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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Staying with MIL.

Everybody including adults must put a towel on their chair while eating at the kitchen table.

There is only bar soap in the entire house. [b]Dishes are hand washed with a bar of Ivory soap. 
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There are decorative liquid soap dispensers in the bathroom but they are only for show. Decorative tissue box covers are also empty. She doesn't like for people to use the decorative hand towels but there aren't other towels to use.

The upstairs shower drain is clogged so you're basically standing in a bath by the time your shower is done. It's been this way for over 2 years. She doesn't think it's an issue.

[b]Everyone is freezing but MIL won't turn the heat up. [/b]

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Who the fu*k would wash dishes with bar soap??  And why wouldn't you check into a hotel?[/quote]

I don't know. But today I started loading the dishwasher because it's just ridiculous. She thinks running the dishwasher costs too much money. But I don't mind that as much as the fact that the same bar of decorative soap has been in the powder room for at least 2 years. And it's the only soap in the whole bathroom. There's not a hotel nearby and it would devestate her to have us stay somewhere else.

She thinks all of this is totally normal. And it pretty much all stems from her being incredibly cheap. I told her today that the bathroom sink also backs up while the water is running and she said that it's fine because she never uses that bathroom and it's not worth getting it fixed for the few times a year she has guests and we're family so she doesn't need to impress us.

The towels on the chairs are because her kitchen chairs are covered in a suede-like fabric and are hard to clean so she has people sit on towels in case any food gets on the chairs. When we eat in the dining room, which is incredibly rare, she covers the rug with towels as well. Of course she would have chosen an all white dining room. It makes total sense to her.

But that's how she lives her life in a nutshell--for appearances only.

#2morenights

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My dad was like this, but I finally figured out that he and his six siblings were born before, during and after the Depression.   [i]Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without[/i] - was a way of life that just could not be changed even when the hard times were long over.  He also had a weird thing about appearances.  It never made any sense to me that we'd have an entire room of dusty furniture and bric a brac that no one used but until very recently, that was a cultural norm up and down the SES.

Thankfully, he never resorted to plastic covers on the furniture but he had a whole set of towels in the hall closet that were just for sitting and he'd pass them out when company came over.[/quote]

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