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Discussion in 'Relationship With In-Laws' started by sita2223, Jan 17, 2011.

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  1. Jan 20, 2011 #41
    puni88

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    Few months back when my younger co-sis had her twins, she was giving bath to those babies with "Johnson baby wash".
    Seeing that my MIL said, no one gives bath with "Johnson baby wash" its not good for kids and she should start using LUX as she used that for her kids when they were babies.

    We laughed at this so much that this, how she is so much opposite to nature and what world follows.
     
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  2. Jan 21, 2011 #42
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    My God, your MIL is really a genius and kids specialist.:bowdown
     
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  3. Jan 21, 2011 #43
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    Wow... this is so funny! I have been laughing non-stop reading these!

    I don't have any major ones to share. My in-laws are super (because I don't have a SIL). But yes there are few things about them I find funny.

    In my home to give food to small kids we say mum mum. But in my DH's home, his mom says some word which translates to breast in tamil.. and she thinks it is okay to say it that way..

    This is not just for BF infants, all kids. Even her grown up grandson, she says did he have m****... hehe.. I find it very funny!
     
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  4. Jan 21, 2011 #44
    sita2223

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    OMG, this is just like my SIL. Once my DH bought a nice sweater for MIL and the next week MIL tells DH that she lost the sweater. MIL is very careful with things, so we know she is covering up for SIL. I won't be surprised if SIL lost it on purpose. :roll:

    :rotfl Thats funny!

    It must be really bugging when you know someone has negative intentions, but others think they are well-wishers. I see my SIL for what she is, the trouble-maker in the family, but my ILs think she is the peace-maker. :bonk

    :p glad you washed it off

    :mrgreen: bet she didn't like that

    :biglaugh Lux for babies and Johnsons for adults??

    eewww :eek
     
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  5. Jan 21, 2011 #45
    sita2223

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    Its nice to see this thread going on such a lighter note. Keep 'em coming ladies.

    I have been left open-mouthed with a lot of ridiculous things done by my ILs, esp SIL, but the icing on the cake was putting up a ridiculous song as ringtone for the cell phone that only my DH calls to. I wonder what they try to establish from that.

    Anyhooo... here is one more silly thing, courtesy SIL -

    SIL is so greedy that she wants everyone to give her gifts, but will never give gifts to anyone happily. If at all, on rare occasions, she does buy gifts for others, she has this habit of using them first and then giving to others. Once my MIL sent me some stuff, so SIL shows them to me and then packs them back with her stuff. Another time, MIL brought me some jewelry, but SIL actually wore them and used them for a week before giving me. I was like :idontgetit:
     
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  6. Jan 21, 2011 #46
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    Sita - OMG! How could you rein in your temper? I would have clearly told my SIL to keep the stuff herself and tell my MIL that if she really wanted to gift her daughter gifts, to do it directly and not use me as an excuse! Aaaargh! That makes me so mad thinking about it even.

    Here is another thing my MIL does:

    Whenever she comes to visit me or I go to visit her, we always end up having a major fight (I never participate in the fight but then my MIL has always been a one woman freak show). Still, she always acts like I argued or fought with her and will wage a cold war which generally lasts a good week atleast if not more. Anyways, so after the fight, she begins studiously and ritualistically returning anything and everything I gave her during that trip like if I had bought her perfume, lotions, notebooks, jewelary boxes etc. Not that she gives it to me in hand and says anything to my face. It is a cold war you see. She lays them outside my bedroom door, all lined up or neatly put in a bag. Sometimes I would find them coming out of my bedroom in the morning and sometimes I would find them going in for the night. On an average I can expect to find atleast 2 half used soaps, 3 almost empty lotions, 2 or 3 food items etc. Once I found old socks that DH had given her for using to clean her glasses, bundled inside a bag! Another time I walked out of the bedroom and stepped on a half used tube of toothpaste. It was so messy!

    She does this every single time! Like clockwork. DH likes to make fun of it by asking me every night ''So, what did the faierie bring you today?" or before I get her anything he always remindes me "You are going to get half of it back anyway, why don't you pick what you like?".

    Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I am amazed at how someone so old can be so immature.
     
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  7. Jan 21, 2011 #47
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    Sita, I'm feeling really hurt about it actually. My husband and I didn't have a lot of money this year for gifts, so we really saved in order to send my mil/fil something nice. I spent over an hour in the store picking out the perfect glass ornament for my mil. I also went to starbucks to get them the coffee packets they like. And then I made the pecans and wrapped the tin up with a nice fancy bow. Also picked out a nice dress shirt for my fil. I messaged my sil asking her to mail the package to my inlaws right away, and that if need be, I will wire her the money to pay for the postage. Of course, I haven't gotten an answer to my message. My husband is feeling annoyed about it too. I'm really starting to hate her. She thinks she is soooo superior to me and my dh, because she gifts her parents flat screen tv and laptop, and we gifted candies and small trinkets. Whenever she gifts these things to her parents, she calls up my dh and makes him feel like an inadequate fool, that he is not giving enough. And now that we had finally saved up a couple hundred dollars to buy and ship the gifts, she won't even let it happen. I'm at my breaking point with her.
     
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  8. Jan 21, 2011 #48
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    ASG, I totally understand how you feel. Its really nice of you to put such effort in sending gifts for your ILs. Its really bad on your SIL's part to sabotage your gifts like that.
     
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  9. Jan 21, 2011 #49
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    I guess what helps me to not react is that - the 'gifts' that MIL intends to give me are so silly, not worth even bothering to confront SIL. For instance, the gifts from MIL which SIL showed me and then put it in her bags are... bindis and hair clips. And the 'jewelry' that my MIL intended to give me but SIL wore them first are... some beads chain, maybe 100Rs worth. So no point in confronting her for such silly stuff, right.

    You know the sad part is... I kind of value these gifts from ILs even if they are junk, because I never got anything from my ILs, not even during my wedding. And even these silly things, my SIL is too greedy to give. Anyways, DH and I laugh it off to keep our peace of mind.

    :biglaugh:biglaugh:biglaugh Couldn't stop laughing after reading this.
     
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  10. Jan 21, 2011 #50
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    Reading all the posts I am getting a feeling that my ILs are the whackiest of all. Similar to ASG's incident:
    My son has been going to Melbourne to participate in a inter-school competition for last 2 years. First year we informed my ILs about it. Next thing we knew- everybody inquiring us- how was his Mauritius trip? It was OK. Just a miscommunication we thought. But after 2 years of repeatedly correcting them, everybody still believes he had been to Mauritius.:bonk
    What's even more amusing is that my SIL is a geography teacher.:)
     
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