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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL is like this and it isn’t anxiety. She just has no common sense and too much time so she makes all situations way more complicated than they need to be. Also never thinks about how it impacts others. Mostly she wastes her own time and money so I don’t care, but then I have to hear about the whole story so it’s annoying.

Examples - 
I send her a link for a cheap $5 toy on Amazon that my 4yr old would enjoy for his birthday. She has Prime. It was on prime - not an add-on. She takes the link, prints a copy of the picture and blows it up to see the brand name. Proceeds to call every store in her town asking if they have it after she went to 3 stores in person. In person at Micheals she talks to the manager to ask if they can stock it for her. It’s those capsules that melt in hot water and turn into little sponge animals.

Friend in UK’a mom dies. She wants to send flowers. She doesn’t find an online florist or call the funeral home in Scotland. She calls a local florist and of course the florist can’t process her check??? Or a foreign credit card?? So she asks the friend whose mom died to pay the florist and pays her back.

I work from home and there have been many times when I’ve been at their house on a long visit on a work day and working from their office. I hear her start her day with coffee at 9am.. Around 10 she starts making calls and deals with random customer service things until 1-2pm!! Sending emails, following up, leaving detailed Amazon and Etsy reviews “because they invited me to”, calling store managers about obscure questions / products she can buy online, etc. Then she breaks for lunch and runs an errand. When she gets home at 5-6pm she wonders what to have for dinner and inevitably needs to go to the store. She is the most inefficient person I have ever met - and so busy! She is always stressed about how busy she is with all the busy work she makes for herself. [/quote]

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