What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2025 Edition

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Anonymous wrote:Here's mine.

We are going to MIL's.

Every time we visit her, I marvel that she still has the foot care product basket we gave her for Christmas in the mid-1990s sitting in the bathroom. It's a mix of squeeze bottle products (a foot scrub, etc.) and a wooden foot roller massager. I wonder if it is being used but I do not ask.

It's decoration only. My mom would do the same thing with the bathroom. She would also put little bowls of candy out as decoration only and be scandalized when the grandkids are them.

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Only here 2 days so can sleep anywhere, but this made me laugh when we arrived. We bought air mattress to sleep on for the office that use as bedroom when visit- has worked great for years. Couple weeks ago told great news! office is now an actual bedroom- put bed in it. Just arrived…. The bed is a day bed from converted crib and they put in a love seat sofa in same room so not enough floor space to use mattress. We'll be doing a quiet run for sleeping bags under guise of getting more ice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all. My MIL has announced she’s divorcing my FIL. Which, he is a terrible person, but he’s always been terrible. Why now? Why at Thanksgiving? He’s spent the day in the garage with his hunting buddies. My DH and his siblings are having a frantic convening in the kitchen. Awkward! I’m staying out of the way with our 18 month old and very glad I put my foot down about staying in a hotel this year. Will update on the craziness.

Oh wow, keep us updated, PP!

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Anonymous wrote:I’d rather have a TV on than having my MIL and FIL sitting on the couch, staring at us, wondering “where Sam disappeared to” when he went to the bathroom, or “Why Larla is hiding from us” when she’s been doing a puzzle with them for an hour, ate breakfast with them for 30 minutes, chatted for 30 minutes and now needs a break in her room to read or text with friends for a bit.

Don't you love this line?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only here 2 days so can sleep anywhere, but this made me laugh when we arrived. We bought air mattress to sleep on for the office that use as bedroom when visit- has worked great for years. Couple weeks ago told great news! office is now an actual bedroom- put bed in it. Just arrived…. The bed is a day bed from converted crib and they put in a love seat sofa in same room so not enough floor space to use mattress. We'll be doing a quiet run for sleeping bags under guise of getting more ice!

Is it possible they’re actually trying to discourage guests from sleeping over?

It’s crazy to me that grown adults would go through the subterfuge of sneaking out to buy sleeping bags and spend multiple nights sleeping on the floor rather than just getting a hotel room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all. My MIL has announced she’s divorcing my FIL. Which, he is a terrible person, but he’s always been terrible. Why now? Why at Thanksgiving? He’s spent the day in the garage with his hunting buddies. My DH and his siblings are having a frantic convening in the kitchen. Awkward! I’m staying out of the way with our 18 month old and very glad I put my foot down about staying in a hotel this year. Will update on the craziness.

Wow!

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My parents insisted on hosting, claiming their house is the only one with enough space.

Said they are too old to do all the cooking, and will only make the turkey. That's fine, the 4 adult kids + spouses divided up the side dishes and desserts and we have a plan.

On Monday, parents announced that no one arrive at the house more than 30 minutes before meal time. Drive time for everyone is 1-3 hours, so it's not like we are arriving with hot food. Looking forward to the battle for oven time/space.

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My BIL is here, always the weirdest object in any room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Y’all. My MIL has announced she’s divorcing my FIL. Which, he is a terrible person, but he’s always been terrible. Why now? Why at Thanksgiving? He’s spent the day in the garage with his hunting buddies. My DH and his siblings are having a frantic convening in the kitchen. Awkward! I’m staying out of the way with our 18 month old and very glad I put my foot down about staying in a hotel this year. Will update on the craziness.

Wow!

Keep us updated, OP! (And hoping this is not a troll post!)

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Anonymous wrote:My BIL is here, always the weirdest object in any room.

lol !

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Anonymous wrote:I thought everyone kept the thermostat at 72. That doesn’t seem unreasonable. I turn the fire on when I sitting near it too, it is cheerful.

In November? No. Are you a lizard?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's mine.

We are going to MIL's.

Every time we visit her, I marvel that she still has the foot care product basket we gave her for Christmas in the mid-1990s sitting in the bathroom. It's a mix of squeeze bottle products (a foot scrub, etc.) and a wooden foot roller massager. I wonder if it is being used but I do not ask.

This is really funny!

It's better than crocheted spare toilet roll covers.

As for thermostats, they turn heat on when it's below the setting. So if the house if hot from cooking it's likely not turning the heat on.

That said, we keep house heat on at 71 or 72, cool on at 73 or 74 and have since we bought it. 40 years ago. Money can make us happy lol.

I laughed, but I wonder how many of the younger people here have never seen one. Those creepy-ass plastic doll arms and heads attached to a crocheted giant BALLGOWN to hide the fact from guests that you have — *gasp* — EXTRA TOILET PAPER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL keeps her house at 78 or 79 but also has a space heater in the dining room.

OMG. She actually *is* an iguana in a person suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all. My MIL has announced she’s divorcing my FIL. Which, he is a terrible person, but he’s always been terrible. Why now? Why at Thanksgiving? He’s spent the day in the garage with his hunting buddies. My DH and his siblings are having a frantic convening in the kitchen. Awkward! I’m staying out of the way with our 18 month old and very glad I put my foot down about staying in a hotel this year. Will update on the craziness.

Yiiiiikes. You win (“win?”) the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:The above-stove microwave has been broken for at least a year. The handle has been glued with Krazy Glue and Gorilla Glue, and taped heavily with clear packing tape. The man of the house refuses to believe that yes, it could be replaced, somehow and some way, even though it is an above-stove model, so they aren’t replacing it, just dealing with a broken microwave that you have to handle “just so.”

Yes, we’re staying home this year and hosting. This is my house and my life, and there’s no escape.

I’d have bought one on sale and had it installed.