Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

Anonymous wrote:Not petty, but FIL just violently threw a library book all the way across the room and yelled at MIL that she hadn’t put it away. And then launched into a diatribe about how she retains printed paper for reuse on the blank side because people (eg my family) can see their private info. He may not be quite right in the head? My teens were stunned and no one said anything. I wish my husband would have but the moment just…passed. We just arrived last night and are here for a week.

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Anonymous wrote:My in-laws keep parking in my driveway. We have absolutely no parking issues on our street. Plenty of spots yet they choose the driveway. Directly under my son’s basketball hoop.

Teach your son how to ask his grandparents if they can please move the car so he can play basketball and then delete this post. This is a really dumb vent, PP.

Anonymous wrote:I’m bracing myself for all of the interesting gifts my MIL will bring. I’m still laughing at the head massager with copper metal prongs (looked like spikes) she gave to my husband a few years ago. I thought it was a gag gift but she was dead serious.

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Anonymous wrote:We received our annual terrible gift from MIL in the mail today. We got a ceramic candy dish with a lid on it, with decorated in birds, with fake gold plating. It looks like it's circa 1982, and purchased from a thrift store or swap meet. Plus a ziplock bag of tootsie rolls. I'm LOLing as I write this. It's just so bad.

Husband has told her that we don't like knick knacks - what does she send every year for his birthday and Christmas? Knick knacks. Terrible, ugly, knick knacks.

Return them with a note "We don't want your sh*t."

I know you think you are super clever and edgy. but stop. no one wants your advice.

Anonymous wrote:All the kids to chipped in to surprise MIL with new washer dryer. Yet nobody wanted to pay for installation, asserting that it is super easy to DIY, a waste to put someone to plug in a machine etc.

DH paid for installation anyway (29 dollars), but MIL refused delivery man’s offer to install because “he is just a delivery man, what does he know about installing appliances?”

Welp. None of us knows how to install a washer dryer so it sits in the middle of the garage in the packaging waiting for someone to watch a YouTube and try to get it to work.

Happy Christmas everyone! We’ll be celebrating at the laundromat this year.

Anonymous wrote:I’m bracing myself for all of the interesting gifts my MIL will bring. I’m still laughing at the head massager with copper metal prongs (looked like spikes) she gave to my husband a few years ago. I thought it was a gag gift but she was dead serious.

Anonymous wrote:Elbowing my way in here to please ask that the scolds/old fashioned school marms leave! This is a petty vent thread; we do not need advice or practical solutions. I do enjoy reading petty vents and this thread has the potential to be hilarious and therapeutic.

Anonymous wrote:I generally like my in laws, so here's my tiny petty complaint. My nephew is a picky eater who doesn't eat a lot and grazes instead of eating meals. When I host, I have plenty of breakfast food options--muffins, bagels, English muffins, etc. My nephew will ask for a bagel. My SIL will say "do you want half?" (Why does she even ask?) he immediately demands a whole bagel. She gives it to him. He takes 2 bites of it (not exaggerating). Then they leave it on the table for hours because "he might come back to it later" HE NEVER DOES. Repeat for the next meal. I wish she would just give him a quarter of it or half so someone else can eat the other half and it doesn't go to waste. They stay with us for a few days and so much food is wasted because this kid demands something whole, they give in, and he never finishes it.

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Please include every last detail about all weirdness centered around food- I loved it last year and find it endlessly fascinating.

Anonymous wrote:I’m stressed about packing for vacation—it’s been a lot of work to plan and stuff purchased that we don’t normally have and much of it has gone missing since I bought it. Was expressing frustration I’ll need to go out to buy more tomorrow and husband announces that I’m such a complainer and he’s never ever ever ever ever going to plan another vacation. He has no concept how much work it is to actually plan a vacation. He just buys the plane tickets and expects me to do the rest.