Petty Holiday Vent thread 2022

[Anonymous]

Mine is that I have zero items wrapped and my kid is always around and I can't get stuff done. I want my husband to take her out so I can wash the Christmas pajamas (ordered late and just arrived). Someone in the reviews said they found a dead roach in with their pajamas, so def want to wash prior to wearing.

that is my vent.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m stressed about packing for vacation—it’s been a lot of work to plan and stuff purchased that we don’t normally have and much of it has gone missing since I bought it. Was expressing frustration I’ll need to go out to buy more tomorrow and husband announces that I’m such a complainer and he’s never ever ever ever ever going to plan another vacation. He has no concept how much work it is to actually plan a vacation. He just buys the plane tickets and expects me to do the rest.

OMG - I could write this. My husband's idea of planning a trip/vacation is "we should go to XX" and then wonder why it's not happening.

[Anonymous]

We do a Yankee gift exchange with gifts $20 or less. I'm tired of the really cheap crap that some people buy. It's like they purposefully look for something no one would want - like a crappy pillow sham or plastic cups. You can get a lot of great things for $20 or less - come on! A Starbuck card, movie tickets - there's a whole wall of gift cards you can buy at the grocery store!

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Please include every last detail about all weirdness centered around food- I loved it last year and find it endlessly fascinating.

+1 MILLION - I may go search for that thread for a redux.

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Anonymous wrote:I generally like my in laws, so here's my tiny petty complaint. My nephew is a picky eater who doesn't eat a lot and grazes instead of eating meals. When I host, I have plenty of breakfast food options--muffins, bagels, English muffins, etc. My nephew will ask for a bagel. My SIL will say "do you want half?" (Why does she even ask?) he immediately demands a whole bagel. She gives it to him. He takes 2 bites of it (not exaggerating). Then they leave it on the table for hours because "he might come back to it later" HE NEVER DOES. Repeat for the next meal. I wish she would just give him a quarter of it or half so someone else can eat the other half and it doesn't go to waste. They stay with us for a few days and so much food is wasted because this kid demands something whole, they give in, and he never finishes it.

You should immediately throw the bagel away, lock up the kitchen and offer him a healthy piece of fruit to eat on the deck. That will show this little nephew, oh yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Elbowing my way in here to please ask that the scolds/old fashioned school marms leave! This is a petty vent thread; we do not need advice or practical solutions. I do enjoy reading petty vents and this thread has the potential to be hilarious and therapeutic.

Yes! I totally agree! Let's just have some fun here.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m bracing myself for all of the interesting gifts my MIL will bring. I’m still laughing at the head massager with copper metal prongs (looked like spikes) she gave to my husband a few years ago. I thought it was a gag gift but she was dead serious.

Those things are awesome. Send it my way!

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Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

10/10 - no notes.

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Anonymous wrote:We received our annual terrible gift from MIL in the mail today. We got a ceramic candy dish with a lid on it, with decorated in birds, with fake gold plating. It looks like it's circa 1982, and purchased from a thrift store or swap meet. Plus a ziplock bag of tootsie rolls. I'm LOLing as I write this. It's just so bad.

Husband has told her that we don't like knick knacks - what does she send every year for his birthday and Christmas? Knick knacks. Terrible, ugly, knick knacks.

Return them with a note "We don't want your sh*t."

I know you think you are super clever and edgy. but stop. no one wants your advice.

Just scroll past. This is a discussion forum, people are going to comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m bracing myself for all of the interesting gifts my MIL will bring. I’m still laughing at the head massager with copper metal prongs (looked like spikes) she gave to my husband a few years ago. I thought it was a gag gift but she was dead serious.

That thing is amazing—feels so good!

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Anonymous wrote:My in-laws keep parking in my driveway. We have absolutely no parking issues on our street. Plenty of spots yet they choose the driveway. Directly under my son’s basketball hoop.

Teach your son how to ask his grandparents if they can please move the car so he can play basketball and then delete this post. This is a really dumb vent, PP.

It's perfectly petty.

[Anonymous]

My petty complaint is with family members that buy gifts for everyone after we said we will draw names (usually unwanted stuff) and so everyone has to buy them gifts (probably stuff they don't want).

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Anonymous wrote:Not petty, but FIL just violently threw a library book all the way across the room and yelled at MIL that she hadn’t put it away. And then launched into a diatribe about how she retains printed paper for reuse on the blank side because people (eg my family) can see their private info. He may not be quite right in the head? My teens were stunned and no one said anything. I wish my husband would have but the moment just…passed. We just arrived last night and are here for a week.

If this is out of character for your FIL he should see a doctor. Inappropriate levels of anger are common in people with frontotemporal dementia. My dad had this. He eventually saw a geriatric psychiatrist who prescribed some medicines that helped. It’s not safe to be around a big strong person who is impaired and prone to angry outbursts.

[Anonymous]

I'm cooking/brining Christmas dinner at my parents house. They're local but due to health issues my parents can't easily leave their house. Not ideal but its okay. My Mom just called me to see if they're anything they can get to help with dinner. I guess that's a nice gesture but I do all their grocery shopping. So if I had said, yeah I think I need some more butter what would she have done? Add it to the list of groceries I buy for them?

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Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

This is amazing.