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The craziness that is my mother in law...Will I ever learn?
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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 497420" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Sounds SO much like my mother in law.</p><p></p><p>She has been giving us all kinds of JUNK she's saved from husband's childhood, and I'm supposed to find a place for it. A foot-long plastic marlin bought on a trip to Florida one year. The paint is chipped, but husband insists I hang it on the wall. A plastic cowboy boot cup that he drank out of when he was little. A latch-hook yarn picture of a B.C. comics caveman -- the piece is done on colored burlap and backed with cardboard and measures about 4 FEET by 5 FEET. Another piece of "art" is an acrylic painting he made on cardboard of some geese flying over a half-frozen lake. It's even framed with some 1" moulding I'm sure his dad built, and it's the same dimensions as his groovy caveman yarn art. It's not bad for something a 13yo of mediocre talent might paint. And I'm supposed to store this where? Oh, and thank-you-very-much for all the silverfish that hitchhiked in on these things. And FWIW, easy child has more talent in her right pinky, but husband is constantly telling people she got her artistic side from him. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> </p><p></p><p>mother in law saved receipts from his student loans. No idea why since I ended up helping him pay them off after we got married. She even saved the receipt for his high school ring. It was stolen before I even met him, but she so thoughtfully gave it to me a few years ago and told me she thought he'd like a replacement ring. Uh huh. Thanks. I'll get right on that. NOT.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and we have EVERY single trophy he's ever won -- going all the way back to elementary school. And he insists they be on display in our room. Where I'm sure they'll fall on my head during an earthquake.</p><p></p><p>It's kinda pathetic that he peaked at about 13 and it's all been downhill since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 497420, member: 3444"] Sounds SO much like my mother in law. She has been giving us all kinds of JUNK she's saved from husband's childhood, and I'm supposed to find a place for it. A foot-long plastic marlin bought on a trip to Florida one year. The paint is chipped, but husband insists I hang it on the wall. A plastic cowboy boot cup that he drank out of when he was little. A latch-hook yarn picture of a B.C. comics caveman -- the piece is done on colored burlap and backed with cardboard and measures about 4 FEET by 5 FEET. Another piece of "art" is an acrylic painting he made on cardboard of some geese flying over a half-frozen lake. It's even framed with some 1" moulding I'm sure his dad built, and it's the same dimensions as his groovy caveman yarn art. It's not bad for something a 13yo of mediocre talent might paint. And I'm supposed to store this where? Oh, and thank-you-very-much for all the silverfish that hitchhiked in on these things. And FWIW, easy child has more talent in her right pinky, but husband is constantly telling people she got her artistic side from him. :rofl: mother in law saved receipts from his student loans. No idea why since I ended up helping him pay them off after we got married. She even saved the receipt for his high school ring. It was stolen before I even met him, but she so thoughtfully gave it to me a few years ago and told me she thought he'd like a replacement ring. Uh huh. Thanks. I'll get right on that. NOT. Oh, and we have EVERY single trophy he's ever won -- going all the way back to elementary school. And he insists they be on display in our room. Where I'm sure they'll fall on my head during an earthquake. It's kinda pathetic that he peaked at about 13 and it's all been downhill since. [/QUOTE]
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