WOW, does anyone else have an anal MIL?

[momrek06]

WHEW!!!

read the thread title and though that the DIS was going in yet another direction!!

ME TOO, GP.....I thought the OP was asking about a disease called "anal mil"......

 

[bumbershoot]

i just want to say that i hate the word "anal", and to use it in a sentence with MIL makes me wanna hurl.

Same here. Wish people would write it all out, with that word then "retentive", or just use "retentive".

 

[minkydog]

My first question is why on earth did you allow your MIL to build an in-law apartment on the side of your house? If she only lived 10 minutes away, wasn't that close enough?!

yeah, that was my first question, too. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when *that* conversation went down.

Mama's Boy: Oh honey! I'm thinking about adding on an apartment so my cuckoo super-OCD mother can be EVEN CLOSER to us. Ten minutes is just TOO far. Whaddaya think?

Wife: Oh baby, I can't wait! I don't have *near* enough stress in my life and really, we'll just laugh and laugh at all the funny little things she'll do. Tell your mom to pack her things, we'll drive the RV over there and load her up!

I'm right, aren't I?

 

[surfergirl602]

Sheesh! Maybe she's a bit OCD?

Your first mistake... letting her build an apartment onto your house! LOL

 

[jen0610]

Also, you can't put trash in her garbage if she's just changed the trash bag...

OMG... and here I thought my mom was the only one with this issue. She has a trash can with a trash bag in it, but then she puts a plastic bag (Target/Wal-Mart type) in there that you have to put the trash in so you don't mess up the trash bag she just put in there. And she takes this smaller bag out to the trash bin, 4-5 times a day.

Her other one, she loves carpeting and HATES for you to walk on her carpets with or without your shoes on. As soon as you enter her house, you take your shoes off....unless she rubbed DH &/or I off, then we leave then on on purpose Every room is carpeted but the 3 bedrooms. But in the kitchen, bathrooms, and hall way, she has runners and small throw rugs for you to walk on. In the bedrooms, she has very large rugs placed in the center of the rooms. But like her carpeting, she doesn't want anyone walking on the "good rugs", so more throw rugs covering up the large rugs. Regardless of being in stocking feet, barefooted or for DH and I in shoes, you are screamed at to stay off the carpet and stay on the rugs.

 

[okeydokey]

We were out at dinner the other night, sitting at a booth. DH is across from his mom and she starts freaking out because his bowl, that he was eating from, was not centered in front of him. She honestly could not stand the fact that the bowl was two or three inches to the left of center.

On Thanksgiving she yelled at DH for putting a glass down on the kitchen table because QUOTE "she just wiped the table down"....it was a glass table. She told him he'd have to hold his glass all day.

Also, you can't put trash in her garbage if she's just changed the trash bag...

Can't rinse out a dish if she's just wiped down the sink...

Trying to figure out what would you do with it?

 

[mumom95]

My MIL is a bit anal, but nowhere near yours.

Am I the only person that loves lots of wrapped presents under the tree. I think it just looks so festive and warm. When I look at a Christmas tree with only a few presents under it, I think it's kind of sad.

 

[maslex]

This is the part that got me. You said she built an apartment--did you then GIVE her the garage???? It sounds like she may start taking over-- LOCK YOUR DOORS!

LOL, Yeah, I guess it sounds that way when I re-read it. We originally had a regular ole ranch style house with NO garage. When she built on, she added an attached garage (so that part "is hers" but I told her that I was going to put a plastic bin by my door to put all of our shoes in since we don't wear shoes in the house---she was absolutely fine with that just as long as they didn't "spill all over the place") She then built her apartment attached to the back of the garage....the door inside the garage leads to her kitchen.

And someone else asked why I let her build on. Well, I know she's been talking about it ever since our friend did the same (his dad died and his mom built on a garage with an addition above it) Well, to make a long story short...she's had both hips replaced and can't do the yard work like she used to, she was always calling my DH over to do this and do that and her useless husband found out he has Parkinson's (and no he's not useless because of the disease, he was useless WAY before that but now he's just more uncapable of doing things) so I told my DH that they could build on. Some days I regret it and some days it's fine. LOL But I think I've just been realizing how bad she was with things. I knew she was like this *to an extent* but like they say....you really don't know someone until you live with them (not that she actually lives WITH us, but it's close enough that I see she's worse than I originally thought LOL)

 

[Jennasis]

Trying to figure out what would you do with it?

I have an idea about where I'D like to stick it...

 

[princess momma]

My SIL once dropped something in my kitchen and got a good look at the vents and coils at the bottom of my refrigerator. She informed me that it's extremely important to take it apart and really get it clean, and offered to show me how. She's always got helpful suggestions for keeping my home spotless. It's not that I don't clean things, but I'm not afraid of the dust bunnies. My SIL is more concerned about a clean house than spending time with her kids and I think it's sad.

I can't imagine living with my IL's.

 

[rie'smom]

The OCD is how your MIL copes with problems. Some people smoke, some eat too much, and others are clean freaks. At least she's not a hoarder.

 

[ski_mom]

My MIL is basically the same. When DH was growing up, you couldn't sit on the bed in your bedroom because you would mess it up. Also, they have the no trash in the trash can thing? I'd never heard of that one! You also couldn't sit on the floor in the middle of the living room because it leaves "butt prints" in the carpet. Now with the grandkids, she will let them sit on the floor, but I'm sure the second we are out of the door she has her beloved Kirby out and running!

When DH and I were first married she came over to visit. After she had been there about 15 minutes, she told me that she'd take a day's vacation from work so she could come wash my windows. I guess she thought they were just terrible. Also, the first (and last) time that she babysat for our kids in our house we came home and she was dusting the plants.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

ME TOO, GP.....I thought the OP was asking about a disease called "anal mil"......

I would be afarid to even look that up!!

 

[dawn1620]

ME TOO, GP.....I thought the OP was asking about a disease called "anal mil"......

It is and I have it...started as soon as I said I do.