Here come the holidays! And the nosy ILs!

[Anonymous]

If you have nosy ILs, what do you do to deflect when you are hosting them for the holidays? I really don't want to find them going through my closets again. I wish I was making this up. Maybe someone out there has ILs from the same.......hatchery.......please help.

[Anonymous]

Nanny cam, then post the vids on FB and tag them in it. This is assuming a nosy MIL is on FB, and aren't they all?

[Anonymous]

Nanny cam and then sit down with her/them to watch the tapes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny cam and then sit down with her/them to watch the tapes.

Like they'd care. Their specialty is making things awkward. OP here.

[Anonymous]

Lock your bedroom.

[Anonymous]

I really don't mind people going through my things, but you can do like my mother does with her nosy sister, and hide sensitive information or lock it up.

Also, calling them out on it in a joking kind of way in front of everybody may stop them...
"Dear MIL has just gone through my clothes again - too bad we can never be the same size!"
"Let me reassure you, MIL, I do stock up on toilet paper when you come, no need to check."
"Looking for something? Our estate papers are not in here, unfortunately. Here's DH's colonoscopy results, if you're interested."

[Anonymous]

Get little alarms. They must sell things like that for baby proofing. And locks. I wouldn't care about looking through clothes or things, but papers and other personal things-absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Have them stay at a hotel. And meet up with them outside of your home.

[Anonymous]

If it were me, I'd go order or borrow or take out some freaky sex stuff that is so obvious and put it right there at the front of the closet. But that's me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it were me, I'd go order or borrow or take out some freaky sex stuff that is so obvious and put it right there at the front of the closet. But that's me.

Ha! But ew don't borrow it !!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get little alarms. They must sell things like that for baby proofing. And locks. I wouldn't care about looking through clothes or things, but papers and other personal things-absolutely.

Locks, I agree.

[Anonymous]

How about signs you post that say things like, "mil, what are you looking for?" "Why are you in my medicine cabinet?"

[Anonymous]

Don't host.

[Anonymous]

You fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. It might work with closets too, maybe some tin cans all tied together to the door?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. It might work with closets too, maybe some tin cans all tied together to the door?

Lol this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!