymore. She s being unreasonable as it was half full

This infuriates me. It doesn't happen so much with hand wash in this house, but the DDs do seem prone to leaving the top off the shampoo bottle when they shower, causing it to fill up with water and become far too sloppy when I next go to use it.

Grrrrrrrr!

As a child I collected novelty bubble baths and didn't ever want to use them. I just used to like the bottles and like smelling them. My bedroom was closest to the bathroom. All my bubble baths used to get more watery as the months went on and my parents told me that's what happens to bubble baths- they go 'off'. Took me many years to figure out that my whole family would use them if they'd run out. I never knew.

My family owe me some posh bubble bath don't they?

Helpy fuckers are annoying.
DH is forever tidying up after me, or as I call it hiding my things.

They aren't even being "helpy-fuckers" either. Just incredibly irritating ones.

DH does that with our shampoo, which invariably leads to me nearly blinding myself when I use it, because instead of it squidging out in a nice little blob on top of my head it immediately runs into my eyes like citrus-infused lava!

MY MOTHER DOES THIS! Oh thank God, I am not the only person who feels stabby about it.

She means so well. But it is SO SO VERY WRONG! It's icky and nasty and my hands feel so unwashed. And I can't bring myself to say anything because she is so delighted with herself for her thrifty ways. In my house.

Oh, and tangentially: DH will clean the bathroom now and then. As an adult who lives here too, I am not commenting either way. But! He doesn't move the fecking bottles around the bath, below the shower. So when I do it, slimy soapy scum has started to mildew. Who the hell sprays bath wash all over the bottles, but doesn't move them?!

Um, am I shampooing incorrectly? I squidge the shampoo into my hand, and then transfer it to my hair, but reading some of these comments I'm wondering if I should just be squirting said shampoo directly onto my head...?

As an aside, I add water to the handwash when there is about half a centimetre left in the bottom. But only in my own home - I wouldn't dream of doing it to anyone else's soap!

My PIL very kindly gave me some Molton Brown hand wash. DH decided it didn't agree with his skin, so bought himself some equally expensive hand wash. I noticed that DD (5) was using the toilet in our en suite all the time and was taking a deep sniff of her hands after using my precious hand wash. So I bought her her own, children's hand wash, all organic and that kind of crap, and put it in our bathroom for her. Weeks later, I watch her washing her hands in our bathroom and see that she now goes along the row of 3 hand washes, like the missing scene from goldilocks. This may be the ultimate first world problem, but I have now run out of poncy hand wash and I hold DD responsible.

Urgh they do this at work because they're tight arses. They do it in public loos too

Does anyone cut open their tubes of foundation to make it last longer?

OH "tidies" and moves everything then fucks off to sea for months on end where I can't contact him. It does my fucking head in - that has to be worse than the soap - right? Last time I had to borrow a BOTTLE OPENER from my neighbour.......