Anonymous wrote:Turn on the TV during a meal without asking first. Decide they're going to just "whip something up" in the kitchen when they've been fed breakfast and lunch and Thanksgiving dinner preparations are underway. Make cellphone calls from the middle of a public area of the house while others are chatting. Announce that they never like x,y, and z while watching the host prepare x,y, and z.

Feel free to add to my list and vent.

None of this would bother me. I guess because I am not some anal person who expect house-guests to behave like they are beholden to me. My house guests can help themselves to any food and drink they want, borrow my car, sleep late, nap, order take out, do their laundry, expect new tolietaries, bath sheets and fresh bed linens etc. They can tell me their dietary restrictions and they can come shopping or sightseeing with me.

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

We have a Mercedes SUV. I usually bring dessert to dinner whenever we are invited. Is a dessert insufficient to bring to a dinner party?

We host all the time and I don't count on guests bringing dishes. I am preparing to feed my guests. They are welcome to bring something but don't have to. Most people bring dessert or alcohol.

We take alcohol if I can't get to Wegmens or Whole Foods to pick up a dessert.

Hell of a lot of difference between a Wegman's or Whole Foods pie and a Kroger one.

OK, I have never been to a Krogers. Don't think they have them by where I live. Is it so different than a Giant or Shoppers?

It's related to Ralphs on the West coast. Not sure if it's related to Giant but it's probably about that level. It's a giant supermarket chain in the south

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

We have a Mercedes SUV. I usually bring dessert to dinner whenever we are invited. Is a dessert insufficient to bring to a dinner party?

We host all the time and I don't count on guests bringing dishes. I am preparing to feed my guests. They are welcome to bring something but don't have to. Most people bring dessert or alcohol.

We take alcohol if I can't get to Wegmens or Whole Foods to pick up a dessert.

Hell of a lot of difference between a Wegman's or Whole Foods pie and a Kroger one.

OK, I have never been to a Krogers. Don't think they have them by where I live. Is it so different than a Giant or Shoppers?

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

We have a Mercedes SUV. I usually bring dessert to dinner whenever we are invited. Is a dessert insufficient to bring to a dinner party?

We host all the time and I don't count on guests bringing dishes. I am preparing to feed my guests. They are welcome to bring something but don't have to. Most people bring dessert or alcohol.

We take alcohol if I can't get to Wegmens or Whole Foods to pick up a dessert.

Hell of a lot of difference between a Wegman's or Whole Foods pie and a Kroger one.

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Anonymous wrote:Pulling up in a new Mercedes SUV with their 4 kids and all they brought was a cheap-o Kroger pumpkin pie. My husband and I spent over $1000 on this spread!

Buying a new Mercedes SUV probably leaves very little disposable income. Try to have more compassion and understanding.

We have a Mercedes SUV. I usually bring dessert to dinner whenever we are invited. Is a dessert insufficient to bring to a dinner party?

We host all the time and I don't count on guests bringing dishes. I am preparing to feed my guests. They are welcome to bring something but don't have to. Most people bring dessert or alcohol.

We take alcohol if I can't get to Wegmens or Whole Foods to pick up a dessert.

Anonymous wrote:I skipped to the end hoping to hear more funny stories and this thread is still talking about lasagna? WTH? Isn't there a weird uncle taking dumps in the master bedroom? MIL getting plastered on riunite on ice, how nice.

LOL!!!

I skipped to the end hoping to hear more funny stories and this thread is still talking about lasagna? WTH? Isn't there a weird uncle taking dumps in the master bedroom? MIL getting plastered on riunite on ice, how nice.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is amusing that people are arguing about groceries to make lasagna. I will gladly eat your $80 lasagna. For all the people nitpicking, you usually have to buy more than you actually use. You don't just buy 1 egg.

I find it amusing too. I would love a slice of the $80 lasagna and some of the open bar. Sounds like a great party.

Anonymous wrote:I hate you all.

+1. I hate this thread so hard.

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Anonymous wrote:For $80 you could buy almost 3-4 lbs of quality seafood, or good-quality meat, and prepare it simply.

And instead you force me to eat fucking LASAGNA? Gag.

But it wouldn't be a FUCKING LASAGNA then would it?

Do you go insane when you see people spending large amounts of money on pasta at Cafe Milano too? After all, they should be eating ragu and barilla, right?

Well, Cafe Milano is garbage so...yeah. They should be at Casa Luca.

Please provide us with a list of places that someone can appropriately spend their money so you won't be offended.

Dinner at Golden Corral for everyone!

Eating at Cafe Milano for anything more than people-watching is offensive to my tastebuds

So Golden Corral then, right? Or maybe Ci-Ci's pizza? I bet you can get an $8 lasagna there!

It has nothing to do with cost and everything to do with value. And you holding up CM as your example tells me you're out of touch by many years.

But if Casa Luca or Masseria are the Cici's in this equation, sign me up.

No, CiCi's is CiCis, as that seems to be the quality level that you are used to with your $8 lasagna.

And if you want to be really fancy you can order some garlic bread on the side for an extra 50 cents.

For $80, I don't want lasagna at all. Or for $8. Stuff is nasty either way.

But you've gone off on this weird tangent so ok.

^^ yeah, I once invited a friend and his girl to a big football game with me and my wife. The tickets were expensive and I had really good seats. I setup a great tailgate with games and food and they didn't even show up until the second quarter! Then, during the third quarter, they said they had to leave a little early - they left just after the forth quarter started. I felt used and as though the game was an inconvenience. Needless to say, I never invited them to another game (I really never talked to them again after that).

Bring broken, expensive antiques as "gifts" that we then have to pay to repair or feelings will be hurt.

Brought boxes of stuff with them: newspapers, Black Friday ads, books, crafts, their own cups and water bottles, own food (they only live a few hours away and we have a well stocked wine/beer/drinks fridge, a fully stocked bar with liquor and tons of food

Taking over a shared bathroom. My ILs are sharing the bathroom with my toddler son. They moved his toothbrush and toothpaste, his toilet seat for the toilet and his step stool. We do not have the luxury of multiple bathrooms. There is one in the basement and another in our room.

Coming into our room unannounced while I'm changing or in the bathroom.

Talking about body functions or the bathroom. Using the word "potty" for two adults. We don't even use that word for my two year old son.

Talking about money. My MIL told me that she gave DH and his sister $100K each towards a house. That is news to me!

Using terms that are racially disparaging

Making comments about my DS' preschool and if there are "Jews and Muslims"

Talking about excessive weight loss in a braggy fashion

Getting into an argument with your partner right before dinner in a screaming match

Going to the basement while everyone else is talking and taking a nap and leaving on all the lights, TV and gas fireplace

Anonymous wrote:CiCis pizza might rank as the top restaurant for unsanitary conditions - it's absolutely disgusting.

It really is.

I hate when guests show up late then leave early. It makes me feel like my hosting and smorgasbord was nothing more than an inconvenience for you.

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Anonymous wrote:$8 lasagna lady, what is your HHI ?

+1

+2 I would really like to know.