What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2024 edition

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MIL puts cooked meat back on raw meat plate.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm new to my husband's family. First time staying at the in-laws. The main bathroom in the hallway does not have a doorknob. This is where I'm to shower and get ready with two other families.

I asked my husband if we could check into a hotel but he said it would hurt his moms feelings.

This was a long time ago but BIL/SIL were once doing home renovations and had no bathroom DOOR (only bathroom in the house) for almost 2yrs. No reason really, they just did not care or consider it a priority apparently. I refused to go over to their house for anything besides “dropping in for an hour” etc. nice people otherwise. And have had a bathroom door ever since they finished their reno. LOL.

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Two story house hosting extended family. TVs both floors. Both on with sound set at level 65+ Each floor seems to try to drown other out. Soooooo loud. Not sure anyone actually watching.

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Anonymous wrote:Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

🤣 can confirm. Grew up in the Midwest and it was not uncommon for the garage to be used this way for large gatherings. Often (even during winter) the drinks and maybe desserts were out there on long tables. Sometimes a plugged in crockpot or two of something. Sometimes even an eating table for any overflow guests or teens. Mostly for crowd control and/or lack of kitchen space. The men often congregated out there also. In the winter they’d set up space heaters.

And in the summer the garage was often the planned location for food and eating altogether. Long tables etc.

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In-laws eat at restaurant and get to-go boxes of their half eaten meals and then put them all on one plate like a big germ buffet. This is not the other half of a burger that didn’t touch or baked potatoe that didn’t touch when first ordered. This is the burger that has bites out of it on multiple edges but middle wasn’t eaten and baked potatoe almost fully scooped out but some of skin left and the like - all put on one plate to be picked through by whole family as if a new meal. So this not eating your own leftovers. They think it’s so funny they I love cereal so much that I eat it for dinner and don’t eat their leftovers, but have done this for so many years that now they don’t really say anything and others marrying in to family have started to join me in my cereal eating.

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Anonymous wrote:In-laws eat at restaurant and get to-go boxes of their half eaten meals and then put them all on one plate like a big germ buffet. This is not the other half of a burger that didn’t touch or baked potatoe that didn’t touch when first ordered. This is the burger that has bites out of it on multiple edges but middle wasn’t eaten and baked potatoe almost fully scooped out but some of skin left and the like - all put on one plate to be picked through by whole family as if a new meal. So this not eating your own leftovers. They think it’s so funny they I love cereal so much that I eat it for dinner and don’t eat their leftovers, but have done this for so many years that now they don’t really say anything and others marrying in to family have started to join me in my cereal eating.

🤮 omg lolol

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Anonymous wrote:In-laws eat at restaurant and get to-go boxes of their half eaten meals and then put them all on one plate like a big germ buffet. This is not the other half of a burger that didn’t touch or baked potatoe that didn’t touch when first ordered. This is the burger that has bites out of it on multiple edges but middle wasn’t eaten and baked potatoe almost fully scooped out but some of skin left and the like - all put on one plate to be picked through by whole family as if a new meal. So this not eating your own leftovers. They think it’s so funny they I love cereal so much that I eat it for dinner and don’t eat their leftovers, but have done this for so many years that now they don’t really say anything and others marrying in to family have started to join me in my cereal eating.

🤮 omg lolol

Oh my god-you win.

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Anonymous wrote:I am hosting my parents for Thanksgiving week and made sure to stock up on their preferred grocery items, etc. But they are very unhappy that we do not have cable so they can’t watch MSNBC at top volume all day long!

My sister comes for the day to my place for Thanksgiving and then both of us stay at my parents’ for Christmas… but as our families have grown, the guest room space there has gotten less comfortable. Because her kids are “bad sleepers” and can’t share rooms, DH and I have ended up on an air mattress in the den with one dc. So it might be time for a hotel!

Say more. Does one of their kids sleep with them? Or do they get their own room, their kids each get their own room, and your family is in the den? Why aren’t THEY in the den?

Each of her kids gets a bedroom and she and her DH get a bedroom. My parents consider her the fragile one and me the “hardy” one. I absolutely love her and my kid is a good sleeper but any attempt to adjust the imbalance has led to pouting and threats from her DH.

WTH? Your sister is horrible. This is absolutely ridiculous and unfair to you and your family. [/quote

I agree. Your sister should put an air mattress and one of her kids in her room. Then there would be an extra bedroom for you and your family.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been a little disappointing i was hoping for some real gossip from someone hiding in the guest bathroom posting crazy crap on here.

My DH's sister and her husband had a full on screaming match just after dinner. Thank god we're local, we said "Ok, time to go, bye!" as they continued to shout about who sucked more. Awkward.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am hosting my parents for Thanksgiving week and made sure to stock up on their preferred grocery items, etc. But they are very unhappy that we do not have cable so they can’t watch MSNBC at top volume all day long!

My sister comes for the day to my place for Thanksgiving and then both of us stay at my parents’ for Christmas… but as our families have grown, the guest room space there has gotten less comfortable. Because her kids are “bad sleepers” and can’t share rooms, DH and I have ended up on an air mattress in the den with one dc. So it might be time for a hotel!

Say more. Does one of their kids sleep with them? Or do they get their own room, their kids each get their own room, and your family is in the den? Why aren’t THEY in the den?

Each of her kids gets a bedroom and she and her DH get a bedroom. My parents consider her the fragile one and me the “hardy” one. I absolutely love her and my kid is a good sleeper but any attempt to adjust the imbalance has led to pouting and threats from her DH.

WTH? Your sister is horrible. This is absolutely ridiculous and unfair to you and your family.

I agree. Your sister should put an air mattress and one of her kids in her room. Then there would be an extra bedroom for you and your family

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Anonymous wrote:In-laws eat at restaurant and get to-go boxes of their half eaten meals and then put them all on one plate like a big germ buffet. This is not the other half of a burger that didn’t touch or baked potatoe that didn’t touch when first ordered. This is the burger that has bites out of it on multiple edges but middle wasn’t eaten and baked potatoe almost fully scooped out but some of skin left and the like - all put on one plate to be picked through by whole family as if a new meal. So this not eating your own leftovers. They think it’s so funny they I love cereal so much that I eat it for dinner and don’t eat their leftovers, but have done this for so many years that now they don’t really say anything and others marrying in to family have started to join me in my cereal eating.

🤮 omg lolol

Oh my god-you win.

Agree! Gnawed-leftover buffet wins! This may become legendary DCUM material!

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Anonymous wrote:My little nephew is “helping” with the pies… interspersed with throwing a slobbery tennis ball for their puppy.

DH won't go near any food that kids have "helped" prepare. Not in people's homes, not at school bake sales, nada. He's completely grossed out by it. I'm less so, but even I don't eat from younger helpers (8 and younger)

I am the same way. I won’t eat any food I think younger kids helped prepare. And especially not buffets or parties with little hands. And I have 4 kids!

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Anonymous wrote:MIL puts cooked meat back on raw meat plate.

As someone with a phobia of raw meat my son crawled reading this. This is a war crime.

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Random gathering of people that started as a few families and then morphed. People died, grew up, some don't get the clue that they need to find their own holiday. Some weird hangers-on, really.

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Anonymous wrote:Random gathering of people that started as a few families and then morphed. People died, grew up, some don't get the clue that they need to find their own holiday. Some weird hangers-on, really.

Oh no! I bet they think of the day fondly and enjoy the tradition, not realizing that you don’t want them. Who are these people to you