Meme2six

My MIL is the best. Even though I'm divorced from her son, she is still my "mom" and I love her dearly. When I married, she still had six kids at home and the last thing she would have been was critical of my housekeeping.

gigi4419

Me!

Marge L.

My mom was a cleaning fanatic. My mil was an exact opposite and always sticking her big nose in ours and everyone elses business. Always hoped I could be a mil like I didn't have. 'nough said.

QuiltingTurtle

My mother in law is a jewel. Good thing since we share a duplex! Neither one of us would win awards with our housekeeping. But if my mom ever dropped by I'd probably be cleaning for weeks....good thing she lives 2500 miles away.

QuiltnLady1

My was FIL -- MIL was easy to please but he was a bear. He would check the top of the door frame for dust, so when he came I would give him a dust cloth and tell him since he could reach it, he could dust it (I need a step stool to get up there). After the first couple of times, he asked for the dust cloth.

valsma

I don't, my MIL is deceased. Has been for a number of years now. I will tell you even when she was with us, I didn't worry. We didn't have that issue to worry about.

mary quite contrary

I have two sons-in-law and they have a wonderful MIL.

teacherbailey

I'm a pack rat and she....well, she throws out last month's magazine when this month's arrives, whether she's read it or not....and that was on her ONE magazine subscription! She passed away earlier this year, 10 years after her DS and I divorced. She was the very loving mom to me that I needed and never had.....so I never had to worry about cleaning. She accepted me for who I was and understood.

ButtermilkMama

My MIL's housekeeping left much to be desired and she understood that I worked out in the barn and fields so she neveer said anything. My mom was also a farmwife and also understood my not so clean house, all the time.

momto5

My philosophy for the last fifty years has been..."Quilting forever...housework,.........whenever"...and anyone who knows me knows that I'm sincere; that included my now departed MIL.
So no, no worries when she came to visit.