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Mother-In-Law Mall
A place to find great gifts!
and products related to mothers-in-law and other family members.
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Mother-In-Law Stories
December 7, 2006
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My MIL can be very sweet.
She likes to buy DH and I doubles of things that she already owns,
like dishes, towels, utensils, blankets, etc. The only problem
is that when she visits, she forgets this, and then argues with
me over whether or not she left these things the last time she came.
If I cannot convince her that the items are ours, she will just
pack them up in her luggage. I guess you just have to laugh.
Signed - Isn't That My
Linen Dish Towel?
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This is a funny story
to make you laugh, and hopefully ease some of your MIL problems.
Earlier today my MIL called me to let me know that my SIL would
be stopping by to visit after work. She then proceeded to tell
me that her (my MIL's) two front teeth had broken off while she
ate a spare rib, LOL. Rewind to about 9 months ago. We were visiting
my meddling MIL and she was eating a bacon and egg sandwich. She
took a bite into the bacon and one of her front teeth fell out.
There were others at the table! Anyway, she ended up super gluing
it back in her head, and I am dead serious! My DH and I sat and
watched her! Why couldn't she just take her lip and super glue
it to the other one while gluing her teeth? Now that would be great!
Back to the story. She told me that once again she had super glued
them back into her gums, OMG. It's all I could do to stop from
bursting into a hysterical laugh. But, I calmly referred her to
my dentist and she declined. Needless to say, MIL does not visit
the dentist. Remember, she does not believe in Dr.'s, if you have
read any of my earlier posts. My guess is that on Christmas Day,
while we are having dinner, they will come flying, popping, or maybe
even spitting out of her mouth. Or, they will be left in the ham
on her fork. It serves her hateful self right.
Signed - If Only She
Would Glue Her Lips Together
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Worst gift: My DH and
I have been married for 13 years, and over that time we have had
a "roller-coaster" relationship with his mother. She
became more generous with her gifts after DH and I got married (before
I always got the "free gift" that came with perfume or
cosmetics she bought for someone else). We try very hard to find
thoughtful gifts for her as well, but her gifts seem to have strings
attached. If she didn't like how we were "taking care"
of a particular item, she would try to take it back! She claimed
that I scratched a table that she bought for us one Christmas, and
actually came into our home, while we were gone, and took it home
with her. We called to ask what happened to the table and were
told that she was keeping it until we could learn how to care for
expensive furniture! DH did nothing to stop this behavior and refused
to take our key away from her. Another Christmas I made up a very
nice gift basket for MIL with candles and bath soaps, and she said
that she "hated" getting things like that because she
thought the giver was telling her she smelled! I honestly thought
she would like it because it was a gift that I would have liked
to get myself. After that DH was in charge of coming up with ideas
for her gifts, but I always ended up being the one to buy and wrap
them. MIL always made a stink about getting hand written thank-you
cards, so I would send those out, too. But did we get any in return?
No. After she said that she was going to stop spending so much
money on us because we (she meant me) were ungrateful and selfish,
I finally told her that I didn't want her to buy me anything at
all. Despite giving her things that she said she wanted and saying
thank you numerous times for her gifts to us AND sending very nice
thank you cards, we were still ungrateful and selfish? Accepting
anything from her felt like I was selling my soul to the devil,
but DH said, "Oh, she likes to give gifts and it makes her
happy." He didn't care, because she didn't make snotty comments
to him and he liked "getting" things for himself. Maybe
she meant that HER son was selfish, but felt it was easier to blame
me? So, after many fights and therapy we no longer accept gifts
from MIL because I made it clear that we enabled her bad behavior
by accepting her "soul-sucking" gifts and DH also enables
her rotten behavior towards me by letting her get away with saying
rude things to me. It got worse after we had a child. Then MIL
started trying to control what our DD did with her presents, as
well. This woke up my long-in-denial DH, and he had it out with
her. That was a month ago and she still isn't speaking to us.
I think I am finally getting a great gift from her this year. Silence!
Thank you Santa.
Signed - Would You Sell
Your Soul To The Devil For A Christmas Gift?
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