MIL threw away our coffee mugs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL keeps making snarky remarks about how I need new pots and pans because of teflon coating (none of them are teflon, she just doesn't understand the difference). And she's always telling me to use a new sponge bc the one in the sink is dirty, etc, even if I've only been using it for a day (and that she does throw out and open a new one). But the mugs are too much! I would've been so pissed! But I honestly would not know what to do, other than make it clear that I do not trust her. I'm glad your DH let her know she crossed a line.

Sponges are disgusting. They harbor bacteria. If they've been sitting out over night, then they have bacteria.

[Anonymous]

Why was this 3+ year old thread revived?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My MIL keeps making snarky remarks about how I need new pots and pans because of teflon coating (none of them are teflon, she just doesn't understand the difference). And she's always telling me to use a new sponge bc the one in the sink is dirty, etc, even if I've only been using it for a day (and that she does throw out and open a new one). But the mugs are too much! I would've been so pissed! But I honestly would not know what to do, other than make it clear that I do not trust her. I'm glad your DH let her know she crossed a line.

Sponges are disgusting. They harbor bacteria. If they've been sitting out over night, then they have bacteria.

Do you use a new sponge every day?

[Anonymous]

I'd have sent those mugs back in little, itty bitty pieces. Holy crap. I don't care if this is three years old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My MIL keeps making snarky remarks about how I need new pots and pans because of teflon coating (none of them are teflon, she just doesn't understand the difference). And she's always telling me to use a new sponge bc the one in the sink is dirty, etc, even if I've only been using it for a day (and that she does throw out and open a new one). But the mugs are too much! I would've been so pissed! But I honestly would not know what to do, other than make it clear that I do not trust her. I'm glad your DH let her know she crossed a line.

Sponges are disgusting. They harbor bacteria. If they've been sitting out over night, then they have bacteria.

Do you use a new sponge every day?

NP. I never use sponges. Nasty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My MIL keeps making snarky remarks about how I need new pots and pans because of teflon coating (none of them are teflon, she just doesn't understand the difference). And she's always telling me to use a new sponge bc the one in the sink is dirty, etc, even if I've only been using it for a day (and that she does throw out and open a new one). But the mugs are too much! I would've been so pissed! But I honestly would not know what to do, other than make it clear that I do not trust her. I'm glad your DH let her know she crossed a line.

Sponges are disgusting. They harbor bacteria. If they've been sitting out over night, then they have bacteria.

Do you use a new sponge every day?

NP. I never use sponges. Nasty!

How do you handwash dishes?

[Anonymous]

NP, but I use a plastic scrub brush on a handle and soapy water. Once used, the brush gets thrown in the automatic dishwasher with each cycle.

[Anonymous]

I never realized I was so attached to mugs until this thread, and I never would've thought someone would come into a house and toss them! I commandeered an old mug (I think came from my dad's office, but who knows) that I used from about age 7 onward for hot chocolate every winter. Hot chocolate never tastes better than when it's in that mug. My parents still don't know that I took it when I moved cross country. I was looking at it today and just thinking how mad I'd be if my MIL destroyed it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never realized I was so attached to mugs until this thread, and I never would've thought someone would come into a house and toss them! I commandeered an old mug (I think came from my dad's office, but who knows) that I used from about age 7 onward for hot chocolate every winter. Hot chocolate never tastes better than when it's in that mug. My parents still don't know that I took it when I moved cross country. I was looking at it today and just thinking how mad I'd be if my MIL destroyed it!

So that's why you revived this ancient thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never realized I was so attached to mugs until this thread, and I never would've thought someone would come into a house and toss them! I commandeered an old mug (I think came from my dad's office, but who knows) that I used from about age 7 onward for hot chocolate every winter. Hot chocolate never tastes better than when it's in that mug. My parents still don't know that I took it when I moved cross country. I was looking at it today and just thinking how mad I'd be if my MIL destroyed it!

So that's why you revived this ancient thread?

This thread was revived a week before I commented on it. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why was this 3+ year old thread revived?

Well, I'm not the one who revived it, but it's kind of a DCUM classic, like twincest is for Dear Prudence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why was this 3+ year old thread revived?

Well, I'm not the one who revived it, but it's kind of a DCUM classic, like twincest is for Dear Prudence.

I remember this thread too!

I'm anticipating the day "pregnant, swimming with dolphins" thread comes back to life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Makes me glad that my MIL is in CA. Sorry to hear that, she is looney.

Agreed - especially since this is exactly the type of things my MIL and FIL would do. LAst Christmas they threw away a bunch of my daughter's toys claiming the package had been stolen from their house. Only when I filed a police report did they confess - they decided my beautiful wooden imaginative play toys were too boring and substituted it all for some plastic crap with frozen stickers on it. We made it clear that this would be the last Christmas at their house. Some people are just controlling and crazy. She probably thought she was doing you a favor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Makes me glad that my MIL is in CA. Sorry to hear that, she is looney.

Agreed - especially since this is exactly the type of things my MIL and FIL would do. LAst Christmas they threw away a bunch of my daughter's toys claiming the package had been stolen from their house. Only when I filed a police report did they confess - they decided my beautiful wooden imaginative play toys were too boring and substituted it all for some plastic crap with frozen stickers on it. We made it clear that this would be the last Christmas at their house. Some people are just controlling and crazy. She probably thought she was doing you a favor.

A friend's MIL dug up her wildflower garden and had roses planted there. My friend hates roses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never realized I was so attached to mugs until this thread, and I never would've thought someone would come into a house and toss them! I commandeered an old mug (I think came from my dad's office, but who knows) that I used from about age 7 onward for hot chocolate every winter. Hot chocolate never tastes better than when it's in that mug. My parents still don't know that I took it when I moved cross country. I was looking at it today and just thinking how mad I'd be if my MIL destroyed it!

So that's why you revived this ancient thread?

This thread was revived a week before I commented on it. Get a life.

Sometimes you just need to let the mug go.