Crazy things your parents/in laws do/have in their house.

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Anonymous wrote:ILs have 3-400 Hummel and Royal Daulton figurines on display, that they like to hint about leaving to us, and how lucky we'll be.

At least these are worth money WHEN you sell them!! (Not that you tell them that now)

My mom collects stuff. Not the same brand but various different collections. I’ve told her please sell it all and travel with the money or at least make a little book with pictures of those items with value or importance. She thinks the kids (us) want this stuff.

Sadly I can think of two or three little things I’d like for rememberence. The rest will be a big estate sale or it’s going on the dumpster.

Why would I clutter my home with their crap.

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Anonymous wrote:my dad was on a work trip in the middle east and "lived" the ass washing hose in the bathrooms he saw there. he had one installed in every bathroom in my parents ' house. it's a removable shower head on the side of the toilet with hot and cold water.

That actually sounds awesome. I'd like to have something like that, a handheld bidet.

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Omg laughing my head off!!!??I need to recover and then come back to post!!??

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Tried to post emojis but got question marks instead lol oops!

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL isn't a hoarder, but she has the strangest taste. She wallpapered her ceilings, in rooms where the walls were already wallpapered (using contrasting patterns and colors.) There are also some wall-to-wall mirrors in random rooms throughout her house. She also really likes shiny things, and like a magpie she will arrange random glittery objects everywhere. Then she has walls filled with these tribal masks, and she has some random round folding tables and chairs everywhere with gauzy material used as tablecloths, like for a wedding. She lives alone in a 4000 SF house, and hardly ever entertains. Unbelievably, she has hired a "decorator" who comes and rearranges these things for her from time to time, and who brings over new atrocious pieces to add to her collection.

This sounds AWESOME!

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Anonymous wrote:My 80+ year old FIL's house is covered with explicit erotic art. Multiple paintings on every wall in every room. They're very artistic but I'm almost to the point where I feel I'm exposing my DS to porn if I take him there.

My parents built 4 tiny rooms (like 15 sq feet) on a porch to house paying exchange students, as well as "renovating" part of the attic (5ft ceilings and 1 window) for more students. To access the attic "room" you have to walk through another room that they also rent out. Oh and a few more students in the gross basement too.

Not to be a downer on such a great thread, but what your parents are doing sounds borderline illegal.

I don't disagree at all!

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Anonymous wrote:It's 65 degrees in my parents's house even in the winter time.

That's toasty warm. I don't see the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:My in laws house has almost no lights. All the lighting is at least 30 years old and barely works. At night even with every light they have on it always looks like sunset. When you really need to see something it is very annoying...for example when we are visiting and I need to change the baby’s diaper.

LOL, this is my parents! They literally only use nightlight-strength bulbs, and rush around turning them off behind us. They won't allow us to turn regular lights on, so we use our phone flashlight apps to see. They also have only two chairs per room, throughout their big house, because it's mostly just the two of them there. All visitors must stand and mill around. Family gatherings, you're doing a 12-hour shift on your feet.

Mom has knit little booties for all the chair legs, so they don't scratch the floors, and if you try and move a chair they freak out in case a bootie falls off.

They have two refrigerators and a large freezer full of food. They eat like birds. But just in case.

The house is less than 20 years old, but everything is double-sealed shut with masking tape because . . . spiders. Only one door is allowed to be used. Forget windows.

Hope you like mothballs, because they're everywhere, in everything.

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Anonymous wrote:My in laws house has almost no lights. All the lighting is at least 30 years old and barely works. At night even with every light they have on it always looks like sunset. When you really need to see something it is very annoying...for example when we are visiting and I need to change the baby’s diaper.

LOL, this is my parents! They literally only use nightlight-strength bulbs, and rush around turning them off behind us. They won't allow us to turn regular lights on, so we use our phone flashlight apps to see. They also have only two chairs per room, throughout their big house, because it's mostly just the two of them there. All visitors must stand and mill around. Family gatherings, you're doing a 12-hour shift on your feet.

Mom has knit little booties for all the chair legs, so they don't scratch the floors, and if you try and move a chair they freak out in case a bootie falls off.

They have two refrigerators and a large freezer full of food. They eat like birds. But just in case.

The house is less than 20 years old, but everything is double-sealed shut with masking tape because . . . spiders. Only one door is allowed to be used. Forget windows.

Hope you like mothballs, because they're everywhere, in everything.

OMG, why didn't I think of this? I might borrow this.

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Anonymous wrote:My in laws house has almost no lights. All the lighting is at least 30 years old and barely works. At night even with every light they have on it always looks like sunset. When you really need to see something it is very annoying...for example when we are visiting and I need to change the baby’s diaper.

LOL, this is my parents! They literally only use nightlight-strength bulbs, and rush around turning them off behind us. They won't allow us to turn regular lights on, so we use our phone flashlight apps to see. They also have only two chairs per room, throughout their big house, because it's mostly just the two of them there. All visitors must stand and mill around. Family gatherings, you're doing a 12-hour shift on your feet.

Mom has knit little booties for all the chair legs, so they don't scratch the floors, and if you try and move a chair they freak out in case a bootie falls off.

They have two refrigerators and a large freezer full of food. They eat like birds. But just in case.

The house is less than 20 years old, but everything is double-sealed shut with masking tape because . . . spiders. Only one door is allowed to be used. Forget windows.

Hope you like mothballs, because they're everywhere, in everything.

Haha I’m the pp and my in laws have the mothballs everywhere too. They also shut of all the lights that they do have while we are currently in the room using them. Seriously it is the weirdest thing. I guess I could understand if they were concerned about money and using too much electricity but no, they are extremely well off.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My in laws house has almost no lights. All the lighting is at least 30 years old and barely works. At night even with every light they have on it always looks like sunset. When you really need to see something it is very annoying...for example when we are visiting and I need to change the baby’s diaper.

LOL, this is my parents! They literally only use nightlight-strength bulbs, and rush around turning them off behind us. They won't allow us to turn regular lights on, so we use our phone flashlight apps to see. They also have only two chairs per room, throughout their big house, because it's mostly just the two of them there. All visitors must stand and mill around. Family gatherings, you're doing a 12-hour shift on your feet.

Mom has knit little booties for all the chair legs, so they don't scratch the floors, and if you try and move a chair they freak out in case a bootie falls off.

They have two refrigerators and a large freezer full of food. They eat like birds. But just in case.

The house is less than 20 years old, but everything is double-sealed shut with masking tape because . . . spiders. Only one door is allowed to be used. Forget windows.

Hope you like mothballs, because they're everywhere, in everything.

OMG, why didn't I think of this? I might borrow this.

Holy shit, the sell these on amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XB3M6XT/ref=asc_df_B06XB3M6XT5187963/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=395033&creativeASIN=B06XB3M6XT&linkCode=df0&hvadid=216508137554&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=926763037478815432&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061285&hvtargid=pla-350018917128

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Anonymous wrote:What is it with old people and food? Just throw it out. My MIL was an old food hoarder. Sadly my ex inherited that gene.

I don't know, but it's gross when you open a box of crackers or something (at my mom's) and take a bit and... "eww... what's wrong with this?" and then you look at the exp date on the box. By now I'm surprised if something out of her pantry IS NOT past the expiration date. It really irritates me tbh. She also has a ton of medicines like ibuprofen, etc that are expired.

http://www.usmedicine.com/agencies/department-of-defense-dod/dodfda-program-seeks-to-extend-lives-of-expired-medications/

thank you so much for this, really interesting. Now I'm mad about throwing away allergy medicine that was a mere 3 years old.
But the food, throw it out. The oil in these products gets rancid and even if it won't kill you tastes awful.

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My parents bought a house in 1999 that was in disrepair and badly needed updating. They still live there with the only updates made to critical things, like leaking pipes. The upstairs/main living space has no floor, only subfloor, and the subfloor is covered in the remains of animal waste. I refuse to go but I've seen a couple pics and my siblings have gone and it's truly disgusting. They've been "working on" getting a new floor for at least 6 months, if not longer. Their income is sort of limited but they blow it on other stuff (excessive groceries, athletic gear and eating out for my dad, extravagant travel for my mom). And they are terrible at managing money, full stop.

My MIL has closets full of paper work, artifacts and decor from her home country, table cloths, place mats, clothes, hats, coats, etc. She also will routinely eat chicken and fish that's been in the fridge for two weeks; she thinks it's good for her to "make her system run."

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Anonymous wrote:My parents bought a house in 1999 that was in disrepair and badly needed updating. They still live there with the only updates made to critical things, like leaking pipes. The upstairs/main living space has no floor, only subfloor, and the subfloor is covered in the remains of animal waste. I refuse to go but I've seen a couple pics and my siblings have gone and it's truly disgusting. They've been "working on" getting a new floor for at least 6 months, if not longer. Their income is sort of limited but they blow it on other stuff (excessive groceries, athletic gear and eating out for my dad, extravagant travel for my mom). And they are terrible at managing money, full stop.

My MIL has closets full of paper work, artifacts and decor from her home country, table cloths, place mats, clothes, hats, coats, etc. She also will routinely eat chicken and fish that's been in the fridge for two weeks; she thinks it's good for her to "make her system run."

What is it with older people not caring about their house? I don’t mean cleaning etc...I mean like actually having it look nice and doing maintenance? Ugh. And eew about the chicken and fish. Especially The fish. I can’t imagine not eating fish within 2 days of buying it. Ugh.

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My mom doesn't wash greasy pans. For instance, she'll fry an egg, and the put the frying pan back in the oven (where she stores all of her pans).