MIL took down all my Halloween decorations 😒😒

[Orchid90]

Just that .
We went out, invited her to come out too , she refused .
Got home and she took down all
the decorations, which I wanted to keep up a bit longer as it’s my house and I like them!
I know , there are bigger problems in the world , but I’m annoyed and had to tell someone .
I would never clear up anyone’s house without their permission .
she made it clear she didn’t like them and I guess they triggered her OCD .
I am gonna have a very very dark gothic Xmas this year, I always wanted a black tree anyway.

I dislike Halloween intensely. However I just wouldn't have gone to a house that was celebrating Halloween so the situation wouldn't have arisen. She shouldn't have taken them down but it's over anyway so forget it now. Next year, don't have her over on that day.

YANBU

If it helps, both times I was in hospital giving birth to my daughters, MIL let herself in and rearranged the furniture in my living room. DD1 is now 18 but it still grates on me.

This. With knobs on

I hope you put them back up again while she was still there?

What was she doing in your house in the first place?

Don't invite her again, she's nuts.

But surely you understand everyone's illness presents differently.

Yes of course I do, which is why you remove yourself from a situation rather than sitting there an letting it take over.

But we don't know why mil is there as op has vanished she may have had no choice. Babysitting, pet sitting, lives 100 miles away.

OP says she was invited out and refused. She chose to stay in the house.

It’s November. Yabu

But we don't know why she was there as op has posted then vanished.

Eh? What did you do? I hope it was a/ ask WTF are you doing?, and b/ put them all back. Does she routinely do stuff like that? There’s no way I’d put up with that. CF.

God that's ridiculous, I'd have been very annoyed too! I did mention taking ours down today as Halloween has gone 😆, but DDs asked to leave them til Monday so they're staying up (they have inset day so we can do it then).

So cheeky to do that in someone else's house

That really rude, you don’t clean up other peoples houses, fine wash up your own cup and wipe the side if you use it but removing decorations without asking is rude.

I would absolutely be having a black gothic Christmas just to piss her off.

Was she trying to be helpful in a misguided kind of way?

That would have been my assumption. Since Halloween is over she was maybe trying to be helpful. This is why context always helps.

Yabu if you didn't say anything...
Put your Xmas tree up tomorrow...
And vow never to leave her Home Alone. She isn't to be trusted...

Maybe she decided 'there isn't room for more than one old bat in this house'.

I keep my halloween stuff up until Thanksgiving. Brit living in the Uk.

MiL made it clear she did not like the decos....

I would assume she was saving you a job as Halloween was the previous day but I know not everyone feels that way. I have friends who leave birthday cards up for a week which seems mad to me. I put them up on the day and then bin them the following day.

Pumpkins are satanic?

A VEGETABLE IS SATANIC???

She is not diagnosed, just likes things ultra tidy and anything out if place or not where she would have it annoys her . Like the things I have on the fridge , she

This, how absolutely rude and entitled of her! Having a diagnosis of anything doesn't make her behaviour acceptable.

Came to visit for half term and didn’t want to come out with us, likes to stay indoor and not walk much .