Today, I'm staying with my in-laws. I'm obsessive about cleanliness and neatness. They're candidates for a certain show about hoarders. I want to shower in bleach. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, my in-laws kept mocking me for being "too clean" because I take a shower every day. They think I'm weird and kept saying things like, "Be careful when you hug your daughter, she might squeak!" and calling me names like "water-wasting bitch." They haven't stopped all day. FML
Today, I was formally diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. My mom saw this as an excuse to make me clean the whole house top to bottom, because "Hey, you love to clean." FML
Today, I'm watching a TV show about horrible germs in hotel rooms that you can catch from a bed... while I am stuck in a hotel room... on the bed. FML
Today, I was cleaning, anticipating my hypercritical in-laws coming to see our new house. Literally 10 minutes before they arrived, sewage backed up the basement drain. My father-in-law spent the entire visit commenting on the smell, and how he couldn’t use the washroom. FML
Today, my very sheltered girlfriend decided to surprise me by cleaning our apartment. Although she grew up with housekeepers and maids, I thought it was common knowledge that you don’t try cleaning the bathroom with both bleach and ammonia. We still can’t go back inside our place. FML
Today, I hired a cleaner to clean my apartment so when my in-laws visited tonight, they wouldn't think I was lazy. I got home from work, the cleaner hadn't shown at all, and my in-laws had arrived early. My mother-in-law is now mopping the floors. FML
Today, my mom's obsession with cleanliness hit a new low when she bitched at me for having trash in my trash can. FML
Today, after losing my job, my apartment and my man, I had to move back in with my mom, at 37. She’s a total slob; I can’t function without clean, organized spaces. So, hey, at least I have a new full-time job now: cleaning up after her. FML
Today, I've got two family members over to stay. So far, I have found a dirty Q-Tip, a nasty toe nail and had to clean up period blood from toilets, bin, and the floor. FML
Today, like every time I visit the in-laws, my father-in-law is driving me crazy. He gets all holier than thou sometimes, and even my mother-in-law agrees he just talks to hear himself speak. It gets so bad that I resort to cleaning their house to ignore him. At least then he leaves me alone. Starting their dishes in 5. FML
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alex_gen 39
I'll stay tuned for your episode OP!
allykaymorris 24
I like to watch Hoarders... Makes me feel better about my messy room.
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Comments (17)
goozeo 11
Are they literally candidates for an episode? Let us know when to tune in haha
mnshdw818 3
I stayed with a relative once when I was visiting from out of state. While I really appreciate them letting me stay, it was a psychologically traumatic experience. The house was filthy. It was impossible to discern the color the 30 year old carpet was supposed to be. It was actually black in high traffic areas. The smell was awful- indoor cigarette smoking and trash that was rotting in the kitchen. The bed my daughter and I shared had mismatched dirty sheets. I couldn't sleep for fear of bedbugs or lice. There was junk piled everywhere. There were car door panels in the living room piled on top of other junk. The floor in the shower felt like I was going to fall thru and the mold and mildew was overpowering. I had to hunt thru laundry baskets in the living room for towels. My mother was a hoarder, so I know this probably stems from that upbringing. I also know my obsession with cleanliness and organization comes from being surrounded by chaos growing up.
LyricaSilvan 30
I know the bleach-shower is tempting, but don't do it. The chemical burns will only hurt more when exposed to garbage.
Junkiegamer 26
Did you know beforehand? If so why did you stay there and not get a hotel room
Rabite 28
I would still differentiate between hoarders and just filthy people. I know some hoarders, too, but their flat is just full with stuff and not really dirty. I am more afraid to get buried under their stuff and never be found than being disgusted.
caleb1204 3
I know how that is, Im currently staying with my in-laws who are the exact same way, except to make matters worse my father-in-law hates my guts (for no reason) and is constantly saying that im stealing from him or giving some other kind of excuse as to why he hates me. The man even tried to bring me 4 states away and leave me there all because he overheard my conversation with a friend of mine who wanted my partner and I to move up there, but not bring my partner just me.