Anonymous
11/17/2025 04:57
Subject: Re:ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OMG. I thought my family was dysfunctional but I can’t even imagine fighting over leftovers. You all sound low class.
It's some wanna be rich thing to be fretting about your own family being "low class". They are cut from the same cloth even if OP is putting on airs about being classy when she wants to hoard leftovers for herself. None of this is classy.
No, you lack class just like the people described in these posts. Op isn't hoarding leftovers. She has guests to feed the next day. That isn't hoarding leftovers idiot. That such an obvious deceitful take on what op is describing. It's clear you're a parasite and these posts are making you realize what a leach we all think you are.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 04:39
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
My mom used to always turn leftover mashed potatoes into latkes the next day. It's a personal favorite of mine.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 02:09
Subject: Re:ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:LOL DH’s aunt from hell is exactly like this and 100x worse. We stopped hosting because of her as did my SIL. Hosting Thanksgiving for that side means cooking and buying a massive amount of food but that’s not enough, you have to make more than twice as much as needed. It gets up to 30-40 people so the poor hosts are struggling with 2 turkeys, 20 lbs of potatoes, 10 lbs f sweet potatoes, making a gallon of gravy, several Costco pies, etc etc. it’s awful.
She was angry the last time because there simply wasn’t room in our house to set up a full leftover packing table. She brought cheap restaurant take out containers and labeled them to return to Erma’s house ( ensuring a visit in her mind). She and her husband load up multiple for themselves and scurry it out to her car. She literally yells across the room that those turkey carcasses are HERS!
The best one is that she also takes whatever she and her husband want from the refrigerator and she tries to take cookware. I didn’t say anything as she was squeezing with piggish delight in finding cheese and other stuff she likes in our fridge. I did say enough when I caught her grabbing my good stockpot and Dutch oven. She had the nerve to say ooooh you can just come over and get it in a few weeks. I had to tell her no, it isn’t leaving my house.
Sounds like my aunt. Except she wouldn’t limit herself to the refrigerator, she would go to my closet and pack up clothes of mine for her kid and then random books and toys from my room too. It was traumatic to go over to her house and find my cousin wearing my clothes that I’d been looking for. My mom wouldn’t limit herself India I wasn’t being generous enough.
As an adult, we are always the ones bringing tons of food to friends’ homes or make enough for people to take home if we have them over. I think we are generous — but I don’t give my siblings anything.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 01:56
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Ugh mattress.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 01:56
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Did she take the matters too?
Anonymous
11/17/2025 00:46
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:I have more questions about Susan.
1. What kind of car does she have that your entire daybed fit inside of it?
2. What were you and DH busy doing that you didn't notice her with a screwdriver and dismantling the daybed?
3. How strong is Susan that she could do this! What is Susan's workout routine? I have some handy(wo)man work needed - is Susan available for hire?
LOL! I love that others see the insanity.
1. A van
2. Playing outside with our toddler.
3. It was one of those brass or brass looking (hollow) ornate daybeds that were popular in the 90s. No wood. I guess she dragged it outside & plopped it (piece by piece) in to her van.
She was supposedly inside packing to go home, came to the backyard to say goodbye, and rode off in to the sunset with the daybed. I ASSUME she thought (since it was in a second guest room), "well, they have other beds - they don't need this." No idea. I asked my husband to handle it, if he was so inclined. He was not so inclined.
Anonymous
11/17/2025 00:00
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this is regional or what but I used to be a guest and was never offered leftovers. Massachusetts.
I never heard of this before DCUM.
I was also born in MA, and in general nobody was sent home with leftovers, but if a kid REALLY liked something they were often given a ziplock of a couple extra. You liked this new pumpkin cookie I made? Here are two for the ride home. You decided this year that you actually love carrot cake? Here's an extra slice for tomorrow.
Same. I never heard of this until years ago someone posted about a cousin they despised because they would cruise in to the gathering late and not even bother to spend time with their relatives. The cousin would just take the tupperware, load it and leave.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 23:59
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:I think OP is the disturbed one here. She WENT and took BACK the leftovers her in-laws took out of their tupperware containers to reserve????? Talk about hostile!!!!!!!!!
What an insane take on what happened. You are one of those militant mils who thinks are dils are evil and should tolerate whatever crap their inlaws throw at them. Go back to 1950 weirdo.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 23:56
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:Thank god I am not from one of those stingy food cultures where I feel territorial over leftover food going to the two old people who raised my husband.
You are a fing drama queen.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 23:01
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
I have more questions about Susan.
1. What kind of car does she have that your entire daybed fit inside of it?
2. What were you and DH busy doing that you didn't notice her with a screwdriver and dismantling the daybed?
3. How strong is Susan that she could do this! What is Susan's workout routine? I have some handy(wo)man work needed - is Susan available for hire?
1. What kind of car does she have that your entire daybed fit inside of it?
2. What were you and DH busy doing that you didn't notice her with a screwdriver and dismantling the daybed?
3. How strong is Susan that she could do this! What is Susan's workout routine? I have some handy(wo)man work needed - is Susan available for hire?
Anonymous
11/16/2025 22:29
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
I think OP is the disturbed one here. She WENT and took BACK the leftovers her in-laws took out of their tupperware containers to reserve????? Talk about hostile!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
11/16/2025 21:58
Subject: Re:ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rude.
But I guess it could be worse:
My MIL took our daybed! Just took it apart, packed it up, and left. You are lucky I didn't call the cops, Susan. And this is why you have not been invited back.
Ok- Susan needs her own thread. I need to know more.
PP here. LOL - yes, she is a piece of work. I may start my own thread, but in a nutshell:
She is a stereotypical older boomer. She is the center of the universe, and we all must cater to her. She has a net worth of 7 million (I have seen the paperwork, as my financially savvy husband was helping with something), but "will die broke - I am spending every last penny. You are not getting anything."
She would come to our house, bring nothing to contribute, eat everything in site, refuse to help in anyway, go apeshit if she was asked to babysit for an hour. But we still put up with her, as we were stupid at the time. We finally stopped the invites when the extreme favoritism with the grandchildren started. Favoritism destroys families. But she really loved stirring the sh*tpot, and playing up the favoritism.
Holidays are so pleasant without her. We typically travel south and truly enjoy being with our daughter and son-in-law, and a few close family/friends who know how to act right.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 21:06
Subject: Re:ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Anonymous wrote:Rude.
But I guess it could be worse:
My MIL took our daybed! Just took it apart, packed it up, and left. You are lucky I didn't call the cops, Susan. And this is why you have not been invited back.
Ok- Susan needs her own thread. I need to know more.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 20:54
Subject: Re:ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
Rude.
But I guess it could be worse:
My MIL took our daybed! Just took it apart, packed it up, and left. You are lucky I didn't call the cops, Susan. And this is why you have not been invited back.
But I guess it could be worse:
My MIL took our daybed! Just took it apart, packed it up, and left. You are lucky I didn't call the cops, Susan. And this is why you have not been invited back.
Anonymous
11/16/2025 19:37
Subject: ILs take/divide up leftovers without asking
And have the runs 4,5,6 days later.