Crazy things your parents/in laws do/have in their house.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom refuses to buy trash bags. Your only choice is the little bags from the grocery store. I'm one five kids so the last time everyone was up I bought garbage bags. She blew her lid and said I disrupting her system. Holy crap we had fourteen people at the house.

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This, too! WTH?

Oh yea, this one too with DM (dear mom).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom refuses to throw any of her old clothes and shoes out for sentimental reasons. She keeps thinking I'll take it and wear it and forcing it on me, which is ridiculous because she was a size 000 at most (She weighed less than 95 pounds in her twenties).

My mom keeps the clothes I used to wear when I lived there. I'll go visit and recognize a sweater I used to have in high school.

Clean them and sell them on eBay.

Unless its vintage Dior or Chanel, nobody wants to buy a bunch of old clothes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom refuses to throw any of her old clothes and shoes out for sentimental reasons. She keeps thinking I'll take it and wear it and forcing it on me, which is ridiculous because she was a size 000 at most (She weighed less than 95 pounds in her twenties).

My mom keeps the clothes I used to wear when I lived there. I'll go visit and recognize a sweater I used to have in high school.

Clean them and sell them on eBay.

Unless its vintage Dior or Chanel, nobody wants to buy a bunch of old clothes.

You'd be surprised - go and look at eBay these days. Clothes today are crap (thanks millenials) so there's a market for vintage. Not crap but well made, lightly used or new old stuff.

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Unplug their microwave, stove tops and TV components, etc after each use in order to save on their electricity bill. Those costly digital clocks!

Really fun re-heating your kids food or a coffee quickly. Or turning on the TV...

BTW, they have at least $1M saved for retirement, just frugal as all get-up. THeir house is cold and dark - lighting is costly too you know!

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FIL has steadily gained weight since retirement - probably 30+ lbs over 5 years. Yet he is OBSESSED with jeans - probably has over 100 pairs stacked to the ceiling in the garages of both their houses. There is no way any of these jeans fit or ever will again. Plus he lives in FL where it's way too hot for jeans most of the time anyway.

He also sits on the couch without a shirt on and uses a disgusting back scratching contraption that results in bits of skin anywhere.

Oh and he wears headphones attached to a boom box thing while sitting right next to it when he's in the room alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FIL has steadily gained weight since retirement - probably 30+ lbs over 5 years. Yet he is OBSESSED with jeans - probably has over 100 pairs stacked to the ceiling in the garages of both their houses. There is no way any of these jeans fit or ever will again. Plus he lives in FL where it's way too hot for jeans most of the time anyway.

He also sits on the couch without a shirt on and uses a disgusting back scratching contraption that results in bits of skin anywhere.

Oh and he wears headphones attached to a boom box thing while sitting right next to it when he's in the room alone.

*everywhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom refuses to buy trash bags. Your only choice is the little bags from the grocery store. I'm one five kids so the last time everyone was up I bought garbage bags. She blew her lid and said I disrupting her system. Holy crap we had fourteen people at the house.

+1

This, too! WTH?

Omg. My mil is like this and all the big family events are at her house. I never know what to do when I have trash that will obviously not fit, because I cannot find the back up bags.

She also apparently has thrown out most of her silverware. my family if 3 is often asked to share one knife. I fear the day we have to share a fork.

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This thread is hilarious. My in laws also have the silverware problem. They are multi millionaires but refuse to replace their flatware. So if people come over, they get out the silver which has to be all hand washed. So then I'm stuck managing my two kids while hand washing silver instead of being able to use a dishwasher...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom refuses to throw any of her old clothes and shoes out for sentimental reasons. She keeps thinking I'll take it and wear it and forcing it on me, which is ridiculous because she was a size 000 at most (She weighed less than 95 pounds in her twenties).

My mom keeps the clothes I used to wear when I lived there. I'll go visit and recognize a sweater I used to have in high school.

Clean them and sell them on eBay.

But then what would she wear? She doesn't go shopping for clothes anymore.

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There is some mother/MIL forum in which I'm being trashed (well, maybe by MIL as mother is technophobe) ... but my mom had the same opened package of cream cheese (purchased for me originally) for my visits 6+ months apart, which had me side-eyeing everything else in their fridge going forward. And paregoric in the medicine cabinet.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is hilarious. My in laws also have the silverware problem. They are multi millionaires but refuse to replace their flatware. So if people come over, they get out the silver which has to be all hand washed. So then I'm stuck managing my two kids while hand washing silver instead of being able to use a dishwasher...

You can wash silver in the dishwasher.

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My dad traveled very frequently for his long career. My parents have boxes and boxes of hotel soaps, shampoos, etc. from all these trips (a ton of stuff) piled up. They don't use it though. But they refuse to throw it out, and it's always there in case I ever need to take a shower with dusty little soap bars from the Hilton or Four Seasons circa 1982. They also have all this junk like airplane socks and eyeshades, random room service silverware, etc.

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For my parents and in-laws, it's crazier what they don't have.

My parents don't have a coffee maker -- they did drip coffee before it was cool. "It works just as good"

My in laws don't have salt in the house -- they don't believe in it or butter!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad traveled very frequently for his long career. My parents have boxes and boxes of hotel soaps, shampoos, etc. from all these trips (a ton of stuff) piled up. They don't use it though. But they refuse to throw it out, and it's always there in case I ever need to take a shower with dusty little soap bars from the Hilton or Four Seasons circa 1982. They also have all this junk like airplane socks and eyeshades, random room service silverware, etc.

This is hilarious!

My dh saves up all the hotel toiletries and gives them to my mom who volunteers with an organization that helps the homeless population. You should call their nearest shelter and ask if they could use these items. Maybe your parents would feel better knowing its going to good use (and the shelter can throw away anything too old). But I admit, I take a few of the toiletries here and there to stash in our guest bathroom just in case an overnight guest needs them. I will try not to keep them for decades!