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Please, Does Any of This Matter To You? My MIL is so strange.
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Anonymous
Make sure you invite her over on laundry day. Why bother folding it in the first place. 
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Anonymous
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Silverware goes in handle up. Toilet paper (for us at least) rolls over the top.
I agree with the OCD as well. You can send her to my house! I would love to have my sons closet sorted by color! That said, though many here would love to have that in a MIL, when it's your own, it's a different story! |
Anonymous
| Read this to my mom, and she saw nothing wrong with, however, I think nutty/ OCD, too. Is she this way in her house, too? |
Anonymous
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Well. You raise a son, you do your best and some bitch rips him out of your arms and ferries him off into a world where dishwashers are loaded in any slackerly sort of way. OP, I bet you do all sorts of other sloppy things or exclusionary things that shut her out and MIL is just trying to assert some show of respect for at least her way of housekeeping. I dread the day my DS's bring home the spawn of this DCUM crew. Hopefully, my sons will return to the old country to find and marry a beautiful virgin. I spit on the ground at this thread and storm away.
This post is slightly tongue in cheek. But only slightly. |
Anonymous
Well, other than the fact I'm not a slob and we do not exclude her from anything, um, ok... I see you dressed up like a gypsy with coin and crystals handing from your turban
You guys are very funny! I think my MIL is 100% OCD, I try not to let her bother me, I don't think she's doing any of this to bother me personally or because I stole her son from her arms (she still has one at home). Her house is indeed neat and organized, it's just strange that she comes over like it's nothing and will go organize closets and change up toilet paper. @ 11:33, my door was closed! She waltzed right in!! |
Anonymous
| OCD. I would GIVE her something to organize. The TP thing would drive bonkers. |
Anonymous
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I seem to be one of the few people I know who has no preference re the toilet paper. Most people I have talked to about this feel VERY STRONGLY for one way or the other. Me, I'm happy as long as nobody leaves it empty.
As for the dishwasher, I used to be like you with handle down. Now I do handle up but it's only because my pre-schooler likes to help me unload and I don't want her grabbing a steak knife. DH and I used to argue about it though - not for sanitation reasons, but because he hated stabbing his hands on the forks. The other stuff would make me absolutely crazy. |
Anonymous
| I might make it a game. Always put the toilet paper on the different way and see how long it takes her to switch it upon arrival. If she has a sense of humor about it set up a timer and tell her it Only took her five minutes. I would totally kid her about it if she had a sense of humor about it. If she dissent then I'd just let her do it bc honestly she is making things more neat...it's not like she is being rude to your face saying she doesn't like you or you are. Terrible mother so I'd probably deal and kid her about it without going too far. |
Anonymous
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Send her here.
I put handles up in the dishwasher. Easier to grab to take them out. I like my TP with it going over vs. under. |
Anonymous
| If it bothers you, set boundaries OR give her a mammoth organizing projects, as PPs suggested. Going into the MB/bathroom without asking is the only thing that would really, really bother me. Is she aware that she has OCD-ish tendencies? |
Anonymous
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OOOoohhhh, rent her out, OP!!! I'll pay you $20/hour to have her organize MY closets!!!
In one's own house this behavior is OCD, in someone else's it it totally CRAZY. For instance, in my house, TP rolls over teh top, never from underneath. But, gawd, I dont think I even notice how it is positioned in other people's bathrooms! |
Anonymous
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Agree, it sounds kind of OCD.
As to toilet paper, we've had to keep it with the loose end under ever since the cat learned it was fun to run her paws on it and unroll the whole thing onto the floor. If she tries it now, it stays on the roll. Game over. |
Anonymous
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0:05, does that work for 2 year olds too?
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Anonymous
It sure does. I prefer the tp over the top but we are rolling the other way until the 2 yr old gives up on that fun little game. I was also taught to put silverware handle down (except for knives) BUT our handle slip through the holes in the basket so the handle go up now. As for the other stuff, sure it seems like OCD but as long as you know that and don't take it personnally I don't think it is worth worring about. I joke with my MIL about her pantry. She has a HUGE kitchen that I am very jealous of and every time I visit I organize her pantry for her. Last time I found 9 bottles of mustard! We both just laugh and cross it of of the shopping list. My house if far from organized while her house is in much better shape. Just our little quirk. It all started when she told me to look through to see if she had any boxes with those Box tops for education. I go through and cut them off for our school. To each their own
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Anonymous
| She's ridiculous. She's OCD. She is not respecting boundaries. You don't go into someone else's home and do things like that. |