I feel bad doing it, but I give some of the gifts my GIL gives me to Goodwill. I keep the ones I like and find to be useful, but I definitely give away most of the clothes/accessories.

I do this in part because I truly think she recognizes/knows my taste, she's just trying to "override" it. I like very simple, modern things. (If I'm choosing a sweater, for example, I choose a solid color, no print, in a plain knit with no pattern. If I'm choosing earrings, they will likely be very simple and small, no dangly/"complex" pieces.) She buys me thinks that are in her taste, like Vera Bradley bags or sweaters with patterns.

When I buy her gifts, I pick out things I think she will like. I feel like she just thinks my taste is boring, and she's trying to "jazz me up a bit."

She sounds so cheap, $4 is nothing

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

NP. Not really.

Nah. She's not a jerk. She didn't share her cookies with another grown up. She didn't eat in front of him. She didn't take candy from a kid.

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

That sounds fucking delightful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

Ageed. You can't buy a second bag of Oreos for him? Send me your e-mail, and I will PayPal you $4. You must need it.

Send me the 4$ too then because I'd be laying low with my hoard. An adult asking his hosts for cookies? Grow up or buy them yourself, prediabetic mooch. I don't make my snack food whims the business of others when I'm a guest. But then I don't run through a box like it's heroin, like it sounds like the pp's fil does.

Not the PP, but we hide sweets from my FIL because he can't stop himself from eating ALL of them, and he turns into a massive asshole when he eats sugar or simple carbs. Like, a huge dick. So, yeah, we hide that stuff from him.

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the strangest threads I've ever read.

I enjoy all of the MIL dinner suggestions. I wish OP's MIL could read this thread and make her menu!

Breakfast-
Sausage & Pancake on a stick
Instant Coffee

I told my MIL when her son cheated on me. It was bad form on my part. To be fair, all I got was her defending her son.

Guys, it's just cookies, and that PP sounded like she was laughing at herself. You know, like people with senses of humor do? Humor? Laughing? That funny barking sound people make?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

Ageed. You can't buy a second bag of Oreos for him? Send me your e-mail, and I will PayPal you $4. You must need it.

Send me the 4$ too then because I'd be laying low with my hoard. An adult asking his hosts for cookies? Grow up or buy them yourself, prediabetic mooch. I don't make my snack food whims the business of others when I'm a guest. But then I don't run through a box like it's heroin, like it sounds like the pp's fil does.

This is one of the strangest threads I've ever read.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

Ageed. You can't buy a second bag of Oreos for him? Send me your e-mail, and I will PayPal you $4. You must need it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

NP. Not really.

Anonymous wrote:My FIL was visiting for a week and during the course of that visit, my DH had a night or two of work travel. I hid a bag of Oreos in my nightstand and when FIL asked if I had any cookies or ice cream, I said no.

He's actually a nice guy, but he runs through sweets like there is no tomorrow. I'm an introvert and all I wanted to do was go to "bed" and watch trash TV in my room with my Oreos come 9 PM. HAND OFF MY HFCS, SUGAR-LARD FILLED TREATS.

You are a jerk.

Jesus, OP. That's not bad DIL moment, that's bad person moment. She wouldn't have anyone to compete with if you didn't compete back. You ENJOY that "emotional chess"? Now that I think about it anyone who plays something they coin "emotional chess" is a rotten apple.

My bad DIL moment is rolling my eyes when she looks away or talking about her being clueless with my girlfriends!

I don't know if this is a bad moment or just my patience was tested one too many times. My FIL is obsessed with blue eyes. He has 5 grandchildren now. Up until my son, none have had blue eyes, a fact he laments every single time he sees any of them. Our son has blue, but he's only one and I'm well aware they could still change since mine turned green from blue when I was 3. In any event, on his last visit he was prattling on about blue eyes and how glad he was that my son had them "just like his daddy." I blurted out "well, that would be shock to your son if he had blue eyes like his daddy since your son's eyes aren't blue."