I Bitch

[tiggymalvern]

I hate shopping. I hate it on general principle. But I hate it even more when we're not shopping for anything we want, but stuff we're obligated to buy because of other people. Like how we had to go out today and buy a whole bunch of new special bedding, because the SO's mother doesn't want to sleep on the cheap stuff we use.

Now, admittedly this didn't cost us anything, because a year ago she gave us money to buy new bedding. But since we were perfectly happy sleeping on the cheap stuff, and frankly had better things to spend hundreds of dollars on, we didn't bother. Sadly, her arrival is imminent, and we had to spend our entire afternoon searching for things that might meet with her approval.

And it was bloody annoying. And my time is worth more than this.

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[imre-nico.livejournal.com]

Je commiserate, ma soeur.

We spent all day at Flower World, a 15-acre nursery in in exhilarating Maltby, which is located directly behind God's left nutsac. But that was to buy cool statues and black stemmed bamboo and hibiscus for our lanai, so you win the blue ribbon in the suck day division, cuz it always blows to shop for other people's neuroses. >_<

And what, I ask, is wrong with cheap bedding? You're gonna be asleep for all the time you'll actually be close enough to care.

Really, I'm having a hard time imagining how such an uptight mom could have spawned such a pleasant laid-back cool guy as your S.O.

XD

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Haha, this would have been FUN for me. Next time, give me a wad of cash and a preferred color and let me go wild. I LOVE shopping for sheets.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Are you getting graded both on your choice of thread count and on whether SO's mother-in-law's bedding would pass the Martha Stewart test? And how long do you have to put up with visitors?

You have all my sympathy - I thank the powers that be that my in-laws and parents are not like that. (esp since our decorating scheme is Starving Grad Student.)

tips tips tips - laughs

[kendokat.livejournal.com]

It is rough sometimes having to be the dutiful 'daughter-in-law'. . . one learns first hand how the hubby's mom likes things. *chuckles* we've all been there done that. But just look at it as something that meets with your approval first in terms of quality, color and design. And she should be happy that it is clean and new for her.

And yeah I slept on futons for many years on the floor and then graduated to the futon mattress on the futon frame, and finally a real bed. The funny thing about furniture is . . . we sat on the floor so many years if we listened to music or watched the television that when we finally got real nice furniture . . LAUGHS . . . well we STILL sit on the floor and lean up against the leather couch. The leather couch is pretty to look at but ya slide off the dang thing. Moral to the story is do the things that make you comfortable and when family or guest come just offer them a cleaner house but still your style. ^____~