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AIBU?

To go NC with FIL over glittergate (light hearted)

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JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 11:00

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?!

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FooFighter99 · 22/01/2018 11:01

Make his pay for a cleaner.

Then go NC Grin

GlorianaBanana · 22/01/2018 11:01

Surely you post his next birthday card and fill it with glitter and tiny sequins and claim it was the Dcs idea Wink

FooFighter99 · 22/01/2018 11:02

*Him (dammit)

isawahatonce · 22/01/2018 11:03

Gloriana has the right idea

StorminaBcup · 22/01/2018 11:03

I’d repay them with a visit from your dc and tonne of magic for their house.

Notasperfectasallothermners · 22/01/2018 11:03

Buy mil some pj's from Primark for maybe Mother's day - I got some for Christmas, all sparkly and shiney.
Dh had a penis to be proud of - all sparkly and shiney too!!
Like a light sabre in fact!!
My bedding looks like a Christmas bloody wonderland!

Evelynismyformerspyname · 22/01/2018 11:05

I have never minded mess and always been happy for the kids to paint and glue and not carried about muddy or sandy children coming into the house, but I hate glitter! There is something freaky about the way it hangs about for years no matter how often you've cleaned it up, and how it spreads. I think glitter is actually a virus...

YANBU - definitely fill fil's shoes and coat pockets next birthday card with glitter.

Evelynismyformerspyname · 22/01/2018 11:08

DD actually set off an airport security scanner due to glitter once - she was using a Hand lunggage bag in which a glitter explosion had previously occurred and been forgotten about, and had a thin covering of metallic glitter on everything she'd touched after fishing about in the bag for things.

NataliaOsipova · 22/01/2018 11:11

Surely you post his next birthday card and fill it with glitter and tiny sequins and claim it was the Dcs idea wink

You have to do this. After all, he likes it so much.....

JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 11:44

TMI, I know, but I just blew my nose and glitter came out.

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JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 11:45

I couldn't glitter bomb them. MIL does all the housework and I'm certain she wouldn't have encouraged this kind of craziness.

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FucksBizz · 22/01/2018 11:50

Log in with 101, of course! Grin

JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 11:53

I guess tha

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JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 11:53

I suppose that way my future actions could at least be justified as self defense.

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user1493413286 · 22/01/2018 11:55

Wow, do the same at his house? Give DS some glitter and let him do what he wants?

PositivelyPERF · 22/01/2018 11:58

I found tiny bits of glitter when I was laying the new Lino, last week. I’m a grinch and don’t/have ever allowed glitter through the door. I’ve been in this house for over 25yrs! Where the fuck did it come from? 😕

Sarahjconnor · 22/01/2018 12:05

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WildRosesGrow · 22/01/2018 12:07

Am I the only one feeling a bit warm and smiley about a grown man happily throwing sparkles around with his grandson?

Sorry about the mess though, it took months of cleaning to sort out my daughter's room after she make winter come to her doll's house by covering it with sparkly talc. It did look festive though!

Blackteadrinker77 · 22/01/2018 12:08

Glitter is the spawn of the devil.

I suggest cleansing the planet of this man, going nc with him is too good.

FucksBizz · 22/01/2018 12:09

Am I the only one feeling a bit warm and smiley about a grown man happily throwing sparkles around with his grandson?

No, I am too. Lovely. As long as it's not in my house Grin

JJPP123 · 22/01/2018 12:11

Ha, he is a lovely grandad but they could have at least done it on the hardfloors. It's embedded in the carpet.

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TinklyLittleLaugh · 22/01/2018 12:15

I'd feel warmer and smilier if the grown man had hovered up after himself. Apparently he doesn't even do that in his own house.

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Megs4x3 · 22/01/2018 12:17

Glittery snot? You must have been a unicorn in a previous life! Sorry to hear about the glitter in the carpet though, but seeing as he's a lovely Grandad, perhaps you could banish him to Fairyland for a day or two.

FairfaxAikman · 22/01/2018 12:18

It ain't known as craft herpes for nothing. You're never getting rid of it all OP.

Evelynismyformerspyname · 22/01/2018 12:18

Yes exactly - it's the easiest thing in the world to embrace your inner child if you take it to the logical conclusion and embrace a childlike lack of responsibility for your actions and leave "a mummy" to clean up after you.

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