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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom (65) texted me yesterday, 12/23, for gift ideas for my younger brother. I was slammed at work and finally got to get a few hours later. I sent her something I think he’ll love and her response was “it can’t get here in time!”

No shi* Mom, it’s two days before Christmas. Go to TJ Maxx and get him a head scratcher. [/quote]

“Well, mom, that’s what happens when you wait until Mary’s water breaks to buy Christmas gifts.”[/quote]

:lol:

Visiting in-laws and there is not one comfortable seat in the living room. There is an assortment of chairs and one unbelievably lumpy, slippery sofa. It’s so odd. Buy some comfortable furniture already![/quote]

I so, so relate to this! Luckily, we are at our house this year. My ILs have literally two seating options:
1) High-backed Victorian sofa and matching wingback chair with no padding and honestly less comfortable than just sitting on the floor
2) Stupid rocking chairs with caning (no cushions)

Even they talk about how uncomfortable their sofa is. I’m like…what the hell? You bought a new coffee table, you remodeled your alread-decent kitchen, and you can’t spring for a new sofa? I will buy one for you. I’m seriously thinking of just anonymously sending them a new sofa and probably they would just deal.[/quote]

When we stay over at the ILs we are in DH's and his sister's old rooms. The mattresses are at least 40 years old. Then my FIL asks me every morning, "So how'd ya sleep?" Finally I just started saying, "To be honest, I didn't sleep at all, Bob! The mattresses are 40 years old." He just looks at me goes "mmmhmmm" and MIL shuffles uncomfortably. Once I even offered to buy new mattresses and MIL was like, "But we don't need new mattresses! We hardly use them!" Agggghhhh.  (I bring an air mattress now)[/quote]

I can totally relate to this - we had the same issue!! It was SO UNCOMFORTABLE (and also DH slept in the basement of his parents house, so we slept in the freezing cold basement in an ancient full size bed with the original mattress from when he was a kid). When we had our second kid we lost our guest room, so offered them the queen size bed and three year old mattress. We rented a truck and drove it out there (we usually fly but this was worth it). Life is so much better when we visit them now. Now I need to figure out how to get them to buy new pillows....[/quote]

Easy - gift the new pillows for the guest rooms so t"hey don't have to spend their hard earned money" (questionable in my MIL's case) on it? [/quote]

My in-laws have pillows made of concrete. Everyone here loves “firm” pillows. This year I just bought myself a pillow while we were out holiday shopping. MIL looked surprised and said, “We have soft pillows!” No, you don’t but now you have at least one![/quote]

I want to be at your in-laws house. I love concrete pillows, and all I can find are the soft smushy kind here.[/quote]

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