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[quote=Anonymous]Over the holidays we unexpectedly had some members of DH's extended family come to our house for the first time (we've lived here for 14 years). From the second they walked into the house (two separate arrival times), MIL kept telling me to give them a tour. I ignored her as much as I could and was successful with the first group that arrived, but then she started up again when the second group got there, and it just became awkward so I caved. We live in a nice home, but it is not some sort of palatial estate. We have an open floor plan. If you stand in our family room and do a 360, then walk 10 paces to the half bathroom - you've seen the whole first floor. I didn't offer to take them into bedrooms, but we went to the basement, which is largely a space for our kids minus one room. Generally I felt very silly walking them around and I'm sure it showed.

Unless I'd signed up to be a show house on a home tour, it would never cross my mind that someone would be interesting in "touring" our house. It feels pretentious to suggest they would, but am I off base? [/quote]

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