DPs dad really grates my cheese sometimes

[RubaDubMum89]

Ugh, this is kind of a rant so apologies in advance.

DP's dad is generally a nice man and we do get on well for the most part. However, some things he does really piss me off (maybe irrationally?).

• He ALWAYS opens our fridge and makes comments on what's in there. For example, "Oh, you two don't know how to buy in ones or twos do you?" or "Gosh, theres more in here than DP's mum and I ever had in, we used to go to the shop everyday!". For some reason this really gets on my nerves, just get out of my fridge! Yes, we bulk buy and save money and yes, I do a weekly shop! DP's dad is the kind that will have £1,000 in the bank, but go and put a £5 on the electric to just cover the emergency credit renewal.

-Similarly, he walks around the downstairs looking in our cupboards / draws etc. He doesn't make comments about these, he just looks, but I find it really fucking rude! Why are you doing that?

-He jabbers really loudly at my daughter all the time, shouting non-sensical words at her, literally, for 10-15 mins at a time. He doesn't mean any harm by it obviously, but when I try tell him to use words to her or sounds as shes starting to pick these things up now and it helps her learn, he just jabbers louder. All the time. ALL the time. Like, when im trying to feed her and he's distracting her or I'm trying to shush her to sleep and he's doing it.

AIBU? Or am I just in the throws of PMS/teething baby sleeplessness and loosing my rag?

Post it:

"Get your head out of our fucking fridge!"

I feel your pain.
My fil taught my son Jim Davidson jokes, and really rude songs when he was a toddler. Told him off (I'm a very forthright person, try to be nice about it though) but he just did it in secret instead, when I was off getting a shower etc. They don't change unfortunately. If I express any annoyance, I am a big old party pooper.
Yes, it was hysterical when he repeated what he had learnt at nursery

We always get told we've spent too much, on EVERYTHING. Or that whatever we've bought is substandard. Or we need to fix this, need to fix that, even our coffee isn't good enough.

Everything is negative and it really does my head in! I just grin and bare it though.

Buy a small, cheap, wall mounted cupboard and fill it with marbles. Close door firmly and mount it on the wall. Let's see him get out of that one when he opens the blasted thing and all the marbles fall out

Both my PIL do this. Any post around they will look through. They'll sit and read a catalog cover to cover. Once came back from the shower and MIL was reading DD's red book, which obviously has medical info of mine in. They also pick up any object, and will come to find me to ask where they should put it - back where you found it, why have you taken it on a tour of the flat?

It all comes with the advice that everything is too expensive and DD has too much stuff, when actually a lot of it is from when I was little. 'Oh aren't you just spoiled, don't you just have everything' was said to DD when she was 3 months because I bought her a bouncy chair so I could put her down while I went to the loo.

Sounds like my dad. He was always rooting through my bathroom cabinet so I filled it with ovulation kit and pregnancy tests and the like. I told him quite firmly to stop reading my letters and personal admin, he acted all outraged and tried to deflect on me but he did stop eventually.