We were renovating our Victorian cottage and at one point could see clouds and sky from the ground floor kitchen as the roof and ceilings/floors were all removed.
PIL's asked us if we wanted to move in with them for a few weeks........5years later we eventually finished the house and moved out. It was great and we all loved living together it just took longer to do the house than it would have done living in it.
I'd love to get on with them, I just can't. Today he was talking at me about how all the immigrants get everything and some Muslim bloke in Rochdale. I don't know as I just zoned out.
I've dried out all my tools and stuff from the shed that got soaked when he left the doors open.
Oooh... another thing MIL does which I can't remember if I whinged about. She touches everything, and moves them a tiny bit. Example. Hairbrush on table. Walks in, touches it, moves it 5mm, walks off. Oh... Here's a classic. We have a Tupperware drawer with all the plastics in, each thing with the lids on, as it should. She removed all the lids and put them at the side, and then all the boxes in random piles. I replaced all the lids. Just spotted they are separate again!
They're here for a month. They go next Tues. Fair to say, Kool FM has been playing some crackin DnB a lot recently. Congrats to myself for not succumbing to beer/wine/whiskey as a coping strategy. (Thus far!)
I can do this...... :s
They’re here for a month
And as far as you know, they haven't washed in all that time?
And as far as you know, they haven’t washed in all that time?
Well, funny you should ask. My FIL just went in the bathroom and it sounded like the shower was running.
I'm gonna say yes, he's showered. But also he's just put on the clothes he's (probably) slept in last night, worn all day and now wearing again... It's 2330 now. Actually I'm pretty sure he was wearing them yesterday before I went on shift! (a little ewww methinks).
Plastic spider (a big one) in one of the tubs.
Ah, we have enough spiders mate. Bloody winter here, they all come in the house. 😀
When they leave say what I say to my folks......"it's nice when you visit us but nicer when you leave"
Ah, we have enough spiders mate. Bloody winter here, they all come in the house. 😀
In that case, use a real one. If they're also lodging in your house, might as well make them useful 😀
Just put a post it note on top of the tupperware with **** right off written on it
"I love you to bits, but right now you're making it very hard"
Usually works.
Certainly better than a claw hammer and 10 stretch
having a shower dries her skin out!!!
Oh my...its a shower, it doesn't need to be a chemical rinse unless you make it one....
@OP I admire your stoic mindset
I once had a bit of a 'cook out' social event at my house...a few friends bring food and drink etc and we cook something up based on what random stuff people have brought...
One 'friend' felt the need to vocalise, that he didn't at all like that one (technically 2) of my kitchen cupboard doors have to be opened and closed in a certain order, to close properly, as it's a corner cabinate...
After a few seconds of confused disbelief, I simply said... well, if you ingore the fact one door has a handle, and the other doesn't, you have a 50/50 chance of getting it right... may the odds be ever in your favour!
That seemed to settle the debate. Hahaha!
I’d be blasting the MiL with a hose and then throwing a bar of soap at her. Also placing miniature bear traps in all the Tupperware. She sounds like a right dick.
It’s 2330 now.
Are you Buck Rogers?
”you smell bad, keep ****ing with my Tupperware collection and your husband doesn’t share his biscuits with his Grandkids. **** off”
That’s better than the other nonsense
Inlaws. Can’t live with ’em, can’t burn ’em
I do live with my MIL, and we definitely can't burn her because of her permanently attached Oxygen line. If you think a phlegmy FIL is a problem, try a MIL with COPD.
Another one that leaves bowls and cutlery in an inch of tepid water to brew up new and interesting bacteria. The sink is directly next to the dishwasher...
Did you get the camper trailer in the end? Perhaps you could suggest they might be more comfortable in there? Away from the loud music and running water.
You could drop a few hints too. Tell FIL the joke "where does an Englishman hide his money?"
My MiL is a horrible person. Once a year we go and stay and i go on a big ride, maybe 100km plus. When she comes to stay i go on a big ride, maybe 200k. See the patern?
I think you should see how long you can keep the Tupperware game silently going on for before she snaps and says something. Just keep putting them back.
Anyway... why do you keep them with all the lids on anyway? Takes up so much more space. We have a basket in the drawer with all the lids in it standing on their sides, and the containers stacked together. By size, not randomly, but still. This way it takes up half the drawer instead of all of it.
It's a massive, deep drawer. Heaps of space to have them correctly placed.
I kinda like the Tupperware game. I'm going to look now to see where we're at......
..... Lids not on again.
Lids now back on.
This morning I tried a different approach. I said the dog stinks like he'd rolled in a poop. "Ohh you stinky thing, do we need to put you in the bath and have a good soaky woaky you" *arf arf*
Joke's on me though, Wife told me the dog stole the cats food this morning and puked up 3 times. You'd think MIL would have mentioned that? Still no shower. They've gone to lunch and I've got back from the dentist so I... sadly, couldn't go with.
How long have they not washed for? I need a shower just reading your post. Also, how many of you weirdos have a Tupperware drawer? What year is this, 1986!
Off topic, what's the point of an organised tupperware cupboard?
Where's the exciment and danger of opening the door and not know if you'll be picking it all off the floor on a minute.
It like Schrödinger's Jenga.
Nah , I get it . All the pasta , noodles and food that comes in a plastic bag that self destructs when you try to just cut the corners off . Decant into tupperware pots with lids for product management and longevity.
Not sure where youd get them from, maybe an old nan's shop, but those nan-sized bars of soap in flowery wax paper, get a couple of them to put on their pillows each.
And yeah it is weird keeping the lids on tuppawere. Not only do you lose or on the jenga game but also the infuriating but ultimately joy filled (on success) of trying to match the lid to the box.
Not only do you lose or on the jenga game but also the infuriating but ultimately joy filled (on success) of trying to match the lid to the box.
To misquote Mrs Doyle... "Some of us like the misery"
We have a drawer full of tupperware/takeaway containers that we use for left overs lol! Fullness depending on how many are in the fridge/freezer with stuff in them.
For space many don't have the lids on which is a PITA for matchup at times.
Such a shame you had to have the house all to yourself after the dentists OP lol!
it is weird keeping the lids on tuppawere.
I have it in my head that Tupperware stored with the lids on harbours 'stale' air and starts to smell, whereas lids off has fresh circulation. This may be abject bobbins that I've made up at some point.
I hate the stuff. We have a cupboard full of mismatched tubs going back years. Of particular hilarity are ones from different brands which are almost-but-not-quite the same size, so the wrong lid will fit on one tub but their counterparts won't match. I'd thrown the lot out and start again with a known consistent brand if I thought for a second that my partner wouldn't immediately run out and buy random ones again.
how many are in the fridge/freezer with stuff in them.
Anything going into the freezer goes into baggies.
We just use old takeaway plastic trays, although the two different takeaways we use seem to have slightly different size trays and lids. We're not posh enough to buy actual tupperware branded items.
Also when we're running low it makes a good excuse to get a takeaway.
I like to stack them and organise them, my family like to throw them in the cupboard and slam the door before they all fall out 🙁
We use ours for leftover food and sauces kept in the fridge. Also for the kids cooking at school when they need to take ingredients in.
Take away containers and lids – my wife has taken to numbering them so that its easier to find the matching lid and container…
This is the level of genius I come to STW for.
Nah , I get it . All the pasta , noodles and food that comes in a plastic bag that self destructs when you try to just cut the corners off . Decant into tupperware pots with lids for product management and longevity.
Then you end up like my mother with 3216 tupperware boxes filled with random bits of food, no idea of the best before date and no easy way of checking what the food is in the first place.
She will buy a box of Weetabix. The nice yellow rectangular box, instantly recognisable in a cupboard as being Weetabix.
The stacked paper/foil things of 12 biscuits each get removed from the bright yellow easily identifiable box and put into - get this - a *cylindrical* tube-type tupperware container. Which doesn't fit properly into the cupboard containing cereals because it's ****ing cylindrical so it gets put 4 cupboards over, down there.
There is no rhyme or reason to this insanity. Tupperware has it's uses as maybe a lunchbox or a "there's some leftovers, I'll put them in here for one day".
Otherwise it can **** right off.
To be fair, single use lingerie is the best kind.
really hoping there is an inventory spreadsheet too. Do you need to sign them out when mkaing a packed lunch?
To be fair, single use lingerie is the best kind.
edible even better
Ah, we have enough spiders mate. Bloody winter here, they all come in the house.
Any way of encouraging a Huntsman to take up residence in the Tupperware drawer? It’ll probably take up the whole drawer, but that just adds to the excitement. [img] 
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Made a schoolboy error. Messaged the missus but accidentally used the "group chat".
Fortunately all I said was "your mother's been washing up all morning".
This might sound like she's helping. But she doesn't fill the sink with water, she individually rinses each item, but turning the tap on and off for a sec. Which makes a loud THUNK sound as the pipes rattle. Seemed to last for 2 hours. Now she's saying "well I won't bother washing up then".
GOOD!!!!! ffs.... Then you can stop turning the tap off and on for every single thing you wash!
Oh and found a Tupperware box IN THE SHED with 12+ lids inside it. I may, or may not have had a physical anger tick and yeeted them across the shed. Understandable, right?
The other night me an wife were essentially hiding in our bedroom. I just burst out laughing. My wife said "what?". I said I'm nearly 50 and hiding in my bedroom to avoid confrontation. I mean, it's hilarious. Aside from whinging on here, Facebook messaging my besty and coming here to rant like some mad man....
Tuesday they go....
(Also, FIL is still wearing the same clothes he put on AFTER his shower 4 or 5 nights ago, the clothes he was already wearing....) ewww.....
I'd be spending tomorrow ordering a new mattress and bedding for the guest room. Must be a biohazard in there?
No, they can't stay longer. Flight is back to UK. Phew. Oh imagine sitting next to them on the plane. He's encroaching on your space, she's taking her
The spare room has a sofa bed in (which was brand new). I may just incinerate it. I'd be worried about the noxious fumes that came off it though. It'd be like one of those US Army burn pits. Black smoke, toxic and never dies down. A lot like my MIL. (Ahhh thank ya...baddum TISS). Take my mother in law, no, please do!
It's just going to be nice to get home and not feel like I have to walk on egg-shells in my own gaff.
Just in case, I do feel pretty shitty about my attitude towards them - I am aware that others DO like their inlaws, or have lost inlaws. I am normally very tolerant and easy going....
I'd say it's utterly understandable.
To be played *loud* once you've got your house (& life) back:
