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| Fri, 12-08-2006 - 6:08pm |
MIL is a complete and utter snoop. Not only does she feel that she has the right to go through our things, she has this uncontrollable urge to broadcast our lives. I feel like asking, “Is your life that empty that need to speak of others?”
To give an extreme example, DH and I got pregnant. But since we weren’t trying (at that time, and we were using protection) I thought I was merely late. Not a big deal, many women are late at least once in their lives. We went out with the family for dinner, and I had a sip of wine for the toast. Real crappy wine, so one sip was barely tolerable. Later that week I got my period, a few days later I had a check up with my GYN. She asked if my period had been unusually heavy and when I told her it had been, she informed me that I had had a miscarriage.
So I had to have a D & C scheduled. Some how MIL saw the hospital bill (she had to open a drawer to find it, as we do not keep things like bills out). So MIL had told the cashier at the market that I had gotten drunk while pregnant and lost the baby. And it’s a good thing that that happened as she did not want a grandchild with FAS. I knew this because, a couple of weeks after this, I was in the store with MIL and this cashier comes up to me and starts running her mouth (as if it’s any of her concern) about my situation, and how I shouldn’t drink while pregnant. MIL’s thing was she (this woman from the store) is ‘only trying to help’. There was no way that this person would know anything about our situation, as I would have to reason to get into a personal conversation with her, so to me it was clear that MIL told her. I know that I never told MIL about the situation, and I asked DH not to tell, and he promised that he didn’t. So it’s obvious that she snooped. DH thought that I was blowing thing out of proportion and he believed her when she said that she didn't.
I had actually made a mis-statement about something on the hospital bill, and she corrected me! Than claims that she ‘might have glanced at it”. Yeah, page 3, 4 paragraphs down, you’d have to had turned pages to have glanced at that.
So I decided to make sure that she wouldn't do it again. I photo-shopped head shot-photos of DH and I with OTHER people (from really smutty magazines) and left the photos along with some really raunchy 'sex toys' in my side table drawer.
That was last month, over T-giving. We haven’t seen her since.

Way to go~~I've caught my MIL snooping thru our tax stuff (my dh owns his own business, so in January I have to clean off our formal dinning room table to get everything ready~~)2 years ago, she was standing there looking at stuff that was none of her business. I was thinking about getting a bankrupcy paperwork & leaving that out for her to look over. LOL
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Kaze,
An interesting and humorous way to "surprise" your snopping MIL. Glad it worked. But here's my question, why is she allowed into your home and rooms into your home when she literally has to open drawers to "find" stuff? If she has a key to your house, confiscate it and change the locks. Don't give out copies to your family.
And do yourselves a favor: put locks on
Hi Kazenjammer, welcome!
I'm glad to see that you were able to cure MIL of snooping so far. Also, you might want to make up a fake sex journal and leave it in a drawer somewhere. Make up all kinds of stuff in it. That would be great!
Or photo shop pictures of *her* on someone else's body. If she found *that*, who would she tattle to?
Or the above, with a little note reminding her of the inappropriateness of snooping.
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