Slightly Irritating Things Your In-Laws Do

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This reminds me of my mom (so my SIL's MIL). SIL and my brother brother eat a very clean diet and their kids only eat healthy, whole foods (non-processed), no meat and no sugar. The kids are very healthy, active and in the normal range of size. My mom is constantly saying, "Wow Larlo and Larla are just so healthy given their diet." It's like she thinks they should be emaciated sticks instead of healthy kids since they aren't getting twinkies or something. I'm sure it drives my SIL absolutely crazy. I finally called her out on behalf of them so hopefully she will cool it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of my mom (so my SIL's MIL). SIL and my brother brother eat a very clean diet and their kids only eat healthy, whole foods (non-processed), no meat and no sugar. The kids are very healthy, active and in the normal range of size. My mom is constantly saying, "Wow Larlo and Larla are just so healthy given their diet." It's like she thinks they should be emaciated sticks instead of healthy kids since they aren't getting twinkies or something. I'm sure it drives my SIL absolutely crazy. I finally called her out on behalf of them so hopefully she will cool it.

It’s more likely your SIL doesn’t care. They probably just laugh about it after the visits.

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Anonymous wrote:We repeatedly ask MIL/FIL to buy one size bigger clothes, but they never listen. Most often MIL/SIL buy current size clothes for our son, and not one size bigger. We, the parents, already have a stock of current size clothes from last year/friends/my family/our own purchase. So, MIL/FIL purchases usually last only few months and gone. What they buy usually are hard-to-get one time deal clothes, so I want one size bigger to extend the lifetime of the clothes (not much photo op with a current size).

I complained and my mom says "it is the fun for a grandparents to shop for grand kids (understand that) and most often we want to see that clothes on the grand kids in current season." WE GAVE UP.

Sheesh. This thread is ridiculous and mean spirited and this post is a prime example.

Just graciously accept the clothes. Use them while you can, or otherwise just donate them new with tags still on. Someone will use them. Really not a big deal.

Your in laws must be really great people if this is your main beef with them.

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Anonymous wrote:We repeatedly ask MIL/FIL to buy one size bigger clothes, but they never listen. Most often MIL/SIL buy current size clothes for our son, and not one size bigger. We, the parents, already have a stock of current size clothes from last year/friends/my family/our own purchase. So, MIL/FIL purchases usually last only few months and gone. What they buy usually are hard-to-get one time deal clothes, so I want one size bigger to extend the lifetime of the clothes (not much photo op with a current size).

I complained and my mom says "it is the fun for a grandparents to shop for grand kids (understand that) and most often we want to see that clothes on the grand kids in current season." WE GAVE UP.

Sheesh. This thread is ridiculous and mean spirited and this post is a prime example.

Just graciously accept the clothes. Use them while you can, or otherwise just donate them new with tags still on. Someone will use them. Really not a big deal.

Your in laws must be really great people if this is your main beef with them.

Well, the thread is for the "slightly irritating things your in-laws do", so yea, pp was right on-topic.

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For some reason, my ILs have both a Keurig and a regular coffee machine. So every time someone wants a cup of coffee, there is an endless debate about whether they should do the Keurig or make a pot. It drives me batty.

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My Father in law describes his home as “the vacation house” and gets really upset if we take a vacation anywhere else.

He constantly says that kids these days are “too safe” and gives my children gifts like a cordless drill or a real saw. They are 3 and 5.

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MIL pulls random "facts" straight out of her a--.

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Too broke to pay for badly needed home maintenance but will travel overseas to go birdwatching at the drop of a hat. Oh wait, that's MY mom, not my MIL.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, how original, op. Yet another negative thread about inlaws.

It's intended to be in fun - about people's annoying little foibles. If you don't like it, don't click.

It's fun to make fun of people?

Yes, yes it is.

[Anonymous]

Every time my MIL sees one of my young children eating a vegetable she will loudly say “Oh! She eats that?!” “Oh, she drinks water instead of only JUICE or KOOL-AIDE?!”. You can pretty much see the wheels turning in DC’s head like it’s an option. She will say dumb stuff in front of the kid like “can see climb over the gate/baby crib?” And DC will immediately try to do her suggestion. Common sense lady! It’s exhuasting.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL knows I take an XL in t-shirts and then buys me t-shirts that she knows are too small and says "Well, I thought about getting women's women's XL, but then again you couldn't be that big, so I got a medium. I guess I can return it. Or wear it myself because I am so much smaller."

Omg this is so awful!

My mil also did this. I am 5' 9". She is 5' 1" and tiny. She was upset that I wouldn't wear her wedding dress. Every Christmas she would give me size small clothes no matter what while going on about not being comfortable with people who are big. She wanted all her children to be small and to stay small. Yes, there was a lot to unpack with this woman.

My MIL is the opposite! I'm 5'3" and hover around 110-115 lbs. She's an inch shorter but about 50 lbs heavier. All the clothes she buys me are size M or L and each time she acts stunned that it doesn't fit because she "tried it on and it fit perfectly" Lady, I don't know what you see in the mirror, but we're not the same size!

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Anonymous wrote:They're really picky eaters, like I can count on my fingers the foods they want to eat. And they want very specific brands of food -- only this brand of salad dressing, this kind of ketchup. Worse, my FIL likes one thing, but my MIL doesn't so they expect two separate meals to be cooked for dinner. True, we don't have to accommodate their pickiness, but we've been trained to be good hosts, and when your 80 yo MIL who's not a great driver says she's just going to drive to the store to get some food in a neighborhood she's not familiar with, we just give in and get her the damn food. Having them over for dinner is always a big production.

Mine literally only eat meat that is the done-ness of a brick and gag in horror when they see other people eating meat with any pink in it, etc. They also don't like food to touch and won't eat about a million things. She makes a big show about how she doesn't eat red meat poultry and throws away all the red meat in her thanksgiving turkey.

But really, it's MIL saying ewww and wrinkling up her nose at everything that bothers me. What are you, 6 years old? Can't other people eat their food in peace? She also asks for a million substitutions or removals when she's out.

Did I write this? I've got all the same stuff going on. My MIL mainly only likes chicken and incredibly over cooked pork chops. You can barely cut into those things they are SO dry and horrid, even smothered in sauce. But even though she only eat chicken (mainly) my FIL won't eat any meat that has a bone in it. So we can't get rotisserie chicken for take out, for example. If we finally figure out a place to get take out (say we've all finally agreed to just get pizza) my MIL (who doesn't eat pizza) will need to review the menu and then ask what everyone is getting. We are getting pizza lady! Then she needs to order something else, fine. But she acts like we're nuts for not getting a bunch on entrees AND pizza. Then when the food shows up she's acts all crazy and thinks there's "way too much food here!". NO SHIT.

When the conversations start about what to eat or where, I leave the room and drive her crazy by saying "I will eat anywhere". She has huge lists of foods she doesn't eat, yet is overweight. It boggles the mind.

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being Obnoxious about taking pictures. For some reason, we need to take pictures for each phone and tablet! Then there's SIL who loves selfies!

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Anonymous wrote:She's the one who had a 50 person grandma shower fot herself when DS was born. I, the baby's child, wasn't invited. Neither was anyone in my family.

She's hoarding the grandma shower stuff in her guest bedroom.

My mil did this as well. She expected to have my twin premature infants there without dh or me. They had medical issues and round the clock medicines and had just been released from the nicu. One had been in for two months. She wasn't honest with her friends that it was a grandma shower and she received gifts meant for us. She had a nursery for our children that put ours to shame. Our children did not attend and she threw a fit. She was so angry she refused to ask or even be interested in our children. We continued to be nice and try to engage her for a few years and gave up. We have no relationship with her.

You win. Just out of this world, trully.

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Anonymous wrote:My Father in law describes his home as “the vacation house” and gets really upset if we take a vacation anywhere else.

He constantly says that kids these days are “too safe” and gives my children gifts like a cordless drill or a real saw. They are 3 and 5.

This is not slightly irritating, this is obnoxious. Anyone who gave my 3 year old a real saw to play with would never be unsupervised with my kids EVER.