My Mother Arrrgh!!!

[puddicat]

Have spoken about my mum before about her need to buy and hoard useless objects and buy me food that i dont either want or like,its getting worse i keep trying to tell her that i dont like tinned sardines or cheapo tomato soup,and out of date stuff,but she has turned up today with tomato soup and crisps that are out of date,and this hideous giant bratz alarm clock,that a eight year old would relish, obviously got from a boot sale,i was at work so these items were in ther kitchen when i arrived home what can i do???

[roomster]

Take them straight back round to hers! I would anyway, i have problem at the mo of my mother in law to be cleaning my house....makes me livid!

[mccfluff]

roomster send you mother round to mine pronto and i'll have the bratz alarm clock, it would make an ideal present for someone........

[puddicat]

hi roomster havent been to my mothers house in years,she doesnt exactly make you feel invited,its like the bastille lol!!!

[B00]

Be grateful?

your mum sounds lovely, ok- the food is out of date yada yada yada, but she's still trying to look out for her little girl in her own way.

I think it's sweet and endearing.

[craft1948]

god I'd stamp on that. Back in 1971 we bought our first house and then my husband went on short time at work and I was at home with my daughter so we were really skint. We were managing okay but economising and one day my mother-in-law brought some butter round because her son wasn't brought up to eat margarine!!

[roomster]

Well if she wont listen sounds like you will just have to say thanks fake a smile and throw away if not wanted. I will never be grateful for my mother in law cleaning, I have told her not to do it and find it embarassing!

[puddicat]

Possibly boo,but when you have had cast offs from charity shops,electrical items several times over that have come from a boot sale,clothes that are too small,catering packets of packet soups,sardines,gloopy soups,those stinkin cheese sandwich biscuits,tuc ryvita and crackers by the bucket load,a excersise machine that makes your bum wiggle,a hairdrier that exploded in ure face,enough batteries to power a submarine,cheapo light bulbs,out of date crisps,and biscuits,enough toilet rolls for you build a barracade and 19 bottles of washing up liquid,7 packets of macaroni,15 tins of tinned tuna mayo witha lime dressing,6 bottles of extremely powerful worcester sauce,and 11 bottles of some budweiser marinade you have to say enough is enough!!!

[Bbbananas]

Bless her - she sounds lovely, a bit like my my mum. Annoying but "it's only because she cares".

She seems to have a thing about clingfilm. My sister & I have acres, yards, tubes of the damn stuff. And tin foil. She buys in industrial-sized tubes off a market stall - we have enough between us to wrap up the entire contents of an Adams pork pie factory.

[craft1948]

For years my mother used to buy bath products - we only have a shower, and every anniversary she'd send a 'Congratulations on Your Wedding Day' card. I really miss them now she's gone.

[shaneystar2]

Smile and be grateful. Bung it the bin when she has gone .
I can remember my Mum doing similar things .Wish she was still around to annoy me really .
I have just lost my beloved Mum in Law too .Wish she was still here too. She used to clean my house when they came over from Germany .I was forever grateful as I was slogging at work :)
They are a long time gone and who knows what we will be like .I am getting to stage where my sons groan when I ask one if has his thermals on when it's cold and the other one if he is eating properly :)

[Bbbananas]

Hang on puddicat - "11 bottles of budweiser marinade"?!! What's that all about then?!

[johnny7]

Find out what she doesn't like and keep buying them for her. Simples!

[B00]

I can see what you mean puddicat, I do feel your pain, honest!

But I really think the only way you can go about this is to smile sweetly,accept the crap she gives you then bin 'em as roomster says. She really does sound like she's still trying to look out for you, albeit in a rather bizarre way :-)

[puddicat]

I know ladies but our family is extremely split and she hasnt exactly been close to any of us,i defend her with my other siblings though,all i see now is a very elderly frail lady that still is trying to make up for what she has caused i think,if i ever challenge anything she gets upset so i just leave it!!!

[puddicat]

salla,my mum must have gone to local market and got those marinades cheapo!!!

[legendis.god]

send her round mine

what i cant use ill sell on


im surprisingly versatile


she sounds nice actually

how old is she?

[kira000]

Thank her, and tell her that you really appreciate how thoughtful she is, but that you feel really bad at her spending her money on you now that you are all grown up, and that it would make you so happy for her to spend it treating herself instead.

[B00]

PS

Am I the only one who saw Puddi's long list and thought some of those items would come in handy in their houses?

Just me then?

[shaneystar2]

Mmm yes ..I like tinned sardines and as for toilet rolls ..well you can never have enough lav paper :))

[legendis.god]

those are luxury items in the reef


cheapoo tonmato soup becomes magically worth over a quid when it gets here lol