She likes to use the excuse of "the skin on my fingers are peeling so much so that it can get very painful" to avoid doing housework. And so, all she does at home is watch TV, eat and sleep.
Fine, I thought in the beginning, if she has a problem with her skin, I can do the housework since I am also staying with them (my father-in-law too, but he's okay), under their roof.
But recently it has come to a point where I think her skin excuse is just one lousy piece of crap.
To start off, she likes to tell me what to do (in terms of keeping the house clean) as if she is actively cleaning, wiping, mopping away everyday whereas I am not doing anything..
No.1 - Ants.
The ants are found crawling about on the kitchen counter and the sink and they are increasing in numbers, so MIL told me:"sweet food or any kind of food for that matter are to be thrown directly into the chute, not into the bin placed near the chute."
I still see her throwing yogurt cup, dabao food, potato chips bag and all sorts of food junk in the bin!
No.2 - Kitchen sink
MIL says to me "kitchen sink has to be wiped dry after using lest the sink surface turns rusty" (theirs is the old type HDB sink used since day one and already there are a few rusty spots)
She always washes up at the kitchen sink in the morning, happily splashing water on her face & in that process, all over the sink & nope, she doesn't wipe the sink dry after that! I strongly believe she expects me to do it because there is this morning when I PURPOSELY did not want to clean up after her and I saw that she walked over to the sink on the excuse (or maybe not) of pouring herself a glass of water and upon seeing the sink surface still wet, her forehead frowned a little.
No.3 - Bathroom hair trap (this is the part which really pisses me off enough to rant in this thread!!!)
"Pick up the hair on the trap when done bathing" says MIL.
She doesn't do it. She will only do so IF she washes her hair. If not, she.does.not.do.it. Like it's only when she washes her hair that you will see a cluster of them in the trap, no hair wash, no hair drop. Oh pleeeeeease! Just today after my bathe, I had to pick up a ball of hair that had been left lying on the trap for 3 full bloody days because I just refused to clean on day one, waiting to see who would do it. Why should I? I was the last to bathe and that shit was already there. FIL maybe can't be bothered, MIL didn't clear them, hubby assumed I would do it. And so it was me to clean up that bloody 3 days' shit. So much for the "Pick up hair on the trap when done bathing" rule. Who says skin peel can't pick up hair from trap?! Ever heard of a fantastic invention called gloves? Gloves that can also do wonders such as wash dishes, mop the floor, clean toilet WITHOUT hurting your peeling skin!
And there are other rules.. Now, I have no problem of any sorts doing the housework if she stops picking on me. (yes, only me because it's when hubby is not around that she'll start telling me her "keep the house clean" manual 101.) By telling me what I must do and what I mustn't do but she not doing the same, whatever rules to me, they're all crap. Really? You want to keep your house clean? Crap.
And sometimes the way she tells me things, followed by some make up lame demo, it's as if she's talking to an idiot. She doesn't understand that it is her who is acting like an idiot. Like I need to have a visual to understand what she's saying. How lame is that?
Complained to hubby about MIL. All he says is to bear with it for the time being until we get our flat, then everything will be okay. Alright fine, I don't want a confrontation between son and mother anyway. Really hoping for "then everything will be okay" to happen.
And nope, I don't want PIL to move in with us. Period.
Fine, I thought in the beginning, if she has a problem with her skin, I can do the housework since I am also staying with them (my father-in-law too, but he's okay), under their roof.
But recently it has come to a point where I think her skin excuse is just one lousy piece of crap.
To start off, she likes to tell me what to do (in terms of keeping the house clean) as if she is actively cleaning, wiping, mopping away everyday whereas I am not doing anything..
No.1 - Ants.
The ants are found crawling about on the kitchen counter and the sink and they are increasing in numbers, so MIL told me:"sweet food or any kind of food for that matter are to be thrown directly into the chute, not into the bin placed near the chute."
I still see her throwing yogurt cup, dabao food, potato chips bag and all sorts of food junk in the bin!
No.2 - Kitchen sink
MIL says to me "kitchen sink has to be wiped dry after using lest the sink surface turns rusty" (theirs is the old type HDB sink used since day one and already there are a few rusty spots)
She always washes up at the kitchen sink in the morning, happily splashing water on her face & in that process, all over the sink & nope, she doesn't wipe the sink dry after that! I strongly believe she expects me to do it because there is this morning when I PURPOSELY did not want to clean up after her and I saw that she walked over to the sink on the excuse (or maybe not) of pouring herself a glass of water and upon seeing the sink surface still wet, her forehead frowned a little.
No.3 - Bathroom hair trap (this is the part which really pisses me off enough to rant in this thread!!!)
"Pick up the hair on the trap when done bathing" says MIL.
She doesn't do it. She will only do so IF she washes her hair. If not, she.does.not.do.it. Like it's only when she washes her hair that you will see a cluster of them in the trap, no hair wash, no hair drop. Oh pleeeeeease! Just today after my bathe, I had to pick up a ball of hair that had been left lying on the trap for 3 full bloody days because I just refused to clean on day one, waiting to see who would do it. Why should I? I was the last to bathe and that shit was already there. FIL maybe can't be bothered, MIL didn't clear them, hubby assumed I would do it. And so it was me to clean up that bloody 3 days' shit. So much for the "Pick up hair on the trap when done bathing" rule. Who says skin peel can't pick up hair from trap?! Ever heard of a fantastic invention called gloves? Gloves that can also do wonders such as wash dishes, mop the floor, clean toilet WITHOUT hurting your peeling skin!
And there are other rules.. Now, I have no problem of any sorts doing the housework if she stops picking on me. (yes, only me because it's when hubby is not around that she'll start telling me her "keep the house clean" manual 101.) By telling me what I must do and what I mustn't do but she not doing the same, whatever rules to me, they're all crap. Really? You want to keep your house clean? Crap.
And sometimes the way she tells me things, followed by some make up lame demo, it's as if she's talking to an idiot. She doesn't understand that it is her who is acting like an idiot. Like I need to have a visual to understand what she's saying. How lame is that?
Complained to hubby about MIL. All he says is to bear with it for the time being until we get our flat, then everything will be okay. Alright fine, I don't want a confrontation between son and mother anyway. Really hoping for "then everything will be okay" to happen.
And nope, I don't want PIL to move in with us. Period.
