Here’s another food one.

Whenever we’re with my ILs, they make way, way too many desserts. It’s a small group: my family of four, two ILs, and DH’s cousin. They bring the biggest cookie tray you’ve ever seen, a separate tray of just gingerbread cookies, and—I am not exaggerating—six pies. Then when we don’t even make a dent in it, they complain about the waste. EVERY YEAR.

This year, I’ve had it with the “waste whining” and told them flat out, maybe don’t bring literally more than one whole pie for each adult for a three-day visit. There are 365 days in a year, you can eat a piece of pie whenever. Just make pumpkin, mince, and pecan, and then cookies. Like stop with the extraneous fruit pies.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is refusing to host Christmas because I’m not speaking with my sister (we are 32 and 29 years old).

Why aren't you speaking with your sister? What did she do?

If she wanted you to know, she’d have already told you.

Which is why we are team mom. Op knows she messed up and won't provide details because she knows.

No, you’re just projecting and willfully ignorant. Sad.

How can someone be willfully ignorant when the op is refusing the give details?

They can’t. This person is crazy. Posting multiple times.

Don’t pester people to make a gift list if you aren’t going to get them anything off it!

I could have bought some of the things on sale on Black Friday, but held off thinking my mother was going to get them.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is refusing to host Christmas because I’m not speaking with my sister (we are 32 and 29 years old).

Why aren't you speaking with your sister? What did she do?

If she wanted you to know, she’d have already told you.

Which is why we are team mom. Op knows she messed up and won't provide details because she knows.

No, you’re just projecting and willfully ignorant. Sad.

How can someone be willfully ignorant when the op is refusing the give details?

Anonymous wrote:My mom brought some cookie tins in from the refrigerator in her garage. She noted that the neighbor lady had made them and that we should eat the ones in a certain tin first because they were actually from last Christmas but she never got around to eating them. Earlier in the week, she also mentioned that some of the (unopened) cheese in her fridge had been there for more than a year. When I suggested that maybe she should toss it, she said no way, it’s better now that it is aged!

My mil is the same way with expired food. We have to check the dates and everything. I've found salad dressing that expired years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is refusing to host Christmas because I’m not speaking with my sister (we are 32 and 29 years old).

Why aren't you speaking with your sister? What did she do?

If she wanted you to know, she’d have already told you.

Which is why we are team mom. Op knows she messed up and won't provide details because she knows.

No, you’re just projecting and willfully ignorant. Sad.

Haha! “Willfully ignorant” and “projecting.” I can recognize your posts anywhere PP! Randomly insulting people, making assumptions about people and situations as if you are the authority, and getting weirdly angry/emotional about things people posr. People have different view points, it doesn’t make them “willfully ignorant.” You must be something in real life!

Do you own a mirror?

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is refusing to host Christmas because I’m not speaking with my sister (we are 32 and 29 years old).

Why aren't you speaking with your sister? What did she do?

If she wanted you to know, she’d have already told you.

Which is why we are team mom. Op knows she messed up and won't provide details because she knows.

No, you’re just projecting and willfully ignorant. Sad.

Haha! “Willfully ignorant” and “projecting.” I can recognize your posts anywhere PP! Randomly insulting people, making assumptions about people and situations as if you are the authority, and getting weirdly angry/emotional about things people posr. People have different view points, it doesn’t make them “willfully ignorant.” You must be something in real life!

Don’t post willfully ignorant things and people won’t call you willfully ignorant,

Happy Holidays!

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Anonymous wrote:My parents have a big house. It used to be a small house built in the 1950's but they added several additions over the decades and now it had a large bizarre layout (some rooms have 2 doors, the kitchen is small and closed, there are 3 living rooms). But anyway, my petty vent is that they keep the heat at 66F to conserve energy. Today DH put the kids in long underwear to play inside.

Hah! I am 37 and keep the house at 59-61. If we crank it to 64, we are living large!

Holy crap, I thought I was Ebenezer Scrooge (and my family agrees) by keeping mine at 65 in the winter, but you “win.” Brrr.

We are dealing with the opposite issue. My parents have the thermostat ste to 87! We sleep on the top floor of the house and it was over 90 up here. We had to open a window!!

OMG. I would die. I’d sleep in the yard. My condolences.

-65 degree Scrooge

I went over my Christmas budget to buy DS1 exactly what he asked for (he’s in middle school). His reaction was just dry and lukewarm. Like…this is exactly what you asked for, come on, dude.

The petty part: he is JUST LIKE ME.

I am thinking of my poor mom on long ago Christmases with my unenthusiastic responses to gifts I asked for.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is refusing to host Christmas because I’m not speaking with my sister (we are 32 and 29 years old).

Why aren't you speaking with your sister? What did she do?

If she wanted you to know, she’d have already told you.

Which is why we are team mom. Op knows she messed up and won't provide details because she knows.

No, you’re just projecting and willfully ignorant. Sad.

Haha! “Willfully ignorant” and “projecting.” I can recognize your posts anywhere PP! Randomly insulting people, making assumptions about people and situations as if you are the authority, and getting weirdly angry/emotional about things people posr. People have different view points, it doesn’t make them “willfully ignorant.” You must be something in real life!

PP with the flapping MIL and DH cooking turkey, pls post an update. This is hilarious and very much in the spirit of this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a small, funny accident happen yesterday. MIL will not stop bringing it up. I’ve laughed about it, I’ve sat by and allowed her to recount it a few time, I’ve chuckled…but now it’s done. I made a big dinner tonight, we went to church, my home is lovely, my kids are great—and she’s made about five more digs about it in the last hour. Like, I GET IT, there was a flub, it affected no one but me, it happened.

I’m not proud of myself, but the last time she brought it up (as I was putting two very excited kids to bed), I finally turned to her and said, “OK, yes, X thing happened, and now it’s over.” While I was putting them to bed, she went to bed in a huff, so I feel a little bad, but honestly? I’ll take the quiet.

You can’t leave us hanging! What was it? Did you trust a fart?

No. I was distracted and put my hand right on the handle of a roasting pan I had just brought out of the oven. I didn’t get badly burned, I’m just known as a very careful, safety-conscious, “be careful” person, so I agree that there was some irony to it.

That said, when someone gets burned making you dinner and will be making all your meals for multiple days, it’s not that funny, if it’s funny at all.

Wow. You got physically hurt and she, an adult, is “comically” perseverating about it? How ridiculous.

DP. Don’t feel bad! So oddly competitive of MIL to be joking (and shaming you?) about this incident. You handled it well by telling her it’s enough without saying more.

I’ve always done most of the cooking myself, but this year I told DH that I was willing to do [list of meals and food items] and he could buy or make the rest himself. He thought this was totally fine and a totally fair division of labor.

DH’s family is here, and they always have turkey for Christmas—basically the full Thanksgiving spread all over again. I’m doing most of the sides; he’s roasting a turkey for the first time in his life.

MIL is aghast that “I won’t help him” and is frantically Googling how long to cook the bird, etc. She’s like, “Why doesn’t Larla just do it how she usually does,” even though he’s explaining to her that we’re sharing cooking duties this year, and he is doing the turkey and is happy to learn how to do one. Notice that she’s not offering to help, she’s just flapping.

Whatever, either it will be done “right” and “on time” or not—it will be done when it’s done, and we’ll eat when we’ll eat. But she’s basically ruined gift opening by saying shouldn’t we have an (unstuffed, not that big) turkey in the oven now now now right now even though it will only take 3-4 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the DH who snuck gifts out of the stocking and pretended he bought them. I mean, did he think you wouldn't notice?

Next year Hannukah is a lot earlier than Christmas (begins on December 7th) so I would just make sure you hide all your presents you bought in advance in a spot he doesn't know about so he can't steal them..

This is hilarious! These are supposedly grown-up adults!

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe the DH who snuck gifts out of the stocking and pretended he bought them. I mean, did he think you wouldn't notice?

Next year Hannukah is a lot earlier than Christmas (begins on December 7th) so I would just make sure you hide all your presents you bought in advance in a spot he doesn't know about so he can't steal them..