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Anonymous wrote:I hate it when people (my in-laws) put bags, like handbags or backpacks, on furniture. I know you had that on the floor of the bathroom at the airport and now it's on my new;y upholstered chair? Who doesn't put a bag on the floor (or a chair without fabric)? Does this make me crazy?

I have NEVER in my life put my bag down on the floor in public. Not on a restroom floor, not on mass transit, not at work, not anywhere. On the occasion I wind up in a public bathroom that doesn't have a hook on the back of the door to hang my purse, I awkwardly hold it, or if the strap is long enough, I've hung it around my neck. Now that I think about it I don't even put my purse on the floor in my home. It either goes on the bench by the front door, hung on the railing, or on the top shelf in my closet.

What do you do on a plane? Stow it in the overhead?

My MIL takes over my kitchen when she visits. Like, walks in and says, "I'm going to cook a pie, dinner, whatever...." She doesn't ask, she just tells me what she is going to cook and then cooks it. And gets insulted if I tell her my plan is to cook x instead. Makes me feel like an uninvited guest in my own home.

And then she goes on an on about the latest diet fad. Example, "Sugar is so bad for you. You should never eat it." While she is cooking a sugar-filled pie.

All the while, FIL is going on and on about how awesome Rush Limbaugh is.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids touching my walls. My clean, freshly painted walls.

Suggestion. Cling wrap them

Cling wrap the walls, or the kids?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

It was an accident. Buy 4 more frikkin' new towels and go about your life. Sheessh.

Obviously I bought more towels. But you'd think a 30 year old wouldn't ruin towels. Or use the white towel instead?

This is a really common problem. People don't know it bleaches because they have white towels at home. Always offer white towels only for guests. Keep the nicest ones for yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

It was an accident. Buy 4 more frikkin' new towels and go about your life. Sheessh.

Obviously I bought more towels. But you'd think a 30 year old wouldn't ruin towels. Or use the white towel instead?

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

Why did you not provide coasters? The fault in yours.

There is a coaster on the nightstands, not on the dresser though.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

Why did you not provide coasters? The fault in yours.

Anonymous wrote:I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

It was an accident. Buy 4 more frikkin' new towels and go about your life. Sheessh.

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Anonymous wrote:my inlaws (both parents and all of the sibs) always sit on the furniture with their feet curled up under them - not just resting on the furniture but really digging and rubbing into the fabric. Gross!! We don't do shoes inside the house so this is their bare skanky feet rubbing into the upholstery (shoes doing this would be worse of course but both are totally unacceptable in my view). who does this???

Humans. Humans do that. Including me and pretty much everyone I know. The reas question is who doesn't do that.

+1. The better question is who doesn't do that?

Seriously? You think rubbing your feet all over other people's sofa cushions is A-OK? I'm the PP who wrote the originsl post you're responding to - like I mentioned, it's not a matter of just resting their feet on the furniture but of seriously rubbing and digging into them. My DH does this too and yes, it grossed me out a lot when we first started dating but I never said anything to him. It's when his family started visiting that I realized it's a family thing. My FIL goes further by picking at his toes while sitting this way (tho unlike the other PP who had a MIL do this, I don't keep my kids from FIL because of the toe-picking thing - but can we all acknowledge this is gross? i don't think you have to be the queen of england to think that either).

Anonymous wrote:If you call low-class an accent...

People who are rude are also considered low class. For example, YOU.

I hate when guests leave drinks to sweat on my furniture. I just found a drink ring on a dresser in my guest room. Sad.

DH's cousin ruined about 4 of my brown guest towels (that were monogrammed) by rubbing his hands and face on them after he used benzoyl peroxide on his face. Surely he knew by then that it bleaches towels and sheets??

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL always takes off full rolls of toilet paper in our house and turns them around so that they pull from the bottom instead of the top. It's not even that she replaces an empty one to pull the other way -- she turns them around when there is no reason to disturb them.

ok that's nuts

Because toilet paper should dispense from the bottom.

I would never do this in someone else's house. Your MIL is a control freak.

I see so many posts of people saying in laws don't care about their kids, never come to visit, or give all their attention to SIL kids. And now we know why.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL always takes off full rolls of toilet paper in our house and turns them around so that they pull from the bottom instead of the top. It's not even that she replaces an empty one to pull the other way -- she turns them around when there is no reason to disturb them.

ok that's nuts

Because toilet paper should dispense from the bottom.