MIL has stolen my shoes!

[ratherbeshowjumping]

This is not a joke...!

Historically I've had a very difficult relationship with Satan my MIL. DH pops his head in once a week on his way home from work but we otherwise have little to do with the witch. We get on OK when we do see her.

Last week I had to work away and she did massively help us out by popping in and checking on the puppy.... and since then I cannot find my very, very naice pair of wellies that my lovely DM treated me to.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, DH went in to say hi yesterday eve and my wellies were there, neat by my backdoor. He immediately said "are they showjumpers wellies?", she laughed and said "no, of course they're not." DH then said "oh showjumper has lost hers, exactly the same."
She then laughed and commented how absentminded I am!!

(I am but that's not the point!)

With risk of sounding awful, I do not think she would be familiar with the brand and even if she was, she would have the money to spend £300+ on a pair of wellies.

WWYD? All suggestions appreciated

Don't be embarrassed about the cost of your boots rather, after all they are tools of your trade as much as anything else.

After all - "No foot, no horse"

Perhaps she's a but unhappy if she knows she is referred to as 'The Witch', although you 'get on all right when you see her' and she is 'massively helpful'. No excuse for her pinching your wellies but perhaps DH could ask her where she bought hers and see if he can trip her up and make her admit it. It just seems odd that she has left them on show if she pinched them! Is there any possible chance that, having liked yours, she bought herself some? Have you really searched for yours (don't know if you have a massive house/garden etc.)

@ratherbeshowjumping - the come a few inches below the back of my knee - If I wear them under jeans, they are fine for riding, but it depends on how short you ride. Taking into account your name, I guess you ride fairly short, in which case they should be fine. I used to wear them working in before competitions as well before changing into my show stuff. It is nice to have boots that look good when you are at shows that are also waterproof, protect your toes better than most and that you can ride in. But as I said, if you have short panels on your saddle, then you may find they catch on them.

it depends on how short you ride

?????

(non-equestrian here)

lol - if you do dressage you ride with long stirrups (i.e. your leg is stretched as far as possible). If you show jump you ride with shorter stirrups to help balance you over fences, if you do flat racing you ride with very short stirrups to keep of the horses' backs to enable them to run faster :)

*off

@m00rfarm the name is a giveaway! Yes I do ride fairly short.

I'm going to order a pair this evening 🙈

Aaah! Thank you m00rfarm

I learn something new every day on here.

@ratherbeshowjumping - I do hope you like them :) You can never have too many pairs of boots ...

DD worked at a stables every Saturday for about 9 hours for many years. She started off with cheap crappy wellies and very soon had some nasty blisters, aching insteps and a pain in her achilles. Then we got some slightly more expensive ones and they were less uncomfortable but split quite soon. The her gp bought her posh ones for Christmas and that did the trick. They are working boots and they have to be built to last and not cripple you.

Would some of the shocked non-welly wearers balk at the cost for a pair of designer heels which less face it could not stand up to mud, horses hooves and endless puddles and are therefore perfectly useless?

Oh oh oh I have something completely new and terribly important about the fall out of my mouth....

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£300 for wellies?!
Why on earth did you force your poor benighted mother down to your local high street to buy some crazy blinged up booties?
You do know that wellies are just roughly molded rubber are they just aren’t worth it?!

Ahem
Sorry. Irrestible.

To those who are massively shocked at £300 for a pair of wellies (which the OP wears every single day)...

I once spend £450 on a pair of jimmy choos which I have worn once! I’d have been far better off buying some wellies...

The cheering thing about this thread is that the op’s DH is on her side and is not cowed by his DM’s BS.

I bought Dubarry for OH 20 years ago £130 in a sale, he still wears them every winter for walking the dogs. Money well spent imo.

In the newspaper now.

www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/732902/Mumsnet-AIBU-family-problems-stealing-boots-wellies-mum-in-law-woman

Bloody red tops. "Journalists" can't actually find anything newsworthy

Ooh, I wonder if Mil has been chortling to her friends about nicking showjumping’s boots? I wonder if they read the papers?

Thank you for the link *welshmist"

OP - if the wellies pictured in the link are yours, that your DM paid £300 for - She Wuz Robbed!

Oops and the Sun

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/7370615/outraged-mum-reveals-her-mother-in-law-stole-her-300-bootsbut-what-should-she-do/

Uh oh! A celebrity thief now it seems...

Perhaps one of the channels could make a show of it - Great British Nick Off! or similar?

Omg!!!!!!!!!
Ffs hope no one finds out.
It's quite an outing story

Ask for the thread to be deleted

Hardly surprising it's in the tabloids OP.

Oops.

You didn’t say what colour they were just to be extra, super outing