Petty In-Law and/or house guest vents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just a no-stakes place to let off steam. Vent away! It helps you react appropriately IRL.

Somehow, I doubt many of these posters act properly in real life.

[Anonymous]

My MIL always takes off full rolls of toilet paper in our house and turns them around so that they pull from the bottom instead of the top. It's not even that she replaces an empty one to pull the other way -- she turns them around when there is no reason to disturb them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

I'll join you on this one. MIL does this at her house, but she's recently been visiting more often due to our new baby and sat on the couch with her bare feet bent along side of her. She then proceeded to touch her feet (seemingly not conscious of it--hoping, at least as that is gross). I kept DC away from her the rest of the visit, but was prepared to ask her to rewash her hands if she wanted to hold the baby again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate it when people (my in-laws) put bags, like handbags or backpacks, on furniture. I know you had that on the floor of the bathroom at the airport and now it's on my new;y upholstered chair? Who doesn't put a bag on the floor (or a chair without fabric)? Does this make me crazy?

I have NEVER in my life put my bag down on the floor in public. Not on a restroom floor, not on mass transit, not at work, not anywhere. On the occasion I wind up in a public bathroom that doesn't have a hook on the back of the door to hang my purse, I awkwardly hold it, or if the strap is long enough, I've hung it around my neck. Now that I think about it I don't even put my purse on the floor in my home. It either goes on the bench by the front door, hung on the railing, or on the top shelf in my closet.

I can't even imagine what kind of gross person would put her purse on a public restroom floor...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

I'll join you on this one. MIL does this at her house, but she's recently been visiting more often due to our new baby and sat on the couch with her bare feet bent along side of her. She then proceeded to touch her feet (seemingly not conscious of it--hoping, at least as that is gross). I kept DC away from her the rest of the visit, but was prepared to ask her to rewash her hands if she wanted to hold the baby again.

I'm pretty anal retentive, but some of you people are just plain nuts. Trust me, your little snowflake will survive. I hope you understand that you are alienating your MIL for a really petty reason. If she is kind to you, your husband, and your children, then you should count your blessings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate it when people (my in-laws) put bags, like handbags or backpacks, on furniture. I know you had that on the floor of the bathroom at the airport and now it's on my new;y upholstered chair? Who doesn't put a bag on the floor (or a chair without fabric)? Does this make me crazy?

I have NEVER in my life put my bag down on the floor in public. Not on a restroom floor, not on mass transit, not at work, not anywhere. On the occasion I wind up in a public bathroom that doesn't have a hook on the back of the door to hang my purse, I awkwardly hold it, or if the strap is long enough, I've hung it around my neck. Now that I think about it I don't even put my purse on the floor in my home. It either goes on the bench by the front door, hung on the railing, or on the top shelf in my closet.

Sometimes when my husband has just returned from a work trip, I'll go into our bedroom to find that he has placed his small rolling suitcase on the made bed to unpack it. GROSS It is a foul thing that has been in foul places: metro, taxi, airport, airport men's rooms, city streets. YUCK, on my BED

[Anonymous]

My FIL brought some pastries in for breakfast, and proceeded to cut them up. He held them with his left hand and cut them with his right hand. At least 3 times during the process, he licked the fingers of his left hand and then continued holding the pastry steady with that hand. I was disgusted and could not eat a bite of the pastries. So of course he was offended. I wanted to tell him I didn't want a saliva glaze on my bearclaw. But then he would have been REALLY offended.

[Anonymous]

I hated when my MIL was in town "helping out" after I had dc 2. She asked me to tell her how to do my laundry then criticized how I did it. (I don't put fabric softeners on my towels because it will ruin them.)

She also refused to help with my 2 year old so I ended up having to pick him up and put him down for naps. I had a c-section! I was lifting my 2 year old because she wouldn't, hours after returning home from the hospital. Uh, thanks for the help! I would rather clean and do laundry than lift my kid after a c-section.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hated when my MIL was in town "helping out" after I had dc 2. She asked me to tell her how to do my laundry then criticized how I did it. (I don't put fabric softeners on my towels because it will ruin them.)

She also refused to help with my 2 year old so I ended up having to pick him up and put him down for naps. I had a c-section! I was lifting my 2 year old because she wouldn't, hours after returning home from the hospital. Uh, thanks for the help! I would rather clean and do laundry than lift my kid after a c-section.

FYI fabric softener won't ruin them. It may temporarily slightly reduce absorbency. But it will wash out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

I'll join you on this one. MIL does this at her house, but she's recently been visiting more often due to our new baby and sat on the couch with her bare feet bent along side of her. She then proceeded to touch her feet (seemingly not conscious of it--hoping, at least as that is gross). I kept DC away from her the rest of the visit, but was prepared to ask her to rewash her hands if she wanted to hold the baby again.

I'm pretty anal retentive, but some of you people are just plain nuts. Trust me, your little snowflake will survive. I hope you understand that you are alienating your MIL for a really petty reason. If she is kind to you, your husband, and your children, then you should count your blessings.

+1 I can't believe some of these posts on here.. Especially the feet touching one. Makes me dread becoming a MIL someday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

I'll join you on this one. MIL does this at her house, but she's recently been visiting more often due to our new baby and sat on the couch with her bare feet bent along side of her. She then proceeded to touch her feet (seemingly not conscious of it--hoping, at least as that is gross). I kept DC away from her the rest of the visit, but was prepared to ask her to rewash her hands if she wanted to hold the baby again.

I'm pretty anal retentive, but some of you people are just plain nuts. Trust me, your little snowflake will survive. I hope you understand that you are alienating your MIL for a really petty reason. If she is kind to you, your husband, and your children, then you should count your blessings.

+1 I can't believe some of these posts on here.. Especially the feet touching one. Makes me dread becoming a MIL someday.

Stay in a hotel. You'll get points for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids touching my walls. My clean, freshly painted walls.

Suggestion. Cling wrap them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL always takes off full rolls of toilet paper in our house and turns them around so that they pull from the bottom instead of the top. It's not even that she replaces an empty one to pull the other way -- she turns them around when there is no reason to disturb them.

ok that's nuts

[Anonymous]

My ILs leave a trail of crumbs, Splenda crystals, empty wine glasses, and empty coffee cups all over the house. They're like Hansel and Gretel leaving their trail of crumbs through the forest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

Humans. Humans do that. Including me and pretty much everyone I know. The reas question is who doesn't do that.

+1. The better question is who doesn't do that?