To go NC with FIL over glittergate (light hearted)

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Yesterday FIL came iver to play with DS. He smuggled in glitter, 8 little pots of it, which he and DS seem to have thrown all around DS's bedroom. Apparently it was magic, except despite hoovering for what seems like hours on end it's now all over my house. All over me, all over DH, all over the children and everything we own.
I'm going out of my mind, will this ever end? AIBU to never allow FIL on the premises again?!

craft herpes!

craft herpes 😂

Embrace the glitter! There are few things that cannot be improved by a liberal sprinkling of shiny bits. At any one time I have at least one glittery object in my field of vision. See the shiny! See the sparkle!

So your FIL comes over, spends time with your children, playing, making memories AND being a big part of their lives and you want to go NC because he got some glitter everywhere? The glitter will eventually all be gone OP! Let your children enjoy their grandad and the memories they're making!!!

Buy some cheap glittery wrapping paper and wrap all their gifts in it - I am still finding it around the house having used it for others presents!

I think some people missed the light hearted part of your title

Blimey O'Riley there's been a mass sense of humour loss on MN today!

mumof she's joking about going no contact, as is incredibly obvious from everything she's posted.

It is arseholery to create a mess and leave it for someone else to clean up.

So it turns out that putting ‘lighthearted’ in the thread title still doesn’t convey that the OP is being lighthearted and jokey.

What is left to us?!

I feel your pain. I used to clean a primary school and all of the classes used glitter at some point. The mixed reception and year 1 class only got rid of all the glitter from the carpet when they replaced the carpet!

Then one day we got a new head who hated glitter, as he taught previously mentioned class 2.5 days a week glitter never got used, and he 'discouraged' its use in the other two classes. Bliss.

YANU to never let FIL within 'glitter blowing distance' of your house again.
YABU to not let DH clean it up - his dad, his problem.
YWNBU to pay for your MIL to go on holiday for a month and glitter bomb their house at the beginning of said holiday, gives FIL a month to clean it before she returns.

We had glitter gate at home too.

Someone was complaining of glitter in the showers at his work. 20miles away. THAT is how far it travels.

On my dm’s 60th we filled her coat pockets with glittery number 60’s. She’s now nearly 70, still wears the coat and finds at least one shiny 60 in the pocket everytime she wears it. Glitter is weird stuff that can never be truly got rid of, just moved to increasingly irritating places.

We had a relative who used to send us cards with glitter in them when we were kids. I'm 29 next birthday and my mum still makes me open cards from this relative over the bin.... 'just in case'. Really puts a dampner on your birthday opening your cards in the utility room

YWNBU to go NC.

As far as your house goes, I'm afraid you are just going to have to nuke it from orbit. Although I'm not sure even that will completely get rid of the glitter.

Glitter is quite possibly the worst substance known to man.

The Christmas before last I used wrapping paper with red and green glitter on it. I can still see bits of it in the dining room, all over the heat resistant cover for the dining table and both DS and DD asked this year if I would be sure not to use glittery paper again as they are still finding the red and green glitter everywhere

Yes I am with glitterbomb the fucker

Get dh to ask fil to come around and help clear up the glitter as despite your best efforts it's still here - if people are happy to throw glitter around then they should be happy to spend at least three times that amount of time helping to clear it up. Guessing that even if he were to do an hour or two it would still be around forever.

Those sticky roll-y things that you can use for picking up dog hair off furniture and clothes can be good for glitter as it actually sticks the glitter to it to remove at least some of it from the equation... And while I am sure that you will still be finding it when your ds is disappearing off to Uni, maybe for now you could make rolling up the glitter a good game with your ds (recapturing the magic and chucking it in the bin doing more spells or whatever it was they did...) They often have the sticky rollers cheap in places like poundland and home bargains - you don't need a really expensive one - just a few that you can use at lots!

My mother bought glittery crackers for Christmas 2016. If you rubbed them over someone’s head they got a glittery shower. Which we absolutely did not do at all. Ever.

This time the crackers had no glitter on...

Ooh glitterbombs

Send DC to his house for the afternoon with a bagful of magic! Then go NC.
My DD informed me that glitter is apparently going to be banned by 2020, so just stay NC until then!

I spilled edible glitter spray in the kitchen once. Even though it’s all tiled/work tops it took around 3 weeks before the place was no longer coated in a thin silver film.

The roller suggestion was genius. His bed and teddies are (For now) glitter free.

The baby has a rather glittery cheek, apparently boobs were not as glitter free as I'd thought.

DH has been doing his share but this was more than a one person job. We gave up yesterday and if I wait for his return the bloody stuff will only spread further.

I'm considering replacing the carpet and the FIL

charming that gf wants to play "magic"with small one.
infestation of glitter not so much
we moved all glitergeddons to back of garden
didnt stop all from getting in house(shoes left at door)
but def made a difference

I like Gloriana's idea. After all,if he likes the stuff so much,he won't object? Personally I think glitter is the invention of the devil. The sooner the stuff is banned,the better.