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I had my MIL for 2 weeks this summer and that was enough! How you will cope for 3 months I do not know!

My MIL's best line was after every meal - all of which I cooked - when she sat down with a big glass of my wine and said what a shame it was she couldn't help with the washing up as she didn't know how these new fangled dishwasher things worked................:curse::curse:

This was after I had to go out and do a whole new grocery shop because she 'didn't like' the food we had in the house. Apparently, we should have known that she doesn't like;
spicy food
chicken
turkey
any cheese other than mild cheddar
sultanas
raisins
anything with sultanas or raisins in
any crisps other than Walkers plain
chocolate (CHOCOLATE??? who doesn't like chocolate?)
sweetcorn
salad cream
full fat mayonnaise
raspberries
coffee
pasta (PASTA???)
Foreign food'
garlic
green beans
any pulses
baked beans
brown bread
Lots more that I've forgotten......................................

It was a nightmare trying to cook for her and actually produce something which was healthy and interesting to eat for the rest of us. She also had to have the SAME food for lunch and breakfast every day.


Our house is for sale. One day we had a houseviewing and I asked her to take my little one to the park while I cleaned the house and then showed the people around. After an hour she rang to ask if I could collect her as she was bored. Then she sat in the garden reading the paper while I cleaned up all her mess, looked after a small child and generally stressed about the viewing. She never once offered to help. She is in perfect health, so no excuse. however she gave up cleaning her own house years ago and lives in a state of filth!!:eek:

OH went to work at 7am every day and didn't get back until 7pm. Wonder why??:curse:

In my view moving to Australia isn't nearly far enough away from her. I've told the Oh that she can come and visit but she has to stay in a hotel as I am not slaving after her for 3 months.:mad:

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I think you deserve a medal!!

mother in law from hell material here!!:lol:

hey we could start a thread who has the worst mother in law and give them marks out of 20!!:thumbsup:

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It wouldn't be fair on the rest of you if I entered that :rofl:

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I don't know if you would win - I've only told you what happened a couple of weeks ago I have 23 years more MIL stories....

Take the second time my Oh took me out - we were only 17 and neither of us could drive or had a car. We lived 8 miles apart. We arranged to meet at the bus depot in the middle, (romantic eh?) where both our buses came in from their respective directions.

I got there on time on my bus and waited for the OH's bus to come in. he wasn't on it. So I waited alone in the dark for half an hour in a deserted bus depot for the next bus and he wasn't on that either. So I got back on my bus and went home. When I got home my Mother was furious that he had allowed me to take such a risk. The next day he phoned to grovel and I asked what the hell he was playing at. He told me that his Mother wouldn't let him go out as he had to do the washing up after dinner and she hadn't finished eating! She wouldn't let him phone to say he was going to be late either!

At this point I told him if he ever did that again it was the end for us and he had to ignore her. Bless him, he did and we are still together but she tried her hardest to break us up. We had to move 100 miles away to get out of her grasp. Even then, she used to write poison pen letters telling him to leave me. She also used to send job adverts for positions near to where she lived! OH's sister has never been allowed to move away and is unmarried at 43... need I say more!:curse:

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Wow iPom - I really feel for you.....and you are a brave woman! I cant spend more than four days with my folks.

Re the grocery shopping/bill, is this a real concern?

If so - and I completely understand, what about doing a shopping list, and explain to your folks that you guys usually live on $x a week/month which is pretty tight, and would they be OK with eating vegetarian so that you are all still able to eat (or something like that), or could they help out by going halves in the weekly shop.

Alternatively, go shopping together, take ages, and start comparing "home brand" with "the next cheapest"....kind of thinking out loud, like "....hmmmm if we get this cheap porridge/oats, it will only cost $x per meal, versus the more expensive one" or what about..."you know, veggies are quite expensive here (lettuce, bananas LOL ), WE need to make sure that we can afford to eat properly...you guys are OK going halves in the supermarket shopping for the remainder of your stay, aren't you?

Good luck!

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Gotooz1

she doesent like 'Foreign food', why did she choose to visit a foreign country then?

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Sometimes i think orphans get a better deal out of life:rofl:

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We have not had ours stay for more then 2 weeks.

My mum had a really bad habit of washing the dishes badly and putting they away dirty, use the bloody dish washer :curse:

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iPom did u say u live in Winmalee?

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Is that all? Count your blessing one by one :lol:

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Do you remember the TV show "Sorry" with Ronnie Corbett? :lol:

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Have you poisoned them yet? ;) :D
S xx

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Don't get me started.

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Can't 'The Lord' guide her through it?


S

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No - further up than that by 20 mins. :)